Victor Urbach
January 22nd, 2005, 05:27 PM
I've been using Ulead MediaStudio for about 4 years now, but based on raves from many folks, I've been thinking about moving over to Vegas 5. To dip my toe in the water, I bought the "Vegas Movie Studio+DVD" entry-level package ($60 after rebate from J&R). Incredible bang for the buck, but I've found Sony tech support to be marginal. For example, I sent this (in my opinion) very detailed problem description seven days ago, and just received an (unhelpful) reply.
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I have VMS installed in its default directory: "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio 4.0." Everything appears to be working correctly, except I cannot "Make Movie" on my D: drive (which has about a hundred gig free.)
VMS will only create media files on my C: drive (which has about 10 gig free). I can save project files, media clips, etc., on D: but when trying to "Make Movie" on D: I get a dialog box titled "Invalid Path" that says:
"Read only or invalid path. Please correct it. [OK]"
Please note that D is a different physical disk. It's the only partition on a Western Digital 160GB 8MB cache IDE (not SATA). The C: drive in this computer is a 200GB Seagate IDE (not SATA). I am able to successfully save to other partitions on the physical disk that contains C.
This appears to be a problem specifically with the D drive, but it works perfectly in the other video editing applications I use (Serious Magic, Ulead, etc.). I'm running as administrator and permissions appear to be set correctly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled VMS. Please advise. Thank you.
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The (unhelpful) suggestion was to "navigate" to the D:\ drive instead of typing a path in the dialog box. I wrote back saying, "Thank you, but of course, I'd tried that before writing in for help." I've also done my normal Googling around, searching support forums, etc.
Still no joy...
Any ideas? I know I'm on "baby Vegas" but please don't sneer too much. I'm new here.
-Victor Urbach
P.S. VMS is loaded on my dedicated video computer, which has no antivirus, firewall, or flaky drivers installed, or "utilities" running. It's solid as far as I know.
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I have VMS installed in its default directory: "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio 4.0." Everything appears to be working correctly, except I cannot "Make Movie" on my D: drive (which has about a hundred gig free.)
VMS will only create media files on my C: drive (which has about 10 gig free). I can save project files, media clips, etc., on D: but when trying to "Make Movie" on D: I get a dialog box titled "Invalid Path" that says:
"Read only or invalid path. Please correct it. [OK]"
Please note that D is a different physical disk. It's the only partition on a Western Digital 160GB 8MB cache IDE (not SATA). The C: drive in this computer is a 200GB Seagate IDE (not SATA). I am able to successfully save to other partitions on the physical disk that contains C.
This appears to be a problem specifically with the D drive, but it works perfectly in the other video editing applications I use (Serious Magic, Ulead, etc.). I'm running as administrator and permissions appear to be set correctly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled VMS. Please advise. Thank you.
===
The (unhelpful) suggestion was to "navigate" to the D:\ drive instead of typing a path in the dialog box. I wrote back saying, "Thank you, but of course, I'd tried that before writing in for help." I've also done my normal Googling around, searching support forums, etc.
Still no joy...
Any ideas? I know I'm on "baby Vegas" but please don't sneer too much. I'm new here.
-Victor Urbach
P.S. VMS is loaded on my dedicated video computer, which has no antivirus, firewall, or flaky drivers installed, or "utilities" running. It's solid as far as I know.