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Videoon 8/6/2016
Vegas pro 13 hanging at start-up
Have you installed any codecs or other programs recently? That can cause problems from plug-ins that enumerate installed codecs (the avi plug-in does this).
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Videoon 8/4/2016
Using Sony Vegas Pro 13.0 on 4K UHD monitors?
Appears the manifest is in the executable. I looked at the VP 12 executable named vegas120.exe. I opened it in Notepad++ which handles everything much better than the standard notepad. Then I searched for some of the text in manifest.txt that was included in that link from tom (e.g. Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls) and found it. That should help you get farther along. Keep us posted if you can get it to work.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/16/2016
Audio not Working on Video
It's possible that changing the audio resampling settings in your project properties is the problem. Your audio render settings screen capture looks like you are rendering audio at 48,000 Hz (capture is blurry on my computer). If your sound card doesn't support that rate (not all do) and you turned off resampling, it would explain why you hear nothing on playback. Some sound card drivers report back an error to MS when fed audio at an unsupported sample rate and refuse to play it. I know I've seen this behavior on an older computer of mine. Other sound card drivers may just ignore the audio and play back silence.
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Videoon 1/12/2016
Pan/Crop Screen Problem
A red frame means Vegas is having trouble fetching a frame (decoding problem) and it timed out. Some formats such as WMV are terrible as an editing format. Certain WMV clips require decoding starting from the very beginning of the file as each frame depends on the previous frame. You really can't tell which files are like this but I have found that files encoded from live events tend to be like that.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 1/1/2016
Movie Studio 13 and dvd architect WILL NOT INSTALL
To run the installer, right click on the installer EXE and select "Run as administrator" from the popup menu. Does that work?
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Videoon 12/16/2015
Unmanaged Exception Error
Can you play back your entire project without any problems? Does it happen in the same place in your project every time you try to render? If there is a consistent trouble spot, you could try creating a prerender in that area of the timeline. Alternatively, try turning off video thumbnails and/or close the preview window during the render so that the only frames being fetched are for the render and not for the display. Or does the error message come up immediately, right after you start the render? What format are your rendering to? Does it happen if your render to another format?
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Videoon 12/16/2015
Freeze when cut event w/ autoripple while playing
This sounds like a software threading issue (I'm a former software engineer), maybe related to how Vegas handles saving off the undo since you are modifying your project. Perhaps there is some sort of conflict with the playback that is timing dependent (which is why you don't always see it). Does this happen only with MTS files, or all types of video media? Since this problem is relatively reproducible, perhaps Sony developers can reproduce it too. Sony doesn't necessarily monitor this forum closely so can you submit a report to Customer Service and provide a link to this forum thread.
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Videoon 12/14/2015
How about a petition to make Vegas free?
Highly unlikely Vegas would ever be free. Take a look at the formats listed in Render As and Open. Most likely Sony has paid to license many of those codecs, so they are not free: Dolby Digital AC-3, AVC/AAC, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MXF, XAVC, XDCAM, etc. Vegas wouldn't be very useful without them.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 11/17/2015
Movie Studio 13 Freeze during editing
What media type are you editing, and what is the source of the media? You may have a codec issue.
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Videoon 11/5/2015
no folders or files in explorer tab vegas 12
I just posted some things to try in a similar thread for VP 13. Perhaps one of those will work. Explorer window is blank in Vegas Pro 13
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Videoon 11/5/2015
Explorer window is blank in Vegas Pro 13
Some things to try: 1. Have you deleted or moved the folder the Explorer showed the last time it did work? I don't have Vegas Pro 13 and I'm running Windows 8.1, but in VP 12 the explorer settings are in a file named FileExplorer.settings under the local appdata folder. For VP 13 I'd expect it to be here, where <username> is your login name: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Pro\13.0 You'll need to enable the Windows explorer to show hidden items to see the AppData folder, and enable viewing of file extensions. Try renaming the FileExplorer.settings file, then start Vegas. Perhaps it has gotten corrupted. It should be plain text, I am able to drop it into Notepad to view its contents. 2. Do you have any antivirus software running? Try turning it off before starting Vegas. For security you may want to disconnect your computer from the internet by temporarily disconnecting the Ethernet cable or disable the wireless support in Windows before disabling your antivirus software. 3. Have you tried resetting your preferences to see if that will fix it? Hold down Shift+Ctrl when you start the program, Vegas will ask for confirmation.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Lost render templates in Windows 10
On Windows 8.1 the templates are here: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Sony\Render Templates You need to configure the Windows Explorer to show hidden system files and folders as AppData is normally a hidden folder. I recommend backing them up to an external drive or thumb drive first if you plan to upgrade to Windows 10.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Unable to Import Media
That particular message means you need to install QuickTime, or you don't have a version installed that MS will work with. The info on that message box should tell you what version you need.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Need help adding iTunes video to Project (MSP 12)
It's possible the audio in the output AVI file is MP3. You'll need to install a codec for it. A search of the MV and Vegas Pro forums for something like MP3 audio AVI may turn up some suggestions for a codec to install (be sure to back up your system first!). This is NOT the same as handling audio-only MP3 files which MS is able to do. Does the conversion app you are using support PCM audio in the output AVI file? That's what you need. Alternatively, use MS to convert each video file to a format that MS can better handle. In an empty project, add one of your MOV video files and render it out. AVI is a good choice but the files will be quite large. Edit: Or install the VLC player (google it). If your MOV files play fine then save them to another format using Media > Convert / Save. The user interface is a little awkward - first click the Add button to add a MOV file to be converted. Then click the Convert/Save dropdown button and select Convert. Choose the desired profile. You may need to experiment, I used Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4). Set the destination filename and folder, then click Start. Conversion is done in the background so you'll need to wait for it to finish. I never saw a notification it was done but I knew the length of my original video, so I waited until Windows reported the right length when I hovered the mouse over the output filename in the Explorer. If you open a partially converted file in MS it won't write the remainder of the file out so be sure to wait long enough.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Media generator not opening for editing?
.vf files are small because they only contain references to the media (paths and filenames), not copies of it. If you move or delete the media files, Movie Studio will ask you to locate them when you open the project. You are smart to save versions of your MS project to different filenames as you go, so you have a backup if you need it.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
using older veresions of vegas
After installing an older version, be sure to install the latest update, if there is one available. You can find them in the menu at the top of this page, under Support > Software Updates.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Media generator - weird delay when I type?
Thanks, I've edited the text above to include Ctrl+C.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/1/2015
Setting a maximum audio level for all of my video
To set the Master Bus slider level back to its default, double click on the output fader slider thumb. All of the sliders in Movie Studio work this way, double clicking on the thumb returns it to its default. Hope this is what you were asking for when you said: There apparently should be "default Peak Level settings" somewhere. I need help finding or re-creating them.
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/30/2015
Media generator - weird delay when I type?
Yes it is possible copy all events into a new project. First open another instance of Movie Studio. Go back to the instance that contains your project and click in the timeline to give it focus, then Ctrl+A to select all of the events, then Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard. Go to the empty Movie Studio instance, set the cursor to 0 (or wherever you want it to start if you want to add an offset at the beginning), then Ctrl+V to paste everything into the timeline. You'll want to use the same project properties as your original project as those settings are not copied. The markers don't come along, and I don't see a way to copy and paste them. You can copy events on a specific track by selecting the first one and then choose Select Events to End from the context menu. Or use Shift+click to select a range. You didn't mention what version you are using. I'm running Movie Studio Platinum 12. Some older MS versions didn't allow running more than one instance, you'll just have to try it and see. Edit: added missing Ctrl+C (thanks Chienworks!)
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 9/30/2015
Inserting PowerPoint slides into video
You may find WMV isn't a very good editing format. It's really designed for playback in media players. There will also be some quality loss (as there will be with JPEG). If you can output your PowerPoint slides as PNG that would be best.
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Videoon 9/29/2015
What do the semi-transparent lines mean?
Markers are drawn with dotted lines as a reminder that you have turned snapping off, Options > Enable Snapping (or hit F8).
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 8/7/2015
Timeline
Sounds like your timeline may be zoomed up a lot. If I zoom in, then drag and drop a file on top of a clip already on the timeline, it appends the dragged clip to the end of the project. Looks like this happens if the clip being dragged in is so long that it extends beyond the end of the timeline that is visible. Zoom out some more so you can see the full outline of the clip when you drag it into the timeline. If you need to place it precisely, first set the cursor exactly where you want the clip to start, then zoom out, and then drag and drop the clip. While dragging, when the clip is close to the cursor the clip will snap to that location (cursor will light up in yellow). You can zoom in/out in several different ways: 1. Set focus to the timeline (click to set the cursor position or hit Alt+0) then roll the scroll wheel, 2. Drag an end of the horizontal scrollbar beneath the timeline 3. Click the + or - buttons next to the horizontal scrollbar
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 8/6/2015
MS13 OK on WIn10
>> If 13 is like previous versions, they're in the Registry. Some settings such as layouts are on disk under your AppData\Roaming folder (normally hidden in the Windows Explorer). This folder path is displayed in View > Organize Layouts. You can copy the .VegasWindowLayout files to the appropriate path on your new machine and they will show up in the available layouts list in Organize Layouts. I don't advise trying to transfer settings across machines. Machine-specific preferences (paths, hardware settings, etc.) are mixed together with non-specific settings (General, Display, Editing, etc.). You could end up having to reset your prefs anyway just to get Vegas to run. Settings are incompatible across different versions (eg 12 vs. 13), Vegas will ignore them. You'd better spend your time making a list of the settings that you normally customize.
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Videoon 6/24/2015
VEGAS Blu-Ray Template - NO AUDIO
I render the AC-3 file first and wait for it, then I render the video. Then I don't forget to do it.
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