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Videoon 4/25/2017
Titles & Text Presets Not Working for me in Vegas Pro
@matthias-krutz was the one up above that put me on to the possibility of the issue being a problem involving .NET Fortunately, this time, the fix was pretty easy. Usually, it takes days of digging to find someone else with my same problem :-)
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Videoon 4/24/2017
V14 crashes during mp4 -> mpeg2 encode
One consideration for random crashes when doing things like video rendering is cooling. Make sure both the CPU and video card are not clogged with dust and/or pet hair. I have to clean mine regularly. I even found a bug in it the other day ... a moth was stuck in the cooling fins of my CPU. Random crashes can often be a heat issue. mikey
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Videoon 4/24/2017
Titles & Text Presets Not Working for me in Vegas Pro
I should have mentioned - windows 7/64, 12GB memory. I did notice that windows did some sort of additional update to the .NET framework last night while I was sleeping and rebooted my machine. Everything still seems to be working OK. I was one of those that got bitten by M$ with their routine where they re-defined the "X" on the update to 10 dialog box to confirm installation of 10 instead of killing the dialog. It rebooted right in the middle of imaging my C drive - fortunately I was watching when it happened and killed the 10 install (then found the "never10.exe" utility that prevents it from doing it again!! ) I like 7 mostly mikey
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Videoon 4/23/2017
Titles & Text Presets Not Working for me in Vegas Pro
OK, so I checked my system and it showed I had .NET Framework 4.6.01055 installed. Ran the download and install web updater for 4.6.2 from Microsoft (which took a while and then rebooted). It shows I now have 4.6.01590 installed (a newer version of 4.6.1) NOT 4.6.2, HOWEVER, that did fix the text and titles animation issue as near as I can tell. Not sure why I am not showing 4.6.2 of some flavor since that was what it was supposed to install. To check the version of .NET Framework you are running, open a cmd window and run the following: reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\full" /v version (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565434/how-do-i-find-the-net-version for more info). mikey
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Videoon 4/23/2017
Titles & Text Presets Not Working for me in Vegas Pro
I had the same issue after installing build 252 (the latest). With build 211 (what I had initially installed), when you went to "Media Generators" --> "Titles and Text", the various title options were animated. With the latest build (252), you can hold the mouse over one of the text types and the progress bar for that one will indicate it is working, but nothing shows in the text itself (which did work in 211). The ones I inserted in my timeline also are not animated any more. Transitions still seem to work as expected though. [edit] - I also tried turning off/on the GPU acceleration under the video options (as well as checking the box to "allow legacy GPU rendering" under the General options with no effect on the problem). I had not changed anything since using build 211 where it did work as expected. mikey
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Videoon 4/21/2017
Vegas Pro v 14 Prompts new update available, but it is Build 252
OK, after finding another thread where they talked about build 244 (with the notification window), I downloaded and installed build 244 which then when starting prompted me to install build 252 which I did. As others have observed, then 252 informs me there is a new build, but when I click install, it wants to download the 252 build again. Oh well, at least I am caught up now - 211 was what I had installed when Magix first sent me the links and keys for my new version. Aint technology wonderful????? :-)
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Videoon 4/21/2017
Vegas Pro v 14 Prompts new update available, but it is Build 252
Hmm - I have Vegas Pro 14.0 build 211 (64 bit) installed and it is not telling me anything about an update being available. Am I missing something (it is activated on this PC)?
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Videoon 8/3/2016
Last Minute ?
Hmmm. Now you guys have me concerned - I got the email about 13+14 and ordered the upgrade July 31 at 4:30 PM Seattle time, but now I notice that the order receipt I got indicates it is "08/01/2016 Europe/Berlin" ( I had not realized they were in Germany until the order tripped the alert from my bank about "outside the US"). Hopefully, I will still get 14 mikey
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Videoon 7/13/2016
WOT: Apple Support Rant
The fact that it can go from 100% to black screen/dead almost instantly rules out the charger. If it was really 100%, it would be good for quite a while even without charging. It almost sounds like a bad connection for it to fail like that - try turning it on and shaking it or twisting the case slightly. See if that causes the failure. It may also (as others suspected) be a bad battery, but the 100% to dead rules out the charger itself as a problem. Also do a Google search on the problem - ran into a similar issue a few years ago with my daughters cell phone - turn it off and it would go dead in 8 hours or so. Verizon insisted there was no problem, but Google turned up quite a bit of comments about the problem including on Verizons own site - seems it was a design error that caused much higher battery drain when it was off than when it was on. Took the printouts of the documented problems and the measurements others had taken of the problem into the Verizon store, asked to see the manager and showed him the 30+ pages of documentation of the problem. He gave us a new phone, agreeing it was a problem ... yea!!! mikey
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Videoon 7/13/2016
"Older versions will be activate-able for 5 years"
I don't really have a problem with software that needs to "phone home" once for activation (and limits the number of activations without calling the vendor to get the number adjusted). That helps cut down on the "escaped" serial number that gets passed around to hundreds of people. I don't like the ones that have to "phone home" each time they start or every month etc. and I am NOT going to support Adobe and others with their subscription/ransom model. CS6 is my last Adobe purchase (I have purchased about 5 versions previous to that as upgrades). I realize you can't do much about the determined pirates, but controlling the number of activations for a given serial number is not that intrusive and I can certainly understand the vendors concern. There definitely is a problem determining that point between pissing off the loyal, legitimate customers and slowing down the pirates (you will never stop them). mikey
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Videoon 7/13/2016
OT: Delaying Windows 10 update downloads
" If that seems to work OK, I will be brave enough to change my wife's machine as well." -- smart man - I too am very careful about breaking wife's machine - I will take my main system down before breaking hers :-) I have fixed my win7/64 machine so it will never install windows 10 (although I can change that, no more surprise "install" from Lord Microsoft like they did when they redefined the code for the "try windows 10" window a while back so that when you clicked the "X" on the window, you were accepting the install .... grrrrrrrrrr !! mikey
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Videoon 7/10/2016
Vagas Pro 13 + 14 Free ($200) Email Offer
I had a go around with the bank a while back when I went to purchase another year of antivirus from F-Protect. The bank blocked the card. I called the bank to find out what was going on and the lady I talked to asked if I had tried to purchase anything in Sweden recently. I said "no" and she indicated someone was trying to use it in Sweden. A bit more questioning on my part and she said they were in Reykjavík. I pointed out that was in Iceland, not Sweden and was an expected charge for my antivirus. "Oh .... ok, I will release the card lock". On the other hand, we have had cases of some very strange attempted charges in foreign countries that are obviously bogus too. mikey
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Videoon 7/10/2016
Magix reveals an elegant solution
The key difference though is that at the end of the year, if you don't pay for the upgrade, it continues to work at the level it was at at the end of the year. That is why I have purchased "upgrades" to a number of different software I use - support the company. The C compiler I use for PIC chips (CCS) uses the same model of you get a year of updates when you purchase either the compiler or a year of support. At the end of the year, it continues to function at the level it was at that time leaving you with a working product instead of a bad taste in your mouth. The slideshow software I use (Photodex Proshow) uses a similar model. I support those companies because they try to actually support the users instead of just their bottom line. What's more, both CCS and Photodex have a functional tech support system where you actually get a response from them in a very timely manner working to solve problems !! I'm still REALLY hacked off at M$ for their routine a month or two back where they redefined the "X" on the pop-up window "suggesting" you install windows 10 - they redefined the "X" to confirm the install instead of just close the window. Win 7/64 is working very nicely for me and I am not interested in their underhanded forced install routine. Fortunately, when it tried to install windows 10, I was in the process of imaging my C drive when the install closed the backup window (killing the backup) and logged me out. I was able to hit reset fast enough to avoid the install. If I had not been watching (and walked away to let the backup run like I normally do, it would have installed W10 for me (as a "special favor")
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 7/4/2016
We have a timeline for V14!
It is interesting that while I have both MS as well as Vegas Pro (version 12), both registered, I did receive an email about the Vegas Pro update offer, but have seen nothing about the Movie Studio update information. mikey
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Videoon 7/4/2016
Vagas Pro 13 + 14 Free ($200) Email Offer
Interesting - I have MS 13 Platinum, but have not received any email from them (yes, it is registered). I did get the upgrade notice for Vegas Pro (I have VP 12 I never installed because of all the complaints - still have 10 installed). Checked the spam folder on Comcast and there were a couple of things caught there, but nothing on MS. Maybe it is still "in the mail" :-) mikey
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Videoon 7/4/2016
POLL - Should MAGIX change the name?
How about "vegi-magix" (from the Vegematic food processor) :-) I never equated Vegas with the city - I tend to think the correct pronunciation of the city is "Lost Wages" :-) mikey
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Videoon 7/4/2016
Forum Backup
Who is "they" in the "they will not sell" - I believe Widetrack was asking about Magix getting in some LEGAL way the forums from Sony so these could continue basically "as is" - if "they" is Sony and they won't sell, that is an issue, but if Magix is "they" then Magix does have the option of continuing the forums as they are. It would definitely be a real loss for all of this knowledge and information to simply vanish into the "bit bucket" (or /dev/nul for you Unix folks ... ) and it would certainly be to Magix advantage to keep this information available for their new/adopted user base. mikey
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 12/5/2015
SCS Catalyst Browse software
Does anybody have any additional information on that (Catalyst Browse) - if you go to the Sony site you can download it but not much information. I have some old video clips captured with a Matrox Rainbow Runner (Mjpeg) that I am having issues trying to work with. mikey
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 1/6/2014
Legality
What you discover is that the law isn't exact - the one with the best (?) lawyers is the one that wins. Even if you are in the right, it can cost you big $$$ to defend yourself and the "M" and "Mc" of the world do indeed have the slick attorneys. mikey
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Videoon 11/6/2013
WOT: Data recovery Old Drives
As far as having a "third party" handle your credit card stuff. Remember the dot-com bust a while back. Lots of stores and other places simple went away and all their machines ended up surplus. Amazing what information was being found on those machines. It is also a bit frightening to discover some of the "stuff" that ends up in temp folders. The thing to remember is that while you may not know which rock to look under for that info, there are lots of people out there that do know where to look for temp stuff. I once picked up a couple of old Dell GX-150 (pizza boxes) computers at Boeing surplus for use around the house as linux machines. They are all supposed to have the drives wiped and only boot to a DOS prompt. One of them booted up into windows 2k - no telling just what sort of proprietary info it had on it (our IT folks were NOT happy when I told them about it). I wiped it and installed Ubuntu Linux, but how many more managed to end up in the wrong hands (I saw people taking 15 or 20 of them at a time out of the surplus store). As for the printers/fax machines with hard drives, they may be mostly RAM based now, but there are many documented cases of all sorts of information being obtained from surplus machines that had hard drives in them. Lots of them have the ability to buffer faxes and print documents for later printing and this sort of thing - there were indeed lots of them out there with hard drives and many of them ended up surplus and in the wrong hands. When I worked in areas that were "classified", there were a whole bunch of hoops to jump through to get any type of storage media out of that area - failed hard drives got their platters dropped in acid baths etc. mikey
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/23/2013
my videos come out rather bad quality
I did see some of what you were talking about - it looked like where it was most obvious was where there was lots of motion in the video. Motion tends to fall apart if the bit-rate is too low - it can't keep up with all the changes going on then gets sharper when there is little or no motion in the video. You might try bumping the bit rate up and see if that gives you better results ( I saw something the other day where they were pointing out not to shoot a "talking head" for example in front of a tree with the leaves moving in the breeze - the moving leaves will totally eat up the bandwidth. mikey
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Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)on 10/23/2013
Incredible Mystery playing MS 12, MSA Burned disks
Some drives do not like some media (although with the TY premium I have not had any issues). DVDInfoPro should also show you the read speed from the disk - what does it show as you get out near the end where the problems are? When I have run into the "stuttering" type issues, it is typically a case of the player not being able to read the data fast enough to keep up with the video frame rate. You may still get "no read errors", but it may be having to read a sector more than once to get it right. I don't have the current DVDInfoPro - I purchased it with "lifetime updates" when Nick something created it. He then sold it several years ago and so much for "lifetime updates" - I have not felt like paying for it again (yes, I did talk to the new "owners"). Something else you can try - the free VLC player will handle ISO files - try playing the iso of your disk with VLC - does that work good ? If you don't have an ISO, that is the way I normally go - create an ISO instead of direct burning (you just select the option when you select your burner) then use the free (and excellent) Imgburn utility to actually burn the disk(s) mikey
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Videoon 10/11/2013
Velocity Envelopes Not Showing Up
We've all been there - that point half way through explaining the problem to someone else where ..... click ...... Oh duh, never mind :-) mikey
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Videoon 10/11/2013
OT: Mucky Secrets. A new underwater video to share
Very impressive !! That was indeed the perfect music for that - almost a Fantasia feel to it. Really makes me miss my time underwater. mikey
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