[Omer Aydin]

Thanks for the quick responses.

I’m talking about opening a project by drag-drop, not just opening.

When there are already running Vegas processes available, I don’t double-click on the project and run new copies of Vegas because reusing the already running processes is faster and wiser with memory usage.

Drag-drop opening used to be very handy for me for quick-opening projects listed in a Windows Explorer search results. since it’s disabled, now I have to work like you mentioned above, running a new process for each project.

I think it’s a tiny detail and won’t bother many, but it slows down my work. I don’t know how many of you even noticed it’s gone but I want the drag-drop opening function back.

[Omer Aydin]

I have tested it on 2 systems, one with V9 (64) and the other V10 (64) but nothing changed. They still render slower than a P4 machine running V6.

[Omer Aydin]

I guess your V9 32bit has the same issue with mine. Even your time is better than mine(~40secs), 15 secs is still too much for a simple audio render, considering that it’s just a simple read/write process.

[Omer Aydin]

I’ll try that as soon as I get back to the studio.
Mine is set to audio device (M-Audio C400) directly due to some custom i/o adjustment requirements. M-audio router settings are not accessible under Sound Mapper unless you select the M-audio device driver.

[Omer Aydin]

Thanks all for the replies.

Any Vegas 9 64/32 user..?

[Omer Aydin]

Thanks Mike.
Is that VP10 a 32bit or 64bit?

[Omer Aydin]

No, Matt, I use Render as… to render.

Could you please render a 10 minute WAV file using Render As.. just to see how many seconds it takes with your version of Vegas?

BTW, I have run the same test on another machine with Core i7 960 @3ghz Win7 64bit with Vegas Pro 10 64bit and it took 27 seconds to render a 10 minutes WAV file while with SoundForge 10 and Reaper 64bit it took less than 3 seconds.

I think there is something wrong with Vegas 9 (and 10) about the way it handles audio.

I installed a Vegas 6 on the first Core i7 machine I mentioned in my initial post and it just rendered normal just like Soundforge and Reaper.

[Omer Aydin]

Thanks for the reply Mark.
Reaper is an 64bit application and it renders in 2 secs. I assume it uses 64 bit codecs.

I’d like to test it with Vegas 9 32 bit unfortunately, I don’t have it.
I’d be glad if anyone running Vegas 9 32bit on Windows 7 could do this quick test and post the result here. It’ll only take a minute or two.

Open a New project and insert an audio file (any Mp3 >128Kbit OR a WAV 44khz 16bit )in timeline, then make it 10 minutes in length, then render into a 44khz WAV file. How long does it takes to render?
Thanks in advance.

[Omer Aydin]

That is something like a car with no seatbelts crashing into a tree and someone flys out thru the windshield and you respond like `you are doing it all wrong`, ‘drive on the road` , `are you sure, I’m a driver too’
I already know people shouldn’t run into trees with a car but it happens. What I was trying to point out is that car does not have seatbelts.

Vegas uninstall script deletes files and folders that do not belong to it’s installation.

Thanks for your comments about this issue but I still think that is a faulty uninstall script.

[Omer Aydin]

“…then obviously the uninstallation will delete its folder”

Sorry Steve but that is not obvious.
Proper setup scripts do this by the book. They keep an install log of files copied to the system and uses that list when removing files later. A normal uninstall script never deletes a file not related to the setup package. If the folder contains files that do not belong to the setup, the script leaves the file and keeps the folder … and if it’s a nice script coded by nice people, you’ll see a notify message like “Some of the files are not removed”… (some even display a list of it)

I agree/know/prefer that an application should be installed in it’s own folder but not doing so won’t cost you anything with a proper install/uninstall script.

“..you are going about the installation all wrong”
Sony Setup completed that `all wrong` installation without any warning that my ‘Program Files’ folder is going to be wiped out.