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  • VirtualDub ruined my Sony Vegas

    Posted by Cristina Alexandra on September 3, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    Videos won’t load. All was fine until yesterday, when I installed VirtualDub and some codecs to convert a mkv file to avi. Today when I opened a vegas project, the video wasn’t loading. So I started to erase all the things I installed, but VirtualDub said some registry files couldn’t be deleted. After this, I tried to open the Vegas project again. Now some videos are loading, some not. Is this because VirtualDub? What can I do? ( Being pissed because I couldn’t erase all, I deleted the VirtualDub folder, and now I can’t even try again to clean the remaining files ). Please help…I don’t want to lose all my work

    Harold Brown replied 17 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Laszlo Kovacs

    September 3, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Hi,
    Virtualdub itself doesn’t need to be installed, it just runs from the directory you copy it to, and it surely does not hurt Vegas in any way.
    What could cause your problem is that “some codecs”.
    I bet it’s a codec-pack.
    I generally recommend against codec packs, as I’ve seen (well, it was rather Kaspersky lab:)) trojans in so called codec packs.

    I see you tried to remove things…
    If you manually deleted some parts of the installed anything, the uninstall may fail.
    You could install the same thing to the same directory, don’t delete then anything manual, just do a regular uninstall.
    You have a good chance that the uninstall will work.

    In case, it fails:
    If you install something, mostly there’s a restore point created automatically. Try to do a system-restore, if it does not work, you still have the option to do a clean install.
    It just takes some time, doesn’t mean necessary loose all your work.

    Hope I could help.

    Regards

    K.L.

    Kovácsolt Videó

  • Steve Rhoden

    September 3, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Seems that you have accidentaly deleted some of the files needed or
    that comprised parts of your vegas project,thats why thats happening.

    As Laszlo said “Virtualdub itself doesn’t need to be installed, it just runs from the directory you copy it to, and it surely does not hurt Vegas in any way.” so its puzzling that you got that
    message about cannot delete from registry….you where deleting something else!
    See if you have a restore point available before the problems
    started or before you started deleting files…and restore to
    then.

    Steve Rhoden
    Creative Director
    TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
    sample bits at
    http://www.youtube.com/hentys

  • Bill Ravens

    September 4, 2008 at 12:35 am

    VirtualDub is one of the most innocuous pieces of software I’ve ever used. To blame it for your problems, is…well….funny.

  • Harold Brown

    September 4, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I would re-install Vegas and see what happens. That is probably what you should have done to begin with.

    Harold
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