[Donald Pierson]

April 2, 2010 After installing Apple’s latest Quick Time 7.6.6 Sony Vegas 8 now properly handles .mp4’s from my Sony W290 camera.

[Donald Pierson]

Thanks John…I managed to figure it out…now I have to figure out how to use SoundForge.

[Donald Pierson]

iTunes is not a thing that I knowingly have on my pc but I have Quicktime.
Here is the time line as I recall it:
Bought Sony W290.
Its software played the movies ok.
I downloaded Free Trial Vegas 9 Platinum and it would not play my .mp4’s.
I called sony camera customer support which was no help.
After much googling on mp4 vegas, etc I found that Vegas 9 uses Quicktime.
So I pulled up Quicktime and updated it.
Then my downloaded free Vegas 9 worked ok.
What happened next is more than fuzzy in my memory.
I installed and updated my purchased Vegas 9.
Played with it, editing, rendering to AVI’s and WMV, etc.
Then I noticed I had lost audio but Quicktime played video and audio.
But I will try removing Quicktime and then download it from Apple.
Earlier this moring I order Quicktime Pro 7 to make things even more confusing!

[Donald Pierson]

Yes I tried rebooting.
I ctrl-shift double click the desktop icon to restore all default setting to Vegas 9.
I also removed Vegas 9 Platinum and reinstalled it from the CD including downloading the 9b update.
The result were the same…BAD!
The fact that Quicktime plays my .mp4’s with video and audio and Vegas 9 goes belly-up leads me the conclusion that it is problem local to Vegas 9.
Is it possible that something has got set in the Vegas 9 registery entries and it remains even though I removed and reloaded Vegas 9?
Very frustrating.