What the hell is this? I'm getting so fed up with these problems. Vegas 8-10 haven't done this.
I have thousands of clips of footage from my three Canon Vixia HF S21s. They're in 1440x1080 resolution and an aspect ratio of 1.33. I use Cineform Neoscene to convert them from AVCHD to AVI.
When I drop any footage into the project media in Vegas 11, the aspect ratio for every clip is changed from 1.33 to 1. Vegas does what someone trying to sabotage my project is doing, and I've been civil about this in sending questions about it to technical support, but I'm getting so fed up since this is my livelihood, and I can't deliver projects to clients because of other bugs that Vegas 10 and 11 have.
Vegas 11 changes every clip-clips that are on my hard drive and in projects that I'm editing on 10, which are in the correct aspect ratio-and changes them. That's quite the business strategy. So if I am to use Vegas 11, I have to go through thousands of clips I shot and change the aspect ratio to 1.33.
To be clear, this is not a problem in the properties of the project. I can change the aspect ratio in the project to anything, and it doesn't fix it. I have the aspect ratio set to 1.33 in the project properties. It's the clips themselves that I have to right click on once they're in Vegas 11 and change one by one.
I got a response from Sony saying that the problem is fixed with the new upgrade that came out, apparently on Nov. 1st. I uninstalled Vegas 9, 10, and 11, installed 11, downloaded the upgrade, and I still have the same problem.
And by the way, I uninstalled Vegas because Vegas 10 and 11 are giving me avi.dll errors as soon as I open projects, meaning I can do no work.
I know, Sony quality is notoriously bad, which is why I won't buy their DVD players. The promise of Sony is that you need to be a computer programmer and keep your editing computer internet free to run it properly, and even then there's too high a chance that, with a clean install of your operating system, you'll have errors, as I've seen people report. I'M GOING TO SPEND ALL NIGHT trouble shooting this mess so that I can try and edit two shoots before I'm off to another one tomorrow.
I know, Sony. Windows is a complicated beast. There's all too many configurations and resource conflicts that are just unforeseen. Many people use Vegas without problems, so it's obviously me.
And I spent $120 on a GeForce GTS 450 to take advantage of GPU acceleration, because the Radeon 6870 that I had wasn't recognized by Vegas, even though it's listed on their GPU acceleration page with exact specs as to how much faster rendering time is.
I know, Sony. Nothing can be done. It's impossible. You did everything you could. This has never happened before. I've got to be my own advocate, spend dozens of hours (done!) and hundreds of dollars, and learn the intricacies of computer hardware and software so that I can debug Sony Vegas. After all, that's what every startup software companies aspires to be-a huge waste of time and money for their adopters.
I really liked telling people how easy Vegas was to use and would recommend it to anyone. But I know, I've got to go fix the problem. Sony's hard at work every day. I've got a completely inaccessible piece of software that I use to make a living because of an avi.dll error. I should sell my three Canon Vixias for cameras that have a file format that works better with Vegas. I should get a codec pack to fix it. I should convert everything to wmv to edit.
If it's not clear, I want to emphasize how baffling it is that Vegas Pro 11, advertised as an upgrade, CHANGES THE ASPECT RATIO OF ALL MY FOOTAGE AND MAKES ME GO THROUGH EACH INDIVIDUAL CLIP AND CHANGE THEM BACK TO THEIR CORRECT ASPECT RATIO.
Why stop there, Sony? Why not go for broke, and replace all the audio from my clips with the sound of a toilet flushing? You only did half the job-really, a quarter, or even a fifth-when Vegas 11 changed the aspect ratio of all my clips. Sabotaging my work is a full time job, and there are plenty of people I can pay to do a better job of it than you. You could just put pop up ads in Vegas, install spyware, change the frame rate of all my footage, remove volume envelopes-I could go on, but you get the idea. There are literally thousands of things you could do to screw up my work, and there are far too many facets of Vegas that seem very simple to not screw up that need unfixing.
Screw you.
I have thousands of clips of footage from my three Canon Vixia HF S21s. They're in 1440x1080 resolution and an aspect ratio of 1.33. I use Cineform Neoscene to convert them from AVCHD to AVI.
When I drop any footage into the project media in Vegas 11, the aspect ratio for every clip is changed from 1.33 to 1. Vegas does what someone trying to sabotage my project is doing, and I've been civil about this in sending questions about it to technical support, but I'm getting so fed up since this is my livelihood, and I can't deliver projects to clients because of other bugs that Vegas 10 and 11 have.
Vegas 11 changes every clip-clips that are on my hard drive and in projects that I'm editing on 10, which are in the correct aspect ratio-and changes them. That's quite the business strategy. So if I am to use Vegas 11, I have to go through thousands of clips I shot and change the aspect ratio to 1.33.
To be clear, this is not a problem in the properties of the project. I can change the aspect ratio in the project to anything, and it doesn't fix it. I have the aspect ratio set to 1.33 in the project properties. It's the clips themselves that I have to right click on once they're in Vegas 11 and change one by one.
I got a response from Sony saying that the problem is fixed with the new upgrade that came out, apparently on Nov. 1st. I uninstalled Vegas 9, 10, and 11, installed 11, downloaded the upgrade, and I still have the same problem.
And by the way, I uninstalled Vegas because Vegas 10 and 11 are giving me avi.dll errors as soon as I open projects, meaning I can do no work.
I know, Sony quality is notoriously bad, which is why I won't buy their DVD players. The promise of Sony is that you need to be a computer programmer and keep your editing computer internet free to run it properly, and even then there's too high a chance that, with a clean install of your operating system, you'll have errors, as I've seen people report. I'M GOING TO SPEND ALL NIGHT trouble shooting this mess so that I can try and edit two shoots before I'm off to another one tomorrow.
I know, Sony. Windows is a complicated beast. There's all too many configurations and resource conflicts that are just unforeseen. Many people use Vegas without problems, so it's obviously me.
And I spent $120 on a GeForce GTS 450 to take advantage of GPU acceleration, because the Radeon 6870 that I had wasn't recognized by Vegas, even though it's listed on their GPU acceleration page with exact specs as to how much faster rendering time is.
I know, Sony. Nothing can be done. It's impossible. You did everything you could. This has never happened before. I've got to be my own advocate, spend dozens of hours (done!) and hundreds of dollars, and learn the intricacies of computer hardware and software so that I can debug Sony Vegas. After all, that's what every startup software companies aspires to be-a huge waste of time and money for their adopters.
I really liked telling people how easy Vegas was to use and would recommend it to anyone. But I know, I've got to go fix the problem. Sony's hard at work every day. I've got a completely inaccessible piece of software that I use to make a living because of an avi.dll error. I should sell my three Canon Vixias for cameras that have a file format that works better with Vegas. I should get a codec pack to fix it. I should convert everything to wmv to edit.
If it's not clear, I want to emphasize how baffling it is that Vegas Pro 11, advertised as an upgrade, CHANGES THE ASPECT RATIO OF ALL MY FOOTAGE AND MAKES ME GO THROUGH EACH INDIVIDUAL CLIP AND CHANGE THEM BACK TO THEIR CORRECT ASPECT RATIO.
Why stop there, Sony? Why not go for broke, and replace all the audio from my clips with the sound of a toilet flushing? You only did half the job-really, a quarter, or even a fifth-when Vegas 11 changed the aspect ratio of all my clips. Sabotaging my work is a full time job, and there are plenty of people I can pay to do a better job of it than you. You could just put pop up ads in Vegas, install spyware, change the frame rate of all my footage, remove volume envelopes-I could go on, but you get the idea. There are literally thousands of things you could do to screw up my work, and there are far too many facets of Vegas that seem very simple to not screw up that need unfixing.
Screw you.