[Dave Felder]

I read on the Sony Vegas forum at Sony’s website that QT versions over 7.6.2 are known for problems,

I uninstalled QT 7.6.6 and downgraded to QT 7.6.2 and the clips now play fine.

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

Dave,
My problem was not following directions – I didn’t have QT installed on the new edit system.

Any problems working with a JPG in Boris 9? If I try to import a JPG into a project, it just shows up black in the Composite window. The video tracks from Vegas and PNG files all show up fine in the BorisFX window.

Thanks

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

>> NWhat version of QT did you install? If you send me the JPEG I can try to take a look.

Thanks Matt –

QT 7 from Apples website – I assume it’s the latest and greatest.

The JPEG’s are on a hard drive in the office and I’m on site at a client’s, but let me know where to send the JPEG and I’ll do it tommorrow.
Dave

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

Any thoughts as to why a jpeg appears black in the composite window? Converted to a PNG in photoshop, the still image is fine.

Thanks

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

>>> I don’t know where you’re perception of QuickTime causing issue is from but most NLE’s are fairly dependent on it.

My negative perception of QT is because it puts itself into your startup routine and loads if you need it or not. It also loads at least one Apple updater program which sits memory resident until it’s time to check for updates.

Just bad etiquette, IMHO.

Plus, I bought QTPro for the old edit machine several years ago, then when QT decided it was time to install the newest version of player, I started getting nag screens when I wanted to use an MPEG converter, telling me I needed to buy QT MPEG encoder. Of course, I already had Vegas installed with the Main concept encoder. I had QT pro 5 and QT player 6 when on top of it and problems began. In frustration, I downloaded “QT Alternative” but didn’t like that either, but don’t recall why.

Whether it was my lack of knowledge or ability to manage quicktime, I’m not sure, but keeping it off my machine seemed like a good antidote to the problem. Of course, the productivity I get from Boris makes it worth the grin and bear it anxiety of QT.

thanks…..

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

A big duh. When I bought the PC, the first thing I did was Flush and Fill to get rid of the junk. I never re-installed Quicktime, figuring I didn’t need it for Vegas.

Installing QT onto the PC now allows BorisFX to load and manipulate still images, so that was the problem.

When I load a JPG image, Boris doesn’t give an error message, but just shows a blank screen. I know jpeg isn’t the best, but people give me stills from their digital cameras. Converting the JPEGs to PNG’s in photoshop makes them work OK in Boris.

Thanks for your time, Matt. I guess I’ll play with 9.3 and see if there’s anything in there worth buying, or I’ll just put BFX 7 back onto the machine.

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

Uninstalled Boris 7 & Installed Boris 9.3. Same problem. Tried a few other things and the problem is a little different than i originally thought:

In Vegas, put a still image onto V1. Put the BorisFX Video effect onto it. Open it in Boris. The media is accessible.

Try changing the still image to a different still image. It won’t let me, I get the same error message that it’s unsupported media.

Perhaps it’s a win 7/ Vegas 9 issue. I noticed during installation that BFX 9.3 had Vegas 6,7 & 8 listed as options, but not Vegas 9.

Ugh, I’m not looking forward to doing layers upon layers of video effects using Vegas’s built in effects.

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

Thanks Matt. Guess the BFX9 trial is the quickest way to find out.
Dave

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

Thanks Matthew,
Guess there’s no point in upgrading until the next release comes out – will it be at NAB?

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

[Dave Felder]

It’s the only workflow until more vendors smell the 64-bit roses. the only caveat is that you can’t open a project in the 64-bit version once you have 32-bit plug-ins in it. I mean you can open it, but the plug-ins will be missing.

Thanks John. So I guess the only realistic workflow is to “downgrade” to 32 bit Vegas 9 after buying a new PC and new software, or get another effects program that offers 64 bit plugins? (You listening Boris?)

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ