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Randini wrote on 5/2/2011, 6:37 PM
These are some AWESOME looks! Is there a way to have this work in Vegas 9? I tried it and when I click on a preset it crashes.
erikd wrote on 5/3/2011, 2:00 PM
Alexander your contributions are duly noted!! Easily the most professional Vegas tutorials I've ever seen and I must have watched 5 or 6 without stopping. At the very least, this thread deserves a bump. Thanks for helping to put the Pro in Vegas Pro. (Are you using BCC7 to get your 3D text graphics btw?)

Erik
Alex D. wrote on 5/3/2011, 2:39 PM
Thanks all for comments!

"Is there a way to have this work in Vegas 9? I tried it and when I click on a preset it crashes." - At me Vegas Pro 10, and I couldn't test for version 9.

"Are you using BCC7 to get your 3D text graphics btw?" - I used Cinema 4D.
Woodenmike wrote on 5/3/2011, 4:07 PM
Rookie question here...what folder should the rar file be unpacked to?
SuperSet wrote on 5/3/2011, 8:48 PM
It doesn't seem to matter where you unpack because the PDF tells you to use the Preset Manager and point to the sfpreset file.

BTW, the Bronze and Journey presets don't work. The others are fine. Thx much for these as they are quite awesome!
rique wrote on 5/4/2011, 1:01 AM
The only one I was able to get to work was the B&W one and it also crashed Vegas.
Alex D. wrote on 5/4/2011, 2:00 AM
"The only one I was able to get to work was the B&W one and it also crashed Vegas." - very strange ... a lot of users have tested these presets and no problems!
Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/4/2011, 6:13 AM
Same here - Bronze and Journey don't work. I am on 10.0c 32bit.
Tom
SuperSet wrote on 5/4/2011, 7:27 AM
Favor to ask for those who have Bronze and Journey working -- can you post the correct VideoFXs for these 2? I'll just manually build them.
vtxrocketeer wrote on 5/4/2011, 11:18 AM
I like these, too, but like others above, I can't get Bronze and Journey to load. Fails on 10.0c 32- and 64-bit.

Even more strange, I can't get the other presets to reliably load. I have to manually exit from the preset box, click another frame in the timeline event, then go back into the FX dialog. Maybe a quirk of my system, but at least I could eventually get all but Bronze and Journey to load.

Steve
Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/4/2011, 11:35 AM
Steve,
I see the same behaviour here as well. Once one these fails, none of them work until you exit from adding an FX and go back in again.

I am wondering if it's perhaps a Preset Manager issue. No clue how to verify.

Tom
vtxrocketeer wrote on 5/4/2011, 11:40 AM
Bingo, Tom. You described it better than I did. I have a hunch that it is a preset quirk: both flavors of Vegas work very well for me.

Thought: I will have to try to get one of these presets to load and then save it as an FX chain under another name. Totally unprincipled kludge, for sure, but I'd like to avoid all the mouse clicks somehow.

Steve
ingvarai wrote on 5/4/2011, 12:45 PM
Thanks a lot Alexander! I have downloaded the file.
Just out if curiosity - I have no app at the moment to unpack RAR files, so I must get hold of one. So I am just wondering, who not use ZIP? ZIP is built into Windows.

When I have installed a RAR-unpacker, I will be eager to look at this.

Ingvar
Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/4/2011, 12:49 PM
Hmmm .. my version of WinZIP has no trouble unpacking RAR files - WinZIP 14.5 Pro.
Tom
rs170a wrote on 5/4/2011, 1:01 PM
When I have installed a RAR-unpacker, I will be eager to look at this.

http://7-zip.org/7-Zip[/link]
It's free and comes in 32 and 64 bit versions.

Mike
ingvarai wrote on 5/4/2011, 1:12 PM
To Tom and rs170a,

I do not have WinZip and I do not have 7-Zip. On my multi media machine that is, in my home multi media studio. ZIP is built into Windows, it is there already, after a fresh clean install of Windows.

That is why I wonder why any other compression is used for such small archives, for large archives RAR and other technologies migth be slightly more efficient.

Since Vegas is a Windows app, using ZIP will allow 100% of the Vegas users to access the files immediately. Using RAR, it will allow X % for users to access the files immediately, and Y % users who bother to install a RAR extractor to use them.

I am not going to rant about this, I did install a RAR unpacker, and am now eager to test the presets. But I am still curious about why RAR is used.
Ingvar
reberclark wrote on 5/4/2011, 2:22 PM
Okay I'll rant. <rant>Agree about ZIP versus RAR. Zip is already in the operating system. Using RAR has been a problem which I have never understood. I downloaded an RAR unpacker just for some files and now it just sits there taking up space. Yes, I can uninstall it. But what a $%$#@! pain in the @$$.</rant>
dibbkd wrote on 5/4/2011, 5:23 PM
Microsoft XPS is built into Windows already, why doesn't anybody use it and use PDFs instead?

Maybe not a perfect example, but if you have never used 7Zip or never heard of it, look at it as if you've learned something new now that a lot of techy folks have been using for many many years.
ushere wrote on 5/4/2011, 9:26 PM
Same here - Bronze and Journey don't work. I am on 10.0c 64bit.
A. Grandt wrote on 5/4/2011, 9:36 PM
Just tried them all here, and they seem to be working fine.

Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Vegas 10c 64-bit.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/5/2011, 6:36 AM
Interesting to say the least.

Any way for you to post the settings/chains for those two so we can manually create them??

TIA,
Tom
warriorking wrote on 5/5/2011, 7:22 AM
No go with Bronze and Journey with me as well, Vegas 10c 64bit & 32Bit
Alex D. wrote on 5/5/2011, 8:38 AM
I read your comments ... in the future will be more time to testing.
Another tip - drag my presets to preview window, maybe so will be less crashes.
Alex D. wrote on 5/5/2011, 8:38 AM
I read your comments ... in the future will be more time to testing.
Another tip - drag my presets to preview window, maybe so will be less crashes.