well….Vegas 6 has not fixed render to mpeg 2 problem

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

Thanks Peter. That is very kind of you.
I have not really used DVDA2 since I got it last year. I shall have a go at replicating one of my menus from DVD Workshop.

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk

[Yoyodyne]

Thanks guys – hopefully my suffering can help others 🙂

The last word I got from Sony tech support was:

“While Vegas is not running delete C:Program FilesSonyShared Plug-Ins, and
then reinstall Vegas. Now are you able to render to MPEG again?

Sincerely,

Ted H.”

I would give this a try before a full re-install and speaking of re-install…

I did a complete ntfs reformat – nuked the whole C: partition (I have a bunch of ghost images and Acronis true images so I can always go back to a later state – but it was probably time for the full XP “fresh install” anyway.) I tried a repair install of XP but it did nothing.

I know it’s a painful road to travel & I have yet to install a fair bit of software and plug-ins – not really looking foreward to doing that – but it sure seems to have fixed the problem for me. Vegas 6 so far has been working great, capturing HDV and rendering to mpeg 2 – works like a champ.

I have no clue what the problem was & Sony tech support just could not repeat the issue. They were very supportive and I even talked to Dave Hill on the phone – very nice guy – & he really wanted to help but computers are pesky critters…

I’d say if I had it to do over again, I would have reformatted and re-installed XP after the second day of my problem. It seems the mucking around and registry editing, etc are a worse time sucker than starting from scratch…

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

“While Vegas is not running delete C:Program FilesSonyShared Plug-Ins, and then reinstall Vegas. Now are you able to render to MPEG again?
Thanks for the info Yoyodyne.
I was hoping that would cure my problems with MPEG2-CBR render but it that is not to be.
I uninstalled V5.0d. Deleted the shared plug-ins folder. Also uninstalled DVDA2 for good measure.

MPEG2 render (CBR) stops at around 200Mb with indeteminate error.

What I did notice was that the W2k registry still had the Mainconcept entry after unistall of V5.0d and DVDA2.

Here, perhaps Edward Troxel can help.

The registry entry is

Currentkey: xxxxx etc. 3P9VDII
INSTFLAGS: REG_DWORD: 0X10
KEY1: Xxxxx etc. 3P9VD
The last 2 charcters in line 1 are not I,i or 1 but a bold vertical character.
Looking at the V4 registry entry, which works fine with MPEG2, is similar to V5 entry but first line is
Currentkey: xxxxx etc. 3P9VDIZ

What do you think Edward?

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

Just installed V6.0a (b99).
The MPEG2 render at CBR crashes at 200Mb (6,500 frames ). MPEG2 render using VBR works fine. Same effect as I get with 5.0d.

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk