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With Vegas 8 I have to purchase the ability to do ac3 w/custom settings?
What the heck is going on? The Old Dolby Digital setting in 5,6,& 7 all allowed me to change various settings. Now 8 has two options: Pro & Studio. If I use studio, I can’t customize the settings at all, just use the two stereo presets! If I use Pro, it says I need to purchase it for $200 bucks! What the heck is going on!? And it is possible to pull the old encoder (which I thought worked fine) out of 7 or something? I don’t want to pay $200 for something that was always included in previous versions! Is Sony trying to mess us over?
–the Fiddler
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I seriously hope you are kidding. Otherwise I will be very ticked off too. I just ordered V8, and it will be sent directly back to Sony unopened, and I’ll stick with V7 if this is true.
Can anyone confirm?
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I can confirm it! Unless I’m missing something, you can’t customize your dolby output unless you purchase the pro package for $200! It has two 5.1 presets as well, so it’s not like you can’t output dolby ac3, but it seems like a downgrade since the last version (unless of course you want to pay $200), which had the presets, and the customizable settings.
–the Fiddler
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I recorded a small file, went to Render As, Dolby Pro AC3, preprocessing tab, changed a few things, clicked save, and boom, it rendered, saved it to a folder. This is the full trial version of V8. I don’t see how the paid version could be different (since you just enter your key, right?) You are talking about the tabs with bitstream modes and sample rates, right? Did it let you do a few first and then cut you off? Or was it from the beginning?
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Do you have DVD Architect installed? The full AC3 encoder comes with DVD Architect – not Vegas.
Edward Troxel
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I may not have had it installed when I tried before, but now I do, and I just tried again, and it gave me the same thing! It wants me to buy it. Isn’t Vegas 8 Pro only available as a bundle with DVDA 4.5? If it’s just giving me problems because I tried to use it before installing DVDA, that seems stupid on Sony’s part. Why not just have it install with Vegas, since there’s no way anyone would have Vegas 8 without DVDA?
And how am I going to get it to work? I don’t want to do a complete reinstall! Sony should be smarter than this.
–the Fiddler
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I installed V8, and it works fine for me. The AC-3 encoder is there with all options, just like previous versions of Vegas. Something must have happened with your install. Maybe call Sony support and see if they can help you.
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