[Mary Waitrovich]

I’ve been using Vegas 9 and DVDA 5 on a new mac pro via boot camp for over 6 months now, and it does work, but it’s been one headache after another and I wouldn’t do it again if I had the choice. Also, I am not working with blu-ray. There are driver issues and I’ve had terrible hard drive issues. I’m now planning to do basically what John suggests above sometime in the fall when Windows 7 is released.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mary Waitrovich]

Okay, now I’m taking back what I said about Sony in my previous post. Customer Service did follow up with me. They didn’t actually fix my problem but they didn’t just blow me off either.

I have resolved my mov encoding issue. It turned out to be an issue with the main production drive in my machine. I’m still not sure exactly what the issue is (something in QT was having trouble with the file path) but I can encode to other drives on the machine, so all is well. Long live Vegas!

Mary

[Mary Waitrovich]

I had a similar problem once and then realized I had a large .tiff still image on the timeline. That was killing the render. When I replaced it with a converted png, it worked fine.

[Mary Waitrovich]

Reporting back that Sony Media customer service has apparently blown me off on the grounds that I’m using Windows XP via boot camp on a Mac. I can understand why it might be difficult to support windows on boot camp, but I know I’m not the only one running Vegas in this way and, unless I’m the only one who is unable to encode .mov files after Vegas 9 install, it would seem reasonable they would want to fix such a basic problem.

[Mary Waitrovich]

I failed to mention I’m using XP from a Mac Pro with boot camp. It might have something to do with that. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Vegas 9, and I got a slightly different behavior with the render progress window going immediately to 100% and stalling there.

I’m trying to send an email support request to sony, but their interface is maddening. I’ll report back if and when I resolve this.

Mary

[Mary Waitrovich]

Thanks, John.
I’m not using 64 bit OS, Vegas or QT.
In terms of codec, I’ve tried Sorenson 3, several presets and uncompressed. None work in either Vegas 9 or 8.

I also uninstalled and reinstalled the current version of QT pro, with the same results.

[Mary Waitrovich]

followup:
John, your idea to update the audio driver for xp in bootcamp really made a difference. Thanks so much.

In case anyone else is having hanging and crashing with boot camp, this is where you can download the latest audio driver:
https://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Mary

[Mary Waitrovich]

Our IT support people did the install for me, so I will ask them about the chipset driver step. Thanks much.

[Mary Waitrovich]

Yeah, thanks for your thought, John. I guess I will go back to hoping Vegas 9 behaves better.
Mary

[Mary Waitrovich]

Thanks so much for your thoughts. Very helpful.
Mary