VMS 7 in Vista - problems!

feign wrote on 10/26/2008, 5:00 AM
My computer died, so I reluctantly had to get a new one and had no choice but to get Vista. My VMSP 7.0a Platinum installed, and everything seems to work, until I try to prepare a project for burning in DVD Architect 4. I can't prepare to any folder because it says I don't have write access, so I can never get past that step.

I am running it in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode. When I check the properties of any folder I try to prepare a project to, sure enough, the "read only" box has a green square in it. I clear it, attempt to prepare the project again, I get the same error message. Sure enough, the "read only" box again has the square in it. There are 300 GB of free space on my drive, so this is not the problem either.

I've tried it with more than one Vegas project in numerous directories. Always the same problem.

Is this an issue of Vista incompatibility? If so, is there a way around it? There is nothing new in VMS 9 Platinum that inspires me to pay $69 for an upgrade. I'm very happy with version 7 until now.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to overcome this problem?

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 10/26/2008, 5:35 AM
I'm just guessing here, but you could try running DVDA in 'administrator mode' as it is now very likely that you run it in the a normal vista user account.
Instead of normally running DVDA, right-click on it and select 'run as administrator'.
ritsmer wrote on 10/26/2008, 5:47 AM
There is a special forum for Vista http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowTopics.asp?ForumID=41 maybe you can find help searching the posts there.

The good old ver. 7 (I liked it too) is not Vista proof (however good, that it works for you) - nor are many of the codecs, plug ins etc. - nor are probably the surroundings like Virtual Dub, Deshaker etc.

There are many reasons to upgrade to ver. 9 - too many to list here - but, to take a few, every day I use features like keyframing in FX's (came with ver. 8, I think) and the smart colour-thingies you use every time you move media on the time line.

BTW: can't you just throw away that Vista and install your old XP on the new machine ? That might do a lot good - Vegas is probably not the only program, you have, that is stalling because of Vista?
richard-amirault wrote on 10/26/2008, 6:33 AM
My personal experience ...

I bought a new computer with Vista. VMS 6 worked just fine except that it would not recognize my DVD/CD drive. I could render projects, but could not burn anything.

I went with VMS 8 .. supposedly the first version that fully suports Vista.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 10/26/2008, 7:18 AM
Throwing away Vista is not something that ordinary consumers do. One: we paid for it. Two: finding drivers for the latest hardware may be a pain.
I've recently upgraded to a new pc, with Vista Premium, and it is lightning fast, even compared to XP.
So instead of reverting to the obsolete XP, i'd rather advise to upgrade to VMS9.