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?)
"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.
"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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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>
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.