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Production Assistant Uninstall Fail
I downloaded the demo of Production Assistant 1.0 and the trial ran out. I uninstalled the program via Add/Remove programs, restarted my computer (naturally).
Now, every time I open Sony Vegas, I get the following error:
“Veags Pro Production Assistant installation may be corrupt. Cannot find the Registry entry. Please re-install.”I would go ahead and re-install the program and then try removing it again. However, only Production Assistant 2.0 is available on Sony’s website and I don’t want to make matters worse.
Any ideas? Do I have to hack the registry?
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Try reinstalling Vegas. That’s pretty painless and stands a decent chance of getting you back on your feet again.
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I’d rather not do that. I have it pretty customized at this point. Plus, Vegas still works, I just have to click ok for the error. Still not acceptable though, especially for a product that Sony sells.
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Sorry thought you couldn’t get into Vegas. Good Luck
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No problem. Thank you for your input. I am hoping someone else will chime in.
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Open the Explorer and type %APPDATA%\Sony\Vegas Pro\Application Extensions in the address line. Hit Enter. Delete the PA library (with .dll extension). Reinstall if you need.
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That did the trick. Thank you.
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[Sam Caino] “I would go ahead and re-install the program and then try removing it again. However, only Production Assistant 2.0 is available on Sony’s website and I don’t want to make matters worse”
Production Assistant 1.0 is still available on the Updates page. I assume that you may have uninstalled it while Vegas was still running and so it had the DLL locked and it could not be deleted. This would cause the error you are seeing. A re-install and uninstall with Vegas not running would definitely fix it.
[Aleksey Tarasov] “Open the Explorer and type %APPDATA%\Sony\Vegas Pro\Application Extensions in the address line. Hit Enter. Delete the PA library (with .dll extension). Reinstall if you need.”
This will also fix the problem since the only thing left behind was probably the DLL.
~jr
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John, thanks for the information. You are probably right about me having Vegas running while I uninstalled. That’s also why I figured a re-install/un-install would work. Deleting the .dll manually did, in fact do the trick as well.
Production Assistant was pretty cool and could have been a valuable tool for my workflow, if only it supported Network Rendering.
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[Sam Caino] “Production Assistant was pretty cool and could have been a valuable tool for my workflow, if only it supported Network Rendering.”
Unfortunately, Sony doesn’t have a Script API for Network Rendering so nothing can take advantage of it.
~jr
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I know. I spent a good amount of time trying to find automated Network Render scripts before I discovered that sad fact.
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