[Yoyodyne]

Howdy mehash, glad to see you got my post – thanks for the heads up about the re-install. I don’t think I’ll have to – just got done with a HDV project and Vegas worked great. Now that the CBR mpeg issue is fixed the only problem I have is sometimes if I copy and paste a bunch of events the media manager shuts itself down. Of course I have yet to try this sucker out so it is not affecting me at all. I think this is a known bug as well.

Ide have to say back up your system and give Vegas 6/DVD architect 3 (the latest builds)a try – been working great for me.

Good luck

[Yoyodyne]

I do this all the time but with targa sequences – make sure your targas have the alpha and then after importing as targa sequence do what jedittv says to do above (properties – select alpha).

Hope this helps

[Yoyodyne]

I sympathise with your frustration – computers are pesky critters – but those macs are using the same harddrives your having trouble with now…

Computer hardware seems to be more a matter of luck than anything else sometimes – I have had drives from WD & IBM (curse you deskstar!!!!!)go bad and I know mac folks that have had drives go bad.

I live by the rule “all hard drives will fail at some point” and back up accordingly. As for the mobo – that sucks but Abit and Soyo have always been a bit dodgy for me. I’d stick with Intel, Supermicro, Asus or Gigabyte – Intel boards have been the most trouble free for me.

Good luck and hope this helps

[Yoyodyne]

The Vegas workflow seems to be a “love it or hate it” kind of thing. Coming from Premiere, when I first started using it I just could not wrap my head around it. I had to sit down with it and actually do a project before I “got it” – after that editing on anything else just feels clunky.

just my 02…

[Yoyodyne]

Vegas is actually a pretty good compositor but I still use After Effects a bunch for the more complex stuff.

[Yoyodyne]

Thanks guys – hopefully my suffering can help others 🙂

The last word I got from Sony tech support was:

“While Vegas is not running delete C:Program FilesSonyShared Plug-Ins, and
then reinstall Vegas. Now are you able to render to MPEG again?

Sincerely,

Ted H.”

I would give this a try before a full re-install and speaking of re-install…

I did a complete ntfs reformat – nuked the whole C: partition (I have a bunch of ghost images and Acronis true images so I can always go back to a later state – but it was probably time for the full XP “fresh install” anyway.) I tried a repair install of XP but it did nothing.

I know it’s a painful road to travel & I have yet to install a fair bit of software and plug-ins – not really looking foreward to doing that – but it sure seems to have fixed the problem for me. Vegas 6 so far has been working great, capturing HDV and rendering to mpeg 2 – works like a champ.

I have no clue what the problem was & Sony tech support just could not repeat the issue. They were very supportive and I even talked to Dave Hill on the phone – very nice guy – & he really wanted to help but computers are pesky critters…

I’d say if I had it to do over again, I would have reformatted and re-installed XP after the second day of my problem. It seems the mucking around and registry editing, etc are a worse time sucker than starting from scratch…

[Yoyodyne]

So far Vegas 6 has been working real well for me – it’s worth it just for the HDV stuff.

[Yoyodyne]

Thanks Barend! Good luck – and just as a coda, went out and picked up a new PNY geforce dual head video card (nvidia geforce fx 5500)for $99 bucks, plopped it in and my dual monitors are once again happy campers (exact same driver even). I talked to the guy at frys about my old video card going funky on me and he’d never heard of it happening – oh well. I had an ethernet router go bad on me & I thought that was impossible. I also had my Buckaroo Banzai poster fall off the wall last night (LATE last night) as I was re-installing all this stuff & my video card was simultaniously dying…they say these things happen in threes…

[Yoyodyne]

Well my “scorched earth” policy has paid off – the clean re-install of XP Pro did the trick and I can, once again, render to mpeg 2, yeehaaa!

I’m pretty sure that Vegas Mainconcept mpeg engine got borked up in version 5d & it just stayed borked up. The new Cinform/Vegas stuff in V6 fixed my m2t problem but mpeg 2 was still wonky…I think cleaning out the registry, etc and reloading all the Mainconcept stuff with the new Vegas install obviously fixed what was broken. But what a PITA!

Just as an FYI, when I had Vegas 5d still on my edit machine I tried rendering to mpeg 2 by opening up the vegas project on my laptop through the ethernet connection and have the laptop render to mpeg 2. It failed in exactly the same way as my editing machines render would fail, about 188 megs in, with the same error messge. Vegas 5d normally works fine on the laptop. I thought it was borked up as well but just did a test and it seems to be fine…and I have like everything in the world installed on this thing – my edit machine is dedicated – go figure…

Well I’m off to frys to get another video card (I got about 5 years out of this one). Hope this helps you guys – I know it’s not real good news but at least it’s a fix.

Thanks a bunch for all the info and help!

Yoyodyne

[Yoyodyne]

Thanks for the CBR/VBR tip Mehash – interesting, I’ll see how things go here and give it a try. Well, got XP re-installed with all the latest drivers for everything (and about an hours worth of security updates) & have discovered an incredibly irritating problem, my dual head video card won’t detect my second monitor! WTF!

I’m using an old dualhead Nvidia geforce2 mx card (it’s old but has always worked fine) & it won’t detect my second CRT monitor. If I plug an lcd monitor in it sees it just fine & I can use the dual head feature. I can even unplug the vga cable from the lcd and plug it into the crt and it works – but it wont see the CRT on bootup.

Going to bed now – test tommorrow