• VEGAS Pro

  Backing up preferences

  Posted by Chris Page on June 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm

  Hi

  I want to know if there is a way i can get the settings i have from Sony Vegas 8 into Sony Vegas 9? Im using Windows Vista 64.

  I have custom render output settings and Special FX settings that i want to backup too?

  Thanks

  -Chris

  Tim Tim replied 13 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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  Mike Kujbida

  June 20, 2009 at 11:20 pm

  All the custom render settings I had in Vegas 6 followed to Vegas 7 and again to Vegas 8 with no problem.
  However, only 1/2 of them (or less) followed to Vegas 9 🙁
  I opened a support ticket (aka bug report) with Sony and didn’t get nay satisfaction so I gave up on it.
  I know I’m not alone as several other users have experienced the same problem.
  One friend (a lot more computer savvy than I am) has opened a support ticket with Sony but I haven’t heard back from him yet.

  If your Special FX settings are part of a chain (i.e. more than one FX), you can use Preset Manager (it’s free) to move them from V8 to V9.
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  Chris Page

  June 21, 2009 at 3:09 pm

  Hi Mike,

  Thanks for posting, I was going to contact Sony myself but thought I would ask here – in case I was over looking something.

  If you hear back from Sony with a response I would really like to hear what they say. And im sure other people out there would too.

  I will give that Preset Manager a go. But another reason I wish to backup all my settings is so when I upgrade my computer. I can copy over all the settings.

  Im sure there must be settings hidden away in the windows User folder or something!!! As them settings must be saved somewhere?
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  Mike Kujbida

  June 21, 2009 at 11:18 pm

  Chris, Sony’s response to my Custom Render preset question was to follow the step in the Knowledgebase article titled How Do I: Recreate your custom presets on Video FX and transitions.

  After me telling them 3 times that it’s custom render presets and not video FX presets that I was having issues with and them telling me to follow this article, I gave up 🙁
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  Chris Page

  July 1, 2009 at 4:22 pm

  Hi Mike,

  Im not to sure what copy of Window your running. But i found where all my presets are in Vista 🙂

  I found they are in fact hidding away in this location

  C:users*Chris*AppDataRoamingSonyFile Templates

  Then in there are all your output render setting and also your templates for FX 🙂

  Now all i need to do is work out how to get them into Vegas 9 hahaha

  Im sure if you made a preset in 9 and tryed to trace that down. You could then just copy these presets over to where SV 9 puts them?

  -Chris
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  Mike Kujbida

  July 1, 2009 at 5:20 pm

  Thanks Chris.
  I’m using XP Pro and, until Vegas 8, they were in
  C:Documents and SettingsMikeApplication DataSonyFile Templates

  With the introduction of Vegas Po 9 though, they’re now in
  C:Documents and SettingsMikeApplication DataSonyRender Templates

  Not only that but the extension has been changed from *.sft to *.sft2

  I’ve tried copying and renaming them but it doesn’t work 🙁
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  James Redmond

  December 23, 2009 at 10:04 pm

  Any solutions to backing up preferences since this was written several months ago? I have the same issue – about 30 rendering preferences from Vegas 8, none read in Vegas 9 after copying them to the rendering folder…

  Thanks!

  James Redmond
  Dynamic Videos, Inc.
  Rogers, AR USA
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  Mike Kujbida

  December 23, 2009 at 11:40 pm

  Sad to say James but nothing yet 🙁
  As a matter of interest, 9.0c made things even worse for me (even less custom presets than with 9.0b).
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  Tim Tim

  October 18, 2012 at 8:59 am

  All your previous Colour correction settings are sitting right over here:

  C:\Users\user\Documents\OFX Presets\com.sonycreativesoftware_colorcorrector\Filter

  😉

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