Where is "Ignore 3rd Party Codecs"? Has it gone?

Grazie wrote on 12/2/2009, 12:52 AM
OK, this Preference has always confused me. But I'll accept that it refers to files that are not of the Vegas family codecs. That being said, if I THEN render something OUT from Vegas, which does NOT use the house-CODECS and then, 'cos I'm Grazie, then wish to import it BACK into VEgas ( viz Lagarith), and NOT having the Ignore 3rd Party CODECS on/off preference, I am starting to whiff the aroma of a rodent . . . ?

Any help me with my madness? I am starting to get a tightness in my chest over this issue.

I am now wondering if this has bearing on Mike's loss of templates?

Grazie

Comments

farss wrote on 12/2/2009, 1:55 AM
If you rendered something out using a 3rd party codec and enabled Ignore 3rd Party Codecs then logically one could not read the file you just produced, not something one would want. The lack of the switch in this scenario would be a good thing.

I cannot see how it would have any bearing on templates.

Speaking of missing preference switches we also seem to have lost 'Build 8 bit Peak Files'. Having this morning waited 4 hours for peak files to build that is a switch I do miss.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 12/2/2009, 2:06 AM
> The lack of the switch in this scenario would be a good thing.

But NOT having it doesn't allow me to do it either way? If it ain't there how do I know that 3rd Party access is ENABLED? Don't you see that?

Grazie


farss wrote on 12/2/2009, 2:35 AM
"If it ain't there how do I know that 3rd Party access is ENABLED? Don't you see that?"

No. The option switch disables something, taking it away logically means I've lost the ability to "ignore" them. On the other hand if the switch was labelled "Enable" then if taken away I don't have the ability to use them.

If instead of a tick box we had two radio buttons, one labelled Enable and the other labelled Disable then if we lost them then indeed I'd take your line of reasoning and say 'what is going on here, I now have no clue as to the state'.

Of course I'm assuming that the option switch was logically labelled / named and implemented all those years ago. It's certainly strange to have an option vanish without a trace or a word of explaination. As you've shown my assumptions are not universal.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 12/2/2009, 2:36 AM
get on skype now!!! Please

g
Bill Ravens wrote on 12/2/2009, 4:35 AM
Grazie...

Look in PREFERENCES/INTERNAL and do a search for "codec"
Grazie wrote on 12/2/2009, 4:41 AM
Yes Bill. I was there about 2 hours back and got MORE than a few answers to an ongoing issue.

Bill, thank you for taking the timeout to check what I learnt!!!

Grazie
Tom Pauncz wrote on 12/2/2009, 4:50 AM
Hmmm,
I am on 9.0c and I do see the "Ignore third party DV codecs" switch in preferences.
Or am I missing the point here?
Tom
TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/2/2009, 4:55 AM
it's called "ignore 3rd party DV codec's" so I'd assume it would treat all DV (import & export) with the Song DV codec.

but Vegas always used the sony DV codec for import I think, so you needed to manually specify a 3rd party codec for export, so it kind of made little sense. Unless a 3rd party codec can override the sony one.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/2/2009, 5:39 AM
I was wrong. :( Vegas uses a 3rd party codec if it's available. I have two codec's installed (Cedocida & Lagarith). I It used Cedocida over both. No clue why

EDIT: I'm using 8c.
Former user wrote on 12/2/2009, 7:20 AM
That option is "ignore third party DV Codecs". It should not affect anything other than DV AVI codecs.

From my experience, it does not affect any other codecs. I have always left it checked and I can use Lagarath, and HUFFYUV, etc.

Dave T2