Pro 10.0b is out – Merry Christmas from Sony

[Jim Greene]

Cool! Guess it’s not “official” as it isn’t on their download page yet. Any idea as to what was fixed?

-Jim.

[Mike Kujbida]

Sorry Jim but I have no idea.
Even the 10.0b manual doesn’t list anything.
We’ll have to be patient and wait for it to be posted on the “official” page.

[Mike Kujbida]

The update is now available on the regular page.

Notable fixes/changes in Version 10.0b

* Added the ability to configure encoded format, interlace mode, and quality of CineForm™ encoding.
* Added 24p Blu-ray Disc rendering templates.
* Decreased startup time when many OFX plug-ins are installed.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a project using a missing OFX generator.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when using Save Media with Project with media that had stabilization applied.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when replacing media with stabilization applied.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when starting playback after reordering audio track effects multiple times.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a project using media generators if the Video Media Generators window was open.
* Fixed some issues in AC-3 Pro rendering format (muted LFE channel when using the “2/0 (L, R) + LFE” template, enabled LFE option for “1/0 (C)” and “2/0 (L,R)” templates, don’t show “2/0 (L, R) + LFE” template for stereo projects).
* Fixed an issue smart rendering to MPEG-2 standard definition.
* Fixed an issue that could cause video track effects to be processed as pre-composite after dragging the plug-in to the post-composite position in the Video Track FX window.
* Fixed an issue adding 5.1 surround plug-ins to the master bus in a 5.1 surround project.
* Fixed an issue that could prevent FX Bus input meters from functioning.
* Fixed an issue that could prevent FX from being heard in the Apply Non-Real-Time Event FX dialog.
* Fixed time, tempo, and meter information passed to VST plug-ins.
* Fixed a hang that could occur when using 32-bit VST plug-ins in the 64-bit version of Vegas Pro.
* Fixed audio glitches that could occur when scrubbing in a 5.1 surround project.
* Fixed an issue with OFX presets for fractional values when saved or loaded with certain language settings active.
* Fixed an issue loading large presets for OFX plug-ins.
* Fixed an issue with OFX plug-ins that vary output even with fixed parameters.
* Fixed an issue that could cause OFX temporal frame access to be incorrect when rendering to a file.
* Fixed an issue loading and saving OFX presets that contain large amounts of data.
* Fixed an issue that could cause keyframes for OFX plug-ins to move to the start of the FX timeline.
* Fixed an issue that could cause an Undo operation in the video FX timeline to move all keyframes to the start of the FX timeline.
* Fixed incorrect results with certain OFX transition effect plug-ins when used on still images.
* Fixed OFX keyframe interpolation for certain cases.
* Fixed an issue that could cause the Stereoscopic 3D Adjust plug-in to create interlace patterns in the image.
* Fixed an issue that could prevent the Auto Correct function in Stereoscopic 3D Adjust from working properly with source images requiring flips.
* Fixed an issue that could cause removal of stabilization to could change the range of time represented by a subclip.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when a string consisting entirely of unsupported characters was entered for a closed caption.
* Fixed an issue reading HDV clips captured with certain third-party tools.
* Fixed a hang that could occur when compositing or crossfading between large still image sequences.
* Fixed alpha channel for PNG images rendered as an image sequence.
* Fixed a problem rendering projects using 32-bit floating point video as image sequences.
* Expanded scripting properties and methods for stereoscopic 3D and OFX plug-ins. Scripting changes have been posted to the Vegas

[Theo Van laar]

Did you find any newly introduced problems with 10b?

Theo

[Mike Kujbida]

“Did you find any newly introduced problems with 10b?”

Unfortunately yes but only on one of my work machines.
My home machine is fine.

As reported in the HELP….Render problems with upgrade thread on the Sony Vegas forum, some users are having serious issues doing renders to the Sony AVC format.

To their credit, Sony jumped into the thread and here’s their response.

Hello Folks,
Thanks for the detailed bug reports. We are currently looking into the issue and have determined that the problem is limited to the Sony AVC plug-in.
We recommend that you stick with Vegas Pro 10.0a if this is a workflow you typically use.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Theo Van laar]

Yes, the AVC rendering with 10b is also a big problem in Holland. Good that Sony is already looking into that problem. Thanks!

Theo

[David Bilodeau]

Has anyone tried the upgrade or even a clean install, of the 64-bit version of Vegas 10.0b, on 64-bit Windows 7?

For me, either with upgrade from 10.0a to 10.0b or a complete, clean install of 10.0b after following Sony’s instructions to the letter, the program crashes at the point in the startup phase where it tries to create its windows. I had to roll back to 10.0a and at this point cannot run 10.0b.

I have an open case with Sony but haven’t heard back yet, and wondered if anyone else had had any trouble with their upgrade?