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Can Vegas 9 open and treat Vegas 7e veg. files?
I’m thinking about upgrading and I’m wondering if I can open my Vegas 7 files with Vegas 9?
Thanks
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You certainly can.
Vegas has always been forwards compatible, just not backwards.
Do yourself a favour though and, as soon as you open the 7.0e file, save it under a new name.
This way, you’ll still be able to open the original file in 7.0e. -
Thanks Mike
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Actually it doesn’t work. I’ve just downloaded Version 9b and it can open any kind of video formats, but certainly not the files created by Version 7e that I’m using with the following extension .veg
I had heard somewhere that it was not compatible though,but what you said made me hope for the best. But I guess it’s going to be a bummer. I have noticed already some neat improvement over version 7. For example the preview and playing mode is perfect, even when I choose the BEST option for quality. It plays rough, uncut footage, but it won’t open Vegas 7 projects. Mike, were you sure about this one?
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Phil, you neglected to mention which versions you were talking about, hence the confusion.
9.0b has to be a Movie Studio version as Vegas Pro 9 is still at 9,0.
If 7.0e was Vegas Pro then no, you can’t open it in any version Of Movie Studio.
Vegas Pro can open Movie Studio projects but not vice-versa.
All I can suggest at this point is to open both versions with their respective programs and trying a copy/paste from 7.0e to 9.0b. -
Mike, I’m all set and it works. I had installed Vegas 9 Platinum instead of Pro. How silly!
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Glad you got it resolved Phil.
As soon as you said 9.0b, I knew you weren’t talking about Pro. -
Still crashing though. I get a message saying that the system is low on memory. I believe it’s not. I have ONLY Vegas running, no anti virus,no other application. I have 4 GIG of very good Corsair memory and only the rendering process going on. I have a Q6700, not the best processor around by any means, but I thought it would be enough with 4 Gig or decent Ram to render anything, even if it needs 24 hours?
Always crashes at various places and I have no stills in my time line. Just NEO HDV footage -
Try setting your Dynamic RAM Preview to 128 MB. and your Maximum # of Rendering Threads to 2 or even 1 and see if that helps.
Both of these options are found at the top of the Options > Prefs > Video tab. -
Sure, one more thing to try. Let’s see, I’ll tell you soon.
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Mike,
I followed your advice and it worked. I can now render the full 7 minutes to DVD format. The system still crashes when I try to render to HDV though.
Phil
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