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VMS Trial – does it have everything in the purchased version?
I’ve been using the “Try Before You Buy” versions Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 and DVD Architect Studio 4.5 for a couple weeks. I like them and have ordered the retail boxed Movie Studio Platinum 9 from Amazon.
In many trial programs that I have tried in the past, the trial version was not quite the same as the paid-for version. The trial may lack certain functionality, or more often, did not contain all the content included with the purchased version (menu templates, sample audio and video clips, etc.)
Is this true of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, in which case I should uninstall the trials and install the purchased version? Or can I simply enter the serial numbers from the boxed version into the trial and not be missing anything?
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You should be able to just add your serial number to the trial to unlock it’s full potential. I believe the only difference are any features that require licensing of 3rd party software like certain codecs. You will probably get a content CD with the boxed version that wasn’t in the trial download as well.
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Thanks. That’s good news. I’m looking forward to being a Vegas Movie Studio Platinum user after a year and a half of using a competing product.
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I received the retail package today from Amazon, entered the serial numbers into the trial versions, and registered with Sony. The installation CD has a folder named “Content”. It contains four sub-folders: Borders, Illustrations, Music, Title Cards.
By searching the hard drive, I confirmed that the files in these folders do not currently exist on my hard drive, so the VMS and DVDA trials did not install them. I can’t figure out where to copy these files to in order to make them available to the programs.
Running the installation program does not provide an option to install content only. I clicked on the menu option to “Install VMS” just to see if it would then give me an option to install content only. It didn’t. It said VMS is already installed so if I want to re-install it, I should first remove the current installation.
I’d rather not uninstall and re-install because I would loose my settings, but as far as I can tell this is the only way I will be able to get the content installed in the proper location so VMS and/or DVDA can use them.
Unless someone knows which VMS/DVDA folders I should copy the CD’s content folders/files to?
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Unless someone knows which VMS/DVDA folders I should copy the CD’s content folders/files to?
Copy them anywhere you’d like. This is your content. You can navigate to where ever you copied them to use them in Movie Studio. Over time, you might buy more content from companies like Digital Juice, or Art Beats, or downloaded from the Internet. It’s a good idea to keep all of this content on one location like a library. So pick any place you’d like. VMS doesn’t care.
~jr
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Thanks. I thought perhaps some of the content, such as the “borders” were intended to appear internally on the program menus so they could be used by DVDA in DVD menus. Similar to the way transitions appear on the MVS transitions menu. And I was not familiar with the .pca extension of the music files in the content folder of the CD.
Turns out the .pca files seem to be a proprietary Sony music format, but can added to the time line just like an .mp3 or .wav. I was hoping they would be files that VMS could use to automatically adjust the duration of the music to fit the length of the video, with a proper ending, as opposed to just manually fading it out or looping it. (Similar to what the SonicFire product does with SmartSounds. And I think maybe that is what Cinescore does but it is no longer included with VMS like it used to be.)
Based on your message, since all these content files are just media files that can be imported and added to the time line, I will copy them to the hard drive in an organized location, as you suggested.
Thanks again. I really appreciate your help. I’ve learned a lot already about MVS Platinum from reading forums, and from UTube video tutorials. But there is still a lot to learn. This product has an amazing amount of functionality for $75.
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