Paul Goelz
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A scan found nothing. Neither did Windows Defender.
I called Sony and they can’t figure it out either. An uninstall uninstalls cleanly and a re-install installs OK but produces the same symptoms…. unless you set it to “run as administrator”, DVDA thinks it is not registered but the register process just dies instead of completing. When set to “run as administrator”, DVDA starts and runs normally. Vegas runs normally at all times.
I sent my system specs to Sony and they will supposedly get back to me.
In the mean time I found another thread that suggests that maybe terminal services is not running. I’ll have a look tonight.
Compared to my laptop (which runs DVDA perfectly), there are no differences that I can see in the permissions or folder contents for DVDA. I also looked through the registry and didn’t find anything suspicious.
One oddity that may or may not be related…. I used to run Vegas Movie Studio Platinum bundle. While that was installed, I downloaded a copy of DVDA Pro 5.0 and installed it in trial mode. When the trial expired, I uninstalled it. When I upgraded to Vegas Pro, the Studio versions were still installed. Vegas Pro installed normally but DVDA installed to the DVDA 4.5 folder that was occupied by DVDA Studio 4.5. When I noticed this, I uninstalled ALL Sony products, deleted all folders and then re-installed. Ever since then, DVDA says it will install to a DVDA 5.0 folder but actually creates and installs to a DVDA 4.5 folder in Program Files (x86). Not sure if this means anything or not. DVDA DID work normally for a couple weeks…. this registration issue just started a couple days ago.
Paul
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I guess that is a possibility. But I’m pretty cautious, I have a virus scanner running in real time, and I don’t have any other issues. I’m rendering something right now. When it is done, I’ll run a scan. Note though that Vegas continues to run just fine. It is just DVDA that has an issue. They were both installed at the same time.
Paul
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Ah, thanks, got it. Changing that import line from Sonicfoundry to Sony did the trick. And thanks for the script too. I’ll give it a try. It looks similar to the one I had already found that now works after changing the import line.
I’ll also have a look at your paid scripts and see if there is anything I can’t live without 😉
Thanks again,
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Just what I was looking for! One problem though…. the Sony site doesn’t seem to agree that you can upgrade from Studio to Pro. At least it doesn’t mention a price. When I put in my Studio serial number in the box at the bottom of the page, it put Pro in the cart, but the price was $484.95. I called Sony and they said it was a “mistake on the web site” and implied the mistake was the $149 price but offered to honor the $149 price. I took them up on it.
Paul
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A ripple edit that didn’t….. ripple? Did you make a 10 minute change to the timeline?
Not exactly your issue but I have also had markers previously associated with deleted clips move into the remaining portion of the timeline. Although the “legitimate” markers were still there, this could make it look like markers were in the wrong place.
Paul
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I see that I (I think) can buy a copy of DVDA 5 as a stand alone. Will that allow me to render a project in Vegas Studio 4.5 and then use DVDA 5 to burn a BluRay with menus?
I wasn’t aware that DVD Architect 5 could be purchased separately but yes you could author Blu-ray with menus from any application with this.
My bad. Turns out you cannot buy DVD Architect Pro separately. You can download a trial, but to buy it requires that you buy the entire Vegas Pro package. As much as I’d like to burn BluRays with menus, I cannot justify the cost for the Vegas Pro editing suite.
So I’m stuck hoping that Sony releases a version of DVDA Studio that can burn a BluRay disk with a menu.
BTW, I just edited, rendered and burned a four hour BluRay disk from Vegas (ie., sans menu). Sorry if that sounds old hat to you people here, but to this former Premiere Elements user, that is something of a minor miracle. Anything past about 30 minutes of HD on Premiere (any version) and you are on seriously borrowed time 😉
Paul
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Well I’ll be…. you learn something every day with video these days (I date back to vidicons). Turns out after reading the specs that the HF100 only shoots in 1920 X 1080 in the highest quality setting “FXP” (17Mb/S). All other settings result in 1440 X 1080. I have been using XP+ so the properties shown by Vegas are correct. Setting the Vegas project properties to 1440 X 1080 and the preview to simulate device aspect ratio results in correct display. No idea why Media Player reports the same files as 1920 X 1080.
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You are changing the wrong settings. If Vegas thinks that the media is 1440×1080 and it’s not, then you need to change the MEDIA settings not the project settings. The Canon HF100 is indeed an AVCHD camera that shoots full 1920×1080. You should change your media properties to match this, then change the project to match as well and everything should look correct.
Sorry to be a dunce but how do you change the media settings? I don’t see any way to do it. Right clicking displays parameters…. some can be changed, and some (including resolution) cannot. Vegas insists the files are 1440 X 1080 X 12 and I don’t see a way to change that. Ditto for Windows Explorer.
I should add that if I set the project properties to 1920 X 1080 and square pixels (what the file really is) the project preview looks fine but the media preview looks squashed.
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> is there ANY way to automatically add markers at clip boundaries?
Not in the Studio version that you have. You would need Vegas Pro and then you could use scripting to automate a lot of tasks like this including placing markers at events.
That is such a shame. I am simply a consumer trying to put together the equivalent of vacation videos. I cannot justify the cost of the Pro version of Vegas. It is beyond me why that feature would have been omitted. Every other editing program I have tried has it. And I’ve settled on Vegas because it works reliably on large projects up to the capacity of a BluRay disk, unlike the others I have tried.
As for the DVDA Pro 5 stand alone purchse, the Sony web site is highly confusing. It is not shown as available for purchase anywhere. However, you can download a trial copy of DVDA Pro 5 and the blurb that accompanies it states that you can own a stand alone copy. I assume you buy it through the nag screen on the trial, since there is nowhere to buy it on the Sony site.
Anyone have any guesses about a Studio version of DVDA (like an upgrade of my DVDA Studio 4.5) that will do BluRay? It is such a pain to be in this transitionary period where nothing is simple and straightforward when it comes to getting what I shoot in glorious 1080i onto a danged BluRay disk 😉
Paul
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Ah, that kinda makes sense. I’ll have a look tonight.
If I may, I have a couple other simple questions…..
Is it normal for Vegas to render my project when burning to BluRay given that the original footage is MTS h.264 from the Canon HF100? There are dissolves between clips but other than that, the clips are unaltered. The entire project gets rendered at burn time.
And a second question. I see that I (I think) can buy a copy of DVDA 5 as a stand alone. Will that allow me to render a project in Vegas Studio 4.5 and then use DVDA 5 to burn a BluRay with menus? I have already burned a menuless BluRay from Vegas Studio and it works fine, but I’d like to have full menus.
And last, is there ANY way to automatically add markers at clip boundaries? My projects generally have quite a few clips and I’d like chapter markers at each clip. I can’t believe that there isn’t an automated way to do this! It is very easy in Premiere, but Premiere has serious/terminal issues with larger HD projects and Vegas works flawlessly 100% of the time so I switched from Premiere to Vegas….. and am quite glad I did.
Thanks,
Paul