Premiere Pro 1/5 running in XPMode lost its sound drivers.

[Bob Dix]

I also have Premiere Pro 1.5.1 (IE., with the .1 upgrade for HDV 1440 x 1080 i) However, this may not work for the new codecs, such as H.264 mov and it does have audio.

I tried Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 11 (32 bit)and it has an in built stabilizer, which is only $89 total and is nearly as good as my Premiere Pro CS5.5.2.(64 bit)

I wish you all the best …………….

Ps. It will work using Premiere Pro 1.5.1 and has been for 3 years since we had the Canon EOS 5 D Mark II which uses the H.264 mov codec, but you cannot run this codec natively in 1.5.1 without converting it ????????????? And it handles HDV 1440 x 1080i easily, no audio issues, but, the Premiere Pro 1.5.1 will not run without installing the Windows XP Mode with the Windows Virtual PC ( make sure you have activated it, unless you have organised it automatically) as you will lose files and windows (like monitor and or audio windows)in the application as well as audio ?????
It still runs well with the Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 32 bit with hyper-threading, the fact that you now run an i7 Professional 64 bit should make no difference to the audio. I presume it is a 64 bit > ?
Make sure you have installed the .1 upgrade from Adobe which is still on their web site.

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[Al Bergstein]

On the XP Compatability mode front. Help us by clarifying something. You say you have W7. Under it you installed XP Mode. You also installed a virtual machine. I assume that was parallel to the XP compatibility mode? So you have three OS’s installed on your machine? (W7, XP Compatability Mode with XP installed, and a VM with XP on it. Correct?) Is the sound driver working correctly on *any* of those setups? Was the sound driver working correctly when you installed Premiere and the installation process knocked it out?

The answer might be easier to come to if we understand that. i.e. is all three machines sound driver not working? Or just the XP version? And under which version of XP? Sound drivers are the easiest thing to go wrong, it’s been my experience. We’ll do our best given the limited ability to actually “see” the machine.

Thx.

Al

[Wallace Adrian d’alessio]

XPMode runs inside a Virtual Machine that runs within Win7. It is all long proven very old technology. Nothing new on that front. Just the names and version changes.Big companies do this stuff all the time.

I reiterate, Premiere worked well enough and found the hardware until I upped the RAM allocation.

The only problem is Premiere Pro 1.5 cannot find the Sound drivers when it starts. And every time I try to find an application icon right click panel that has a tab for the sound drivers like I had before that tab is missing. And looking at the icon the way I interpret the MS docs to mean only takes me to a .dll that actually contains the program in a thing titled rundll32 and says it is an application.
The way MS phrases their docs, and you know they have been set in syntax that is meant to just go through translator programs without understandability being checked, Makes it very difficult to discern an exact step by step process and a map of how to get there.

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[Al Bergstein]

From an earlier post on the Internet using a Google Search for audio drivers win7 xpmode

XP Mode, as every Virtual PC virtual machine, can not access or use the hardware components of your host computer (except disks and drives). Instead virtual machines use their own emulated hardware. There simply is no way to change this, to install other sound or video controllers to XP Mode.

The emulated sound card in all vm’s running in Virtual PC is a Soundblaster 16 compatible WDM card, and GPU is S3 Trio.

I assume that information is correct.

I also assume from your comment that the sound card was working, you upped the RAM allocation, and it stopped working, and the driver is no longer present (?). If that is correct, I would reinstall the sound driver in XPmode. If that fails, you may have to reinstall the XPmode to get it back.

I was aware that XPmode was a VM, but could not tell if you were running multiple VMs on the machine.

An aside not related directly related to your problem:
No VM is as good as using a true OS, whether it’s Apple or MSFT. The nature of creating virtuals require emulation of hardware. There is no way to test to all situations, and manufacturers like Adobe rarely ever support VM implementations because of that.

One future suggestion is that I always set a restore point on Windows before making any configuration change or software install. If something goes haywire, restore points allow a quick reversal.

Best of luck.

Al

[Bob Dix]

All I can suggest is that when you changed the RAM something happened, perhaps set it back to what it was ? if the computer is under warranty ask the tech support.
Check the audio icon on the left of the timeline, you may have accidentally clicked it off ?

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[Bob Dix]

Quote:No VM is as good as using a true OS, whether it’s Apple or MSFT. The nature of creating virtuals require emulation of hardware. There is no way to test to all situations, and manufacturers like Adobe rarely ever support VM implementations because of that.

Al, you are probably right, but, all I can say is that after downloading Windows Virtual PC the old premiere Elements 4 ran perfectly in Windows Vista Mode and the 7 year old Premiere Pro 1.5.1 ran perfectly in XP Mode otherwise it said NT6, which lost its files, audio and windows in the new i7 Pro 64 bit.

I have upgraded to CS5.5.2 Premiere Pro and there is a huge difference with the new Mercury acceleration, Wallace may consider this , but, his Virtual PC , XP Mode may not have come out of “hibernation” as we have found with Lotus Word Pro which is 10 years old, and now works very well in a 64 bit i7 Pro computer.

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[Al Bergstein]

True enough Bob. Some packages run just fine in a VM, *it’s all about whether the devs coded it properly*. Always hard to tell. Adobe has usually had a better team than most. Glad to hear that Elements ran well.

Al

[Bob Dix]

Well it did Al, I hardly use it now, I have gone to CS5.5.2 for the last 4 months

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[Wallace Adrian d’alessio]

Interesting to note, After Effects starts right up.

It has no sound either but starts.

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[Bob Dix]

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