[James Magda]

Stephen,

I have Sony Vegas 9, 10 and DVD Architect 5.0 and I can’t find a “use legacy disk drivers” check box anywhere in the preferences of any of them. Where is it?

James

[James Magda]

That was it. Works like a charm! Thanks again.

[James Magda]

Great! Can’t wait to get home to try that out. I have been trying all kinds of thing to try and get this thing to work.

Thanks, John!

[James Magda]

You never got an answer to your question, did you?

I am having the same problem. I have Movie Studio Platinum 9, DVD Architect 4.5. Both hang the whole system and will not let me kill them, even through Task Manager. I have to power off to kill them.

I have Vista 64, Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q8200 (2.33GHz), 8gb of RAM and a 1GB NVIDIA video card.

I have been emailing SONY back and forth with no success. I even downloaded and tried out Movie Studio HD 10, and it does the same thing with it, too. So, it’s something with me (my system).

[James Magda]

What constitutes “fairly recent”? I’m running Vista 64, Home Edition, service pack 2. My PC’s Windows Media Encoder says it’s version 9.00.00.2980, copyright 1995-2002. When I click on “Check for Windows Media Encoder updates”, it takes me to a Microsoft page about Expression Encoder 4 and how Windows Media Encoder is being retired in mid-2010.

Should I download this new Encoder 4 thing?

-James

[James Magda]

I did, indeed, use Windows Media Video 9 and the Nero Vision portion of Nero 9.

The only reason I didn’t use DVD Architect is that whenever I try to use it via my NLE, it hangs up my entire PC at the point of “Scanning for devices…” So, I just don’t use it. I wrote Sony about it, but they never responded.

Thanks, everyone again.

[James Magda]

Thanks for the speedy reply, John. And thanks for your help.

I rendered both ways you suggested. The MainConcept MPEG2 way only gave me video; there was no sound with it. And the Sony AVC way did give me video and sound, but the picture couldn’t handle the special effects I had added in and it came out all jaggedy when my effects occurred in the clip.

Now, the part that’s going to make you mad. I know you guys on here are the experts and everything – and I don’t want to start some kind of yelling match – but over the weekend I bought a Memorex BD-RE and burned my .wmv clip to it. I know you said that won’t work, but it did. It’s the same .wmv clip that I spoke of earlier that looked so good.

I had already burned this .wmv clip to a DVD and it looked pretty awful. (Well, maybe it just looked like a DVD, and I’m spoiled with Blu-ray.) So, I wanted to burn the exact same file to a Blu-ray to see the difference. WOW! It looks just like the render on my computer! There doesn’t appear to be any generational degradation at all. I used NERO 9 to burn both the DVD and the Blu-ray. If you’d like the settings and stuff I used, I can get all that once I get home tonight.

[James Magda]

Thanks for the response, Mary, but I know how to change the panning for the entire track – that’s the problem. I don’t want to change the panning for the entire track to be on the left, say, just because one sound effect 10 minutes in has a crash in that spot.

You mentioned a “panning envelope to gradually change the panning over time”. What is that?

[James Magda]

You first have to save off – or “render” – the segment you have that has scratches and dust (should be rendered as a format called “filmstrip”; don’t know if Vegas can do this). This formatting turns your segment, clip (or event, as Vegas calls it) into a series of jpgs. It will be HUGE! (If your movie equals 24 frames per second; that’s 24 jpgs for each second of your film.) Then open it up in Photoshop as “filmstrip” and remove each piece of dust or hair by hand from each jpg, re-save it, then open it back up in Vegas (again, if Vegas will accept “filmstrip”.)

This makes for a many-generationed film, im my mind. And since I don’t have Photoshop anyway, what I do (I’m removing some specks and hair from a production, myself) is, in Vegas, at the point where the speck or hair is located, I go up to the video track above it and place a mask there. When the event is played back: speck-b-gone!

Now, it’s a (somewhat) tedious process to create this perfect mask (If you’re interested, I’ll explain in a later post), but what you’ll end up with is a rendered-once project, as opposed to the multi-generational way with Photoshop.

[James Magda]

I was having this same issue and discovered this solution:

In Sony Vegas, go to Options–>Preferences/Audio Device tab. Vegas probably has you set to Microsoft Sound Mapper (or maybe even Windows Classic Wave Driver). These settings are what’s causing your audio to be directed to the left channel. Change this setting to Direct Sound Surround Mapper; all your audio will now be going to the correct channels.