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Redirect Sony Vegas to find audio plugins in new folder
Hey guys,
I reinstalled Vegas 9 to a new hard drive because I have two hard drives, one 250 GB that I run Windows 7 on, and a 2 TB hard drive that I use for my programs (I use internal hard drives in external enclosures to keep all my video files and Vegas files on).
When I moved all the audio plugins from the 250 GB hard drive to the 2 TB one, each time I open a Vegas project I get a message that says “An error occurred while loading a plugin. The plug-in(s) specified are not installed on this system.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track Noise Gate’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track EQ’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track Compressor’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track Noise Gate’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track EQ’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
Plug-in: ‘Sony Track Compressor’ failed to load. Please make sure the plug-in is properly installed.
How do I redirect Vegas to the new folder I put them in?
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Those are the basic plugins that are installed when you install Vegas.
Try installing Vegas again and see if that fixers things. -
I might try that, but I need to know what to change when I install it this time to direct it to the plugins in a new folder. It automatically puts them on the smaller C drive even though I set it to install on the larger E drive.
Edit: I guess what’s getting me is, there should be some way to just tell Vegas where the plugins are now, shouldn’t there? For now I’ll put it back in the original location on the C drive, but let me know if there’s a way to put it back on the E drive and redirect Vegas to it. Thanks.
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“I guess what’s getting me is, there should be some way to just tell Vegas where the plugins are now, shouldn’t there?”
I stand to be corrected but, with the default FX, I don’t think there is.
VST plugins go into a separate folder that can be placed anywhere but I don’t think you can do that with the default ones.
BTW, doing what you’re doing (installing Vegas to a location other than drive C) isn’t recommended.
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Eh, I might just install it back on the C drive. It’s just been inexplicably filling up to the point where it’s gone from having around 10 GB of free space for a few months to about 7.8 GB in the last few days. I know something is doing it, whether it’s the anti-virus or system restore, so I wanted to free up some space because I can’t find where on the C drive all this hard drive space is being taken.
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“it’s gone from having around 10 GB of free space for a few months to about 7.8 GB in the last few days”
What else do you have on there besides Windows 7?
My drive C is a 200 gig model and I still have 130 gigs free with several programs installed on it.
Make sure that you go through Vegas and DVDA and change the locations of the various Temp folders to your E drive.
C is the default and a lot of users forget to change them which can fill a drive up in a real hurry if you’re not careful. -
Microsoft Office, ESET antivirus, Windows Media Player, Roxio, Adobe Acrobat, a few messenger programs like Windows Messenger, and a few other programs related directly to those and all the Microsoft Office Suite, but nowhere near the 240 GB or so that is taking up my C drive that I can tell. Most of these are no more than 50 MB.
I’m not sure if I ever changed those temp folders before for Vegas, but when I reinstalled it on my E drive I did. I know the explanation for putting Vegas on the same hard drive as your OS and then putting video files on a separate hard drive, but I figure I’m basically doing the same thing if I keep my video files on yet more separate hard drives as I do now.
Oh, and before I did have DVD Architect and Cyberlink’s Blu Ray burner on my C drive, which I’m going to install on the E drive.
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At the risk of repeating things you already know and do.
For Vegas:
File – Properties – Video – Prerendered files folder.
File – Properties – Audio – Recorded files folder.
Options – Prefs – General – Temporary files folder.
Make sure the defaults for all the above point to something other than drive C.Tools – Clean up Prerendered video – Delete all prerendered video files.
For DVDA:
Options – Prefs – Burning.
Make sure the “Default Prepare folder” and “Temporary files folder” point to something other than drive C. -
Good tips. I wasn’t aware of the “Clean up prerendered video” information.
Thanks for the info. At some point I suppose I’ll just have to get a larger hard drive to run Windows.
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[Angelo Mike] “At some point I suppose I’ll just have to get a larger hard drive to run Windows.”
This is the only solution. For years I tried to run my PC with only the OS on the C: drive and all applications on the D: drive and almost all applications needed to put something on the C: drive in order to work properly. In Sony’s case, the plug-ins are shared between all of their software (Vegas, ACID, & Sound Forge) so they are placed in a common folder. I finally gave up and bought a 640GB C: drive and just install all of my apps on that. It never worked out having two drives. Windows just isn’t designed for it.
Also, it makes no sense to keep your applications on a separate drive. If your OS crashes, you still have to re-install everything anyway because everything is tied to the Windows registry. What I do is set up Acronis TrueImage to create a daily incremental backup of my C: drive to a folder on my 2TB D: drive. Then if anything goes wrong, I can restore back to any day of the week for a whole month. Then every month, I copy the files to off-line storage and create a new backup set for that month. I can and have done a bare metal restore without any problems. That means you can buy a larger hard drive, and put it in are restore everything to the new larger drive and in about an hour you are up and running again with a larger drive.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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My guess would be that your TEMP folder is getting pretty full.
Disk drives are ridiculously cheap these days, you can buy a Seagate 2TB drive at Micro Center for $60. If you use the migration program that comes on a CD with the disk drive, then you probably won’t have to reinstall any programs.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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