Vegas 10 will NOT play or load Cineform AVIs

[Dave Haynie]

No solution, but I’ve run into the same problem… only owned Vegas 10 for a few minutes so far, though. It’s also choking on my GearBox plug-in.

Particularly weird, since the online spec/blurbs for Vegas 10 specifically claim that it supports Cineform. Which really ought to be a redundant claim, since Cineform is under DirectShow/VfW, so no special support ought to be needed, or even particularly useful, unless Vegas is doing something special to improve the workflow.

They do qualify it as “Version 5.1 or later”, which doesn’t seem to relate to my Cineform NeoScene at all (V1.6.1?). Looks like 1+1 = 5 at Cineform. Anyway, I guess I have to order the upgrade, which isn’t too expensive, so I’ll try that and see what happens (knowing Cineform, it’s not going to happen tonight, but it would be great to be wrong).

Well, no, didn’t order the upgrade. Cineform has the most flawed registration system yet devised. They screwed up my initial purchase, and I had a hell of a time getting the program authorized. Now the registration server tells me my copy has already been upgraded… it definitely has not.

I think I’ll take another look at Avid’s DNxHD….

-Dave

[Dave Haynie]

After slightly over a year, the Cineform tech support people actually helped me on this.

I wrote about the failed upgrade. Turns out, their registration system had somehow merged me and some other user… so they wound up taking my second install and my upgrade. Whoops.

They may find this one innocent, but it’s a clearly flawed system. For one, you can register just based on your serial number. They ought to have a more secure system, where you have to create a login with password protection and enter the serial number — that way, you have a single point of failure at least for the S/N… if it hasn’t been compromised, you’re registered and then only you can do any new activity (installs, de-installs, upgrades) based on that number.

With that said, the very latest Cineform Neo 5 beta seems to work in Vegas 10. I had already deleted the Cineform files I had planned to use (still have the originals, of course), so this didn’t actually solve my initial problem, but in the long term, perhaps. I do like the Cineform product, it’s just that their registration/authorization system is seriously broken.

-Dave