Vegas Pro & Vista

Former user wrote on 9/10/2007, 9:31 PM
First report after a full day of editing: it seems fine. And if your system can handle 32-bit color...ack...go for it. The gain and contrast is worth it. Heck, edit without, and turn it on to render if you have to.

However, annoying niggly thing: every time I shut Vegas Pro down in Vista I get the ever-popular "Vegas 8 has stopped working." No kidding. I just shut the program down. Duh. Anyway, it's an annoying message. I'm wondering if it's just the "entirely different memory handling" that Vista does, or if it's something gacked with Vegas Pro. That said, it doesn't seem to hurt everything, and all my gear seems to work fine.

Titler: fantabulous world beater? No. Functional and funky? Yes. Better than what was there? Definitely. If you want 3D swooshing fly-bys...get a 3D renderer. I mean seriously...I do all my lower thirds and panels in photoshop and import them. The RARE time I get a request for funky mongo 3D craziness, I farm out the work. I'm an editor/producer dammit...not a Pixar wizard. :-P

Comments

Konrad wrote on 9/11/2007, 8:57 AM
Did you run the Render test?

I got 6:22 on a HP A6040N
2 Duo E6320 1.86 GHz
3.49 GB RAM (useable 4 GB installed)
Rendered to 2nd HDD

I'm going to install XP on the 2nd HDD and see if the render test runs faster
blink3times wrote on 9/11/2007, 9:13 AM
I have installed vegs8 on BOTH xp and vista64. An error message occurs on shut down with BOTH os's
Former user wrote on 9/11/2007, 3:22 PM
How do you run a render test? I've never actually tried that. I have a 3.7GHz, 4GB XP system, and the VISTA system is a 2.66GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM.

Is there a formal function or file (which I've never used)?

The crashes don't seem to hurt anything...just annoying.
Kennymusicman wrote on 9/11/2007, 3:26 PM
I don't get any errors (in 32 or 64 WoW)- in fact the only program error I get is Word 2007 (!) on my 32bit partition.