Sony Vegas pro 9.0 and windows seven

[Al Bergstein]

Rob, I’m runing Pro 9.0c on Windows 7 64 bit. I’ve just recently installed VV, and I show four possible choices specifically for Windows. One is Windows Media Video v11. Not sure why you are choosinig Windows audio to render a video. The snips you see on my screen shot were rendered in Windows VIDEO not audio and sound just fine. Since I’m relatively new to VV not sure why I would choose one over the other. I’ve enclosed the best screen capture I could of the choices. Not sure why you have previous Windows media choices. Update to the software???

Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit

[Rob Dean]

Yes, I choose windows media video v11, but see the ‘custom’ button to the right? – That’s where you customise the video. If you click on that and go to the audio tab, you will see that you can choose the audio ‘format’, this is where my problem lies.

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[John Rofrano]

Did you do a clean install of Windows 7 or update from XP? (I’m not even sure if that’s possible). Anyway, my options for audio in Vegas Pro 9.0 under Windows Video V11 are:

Windows Media Audio 10 Professional
Windows Media Audio 9.2
Windows Media Audio Voice 9

I’m not sure why yours are different.

~jr

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[Al Bergstein]

Ok. That’s clearer. I’ve always gone with the default and not changed the codec. so can’t help there. However, I’ve never felt a need to change the codec. The audio always has come out fine on the default.

Q. help me understand, for my own benefit, why do you want to change the audio codecs from the default? Is there a commercial/client issue?

As to Win7, as I understand it, there is no direct upgrade from XP to Win7. If you wanted to preserve your machine, you would have to pay to go to Vista first. Whether that’s worth the effort or not is debateable. If you have all your original restore disks, then maybe you could just jump to the 7 and reinstall. But an interim move to Vista would conciveably make that work smoother. Or buy a new machine, and move your software over as you can. That’s usually what I do. I *highly* recommend getting Vista Professional, because it will allow you to run virtualization software on it. You can’t run XP mode on lower versions. Also, on new machines, look for the chip’s ability, from AMD or Intel to support Virtualization natively. If you do choose to run a parallel OS, it will be much faster.

Caveats on an upgrade: Drivers. also you need to catalogue your commonly used software and see what needs to be upgraded. Some packages might not be supported by Win7 (ProTools just went beta for example, here four months afterlaunch). What I can say is that my new HP quad core has been able to run Sony’s software just fine for now. I’ve had blue screens with my video drivers, and had to back out a MS recommended upgrade to the latest video drivers for Viewsonic’s newer 24″ HDef monitor and go with the ‘generic’ drivers in the Vista package. And these were drivers that MS’ update program recommended! But that wasn’t Sony’s issue, or problem.

Anyway, hope this helps and hasn’t rat holed us on a sideline topic.

Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit

[Al Bergstein]

Correction: I meant to say, “go to Windows 7 Professional, not Vista Pro”

Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit

[Al Bergstein]

Rob, in looking at my version of VV 9.0c, when I chooose Windows Media Video 11 for WMV for rendering (there are no other choices there), I get the following choices as default for audio:

Windows Media Audio 10 Pro
Windows Media Audio 9.2
Windows Media Audio Voice 9

So unless your question was not correct, I’m unclear why you shouldn’t have the same choices, unless the 64 bit version is different from the 32. And again, my WMV rendering for audio on my video worked just fine.

(can’t do a screen capture of the pull down menu).

Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit

[Rob Dean]

Hi again, yes in XP I had those choices as well now all I have is:

Windows media audio v7
Windows media audio voice 9

I can’t understand why the others aren’t there, I have a friend who has windows seven 32 bit, and he has no problems with Sony Vegas, it just worked for him. I wouldn’t mind if it still sounded ok, but both of these selections make the video sound distorted after render. Not to mention that for both of these options, there are not available selections under ‘attributes’, so I can’t increase the quality from there in either of these codecs anyway. I have tried reinstalling Sony Vegas, reinstalling my codecs, and I even recently tried reinstalling windows seven because I got so frustrated. I can’t seem to find the solution. All I want is the option to choose ‘Windows media audio 9.2’, because that is the one I always used, but it’s just not there.

Thanks for replying and trying to help me by the way, I appreciate it. 🙂
If you have some idea of what might be causing this, then I will be glad to try anything, because it’s extremely frustrating.
If not, I will probably have to resort to rendering my videos on my laptop, which has XP, but that will take forever because it’s so slow.

[Al Bergstein]

Did you try specifically installing Windows Media Player again? if that’s possible? It seems like it did not install the right codecs when you installed Win7. Not sure why. Isn’t Sony VV only supported running on Windows 7 64 bit? I’ve got some confusion on that since sony’s site claims either 32 or 64 bit Vista, but I thought I read somewhere that they were supporting 7 with 64 bit only. Or am I mistaken?

I also checked this out.
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Codecs-frequently-asked-questions

Download site for XP and Vista is here
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
Could it be downloaded for 7? Or I guess just use your original install disks. Could there have been an install option that you unchecked to not install the player???

Hope this helps! Quite frustrating!

Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & Vegas Video 9.0c on Win7/64bit

[Rob Dean]

I still couldn’t get it to work, but after hours of frustration, I found out I can just render it as *.mp4 and it works fine, and it lets you set a custom bitrate for the audio.
Thanks for trying to help though. 🙂

[John Rofrano]

Well… I was going to say that WMV is a tired old proprietary Microsoft format that I would never use except in special cases (i.e., maximum compatibility with the oldest of computers). MPEG-4 AVC is the way to go today because of it’s wide cross-platform compatibility so you are much better off using an mp4 formatted file anyway.

Glad you got it all working.

~jr

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