switching files in Vegas

[John Rofrano]

[Doug Kereszturi] ” Is it possible to open and work on a project in an older version of Vegas (8), then reopen in Vegas 10 and complete it?”

Yes, but you can’t go back to 8 once you save it in 10. So it’s upward compatible but not backward compatible.

~jr

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[Scott Francis]

I use 9 and 10. If I want to be sure that all is good, when I open a previously worked on project, I “save as” with veg10, after the name so I know which is which. You can also choose the default version (8 or 10) that windows uses to open a veg file…this way is you want to make SURE vegas 8 is the default…in case you want to migrate slowly to 10…good luck!

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Doug Kereszturi]

Thanks all for the help. Are there really night and day differences between 8 and 10?

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[Scott Francis]

I would say bigger between 8&9 than 9&10, but 10 (for me at this point) is a little more stabler and runs WAY quicker and MUCH better preview.

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[John Rofrano]

[Doug Kereszturi] “Are there really night and day differences between 8 and 10?”

Yea, well… as Scott said, lots of differences between 8 and 9 and then add 10 to that and 8 to 10 is a big jump. Vegas Pro 8 was right around the time that AVCHD/H.264 reared it’s ugly head. Vegas Pro 8 could handle some of it, 9 could handle more of it, but 10 has really made great strides in supporting AVCHD at decent playback speeds. Then, of course, 10 comes with stabilization built in, 9 added support for closed captions and 10 expanded that by showing it on the preview. Just lots of little things that make work a lot simpler.

But the biggest jump is the new OFX plug-ins like BCC7. This puts Vegas Pro 10 in a whole new class. I almost never need to go out to After Effects now that I have BCC7 with Vegas Pro 10. I mean that right there was worth the price of admission. Add to that Folder tracks and Audio Event FX and 10 is just a dream to work in now. I could never go back to 8.

~jr

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