Vegas Platinum 9 bug - won't open MP4 files larger then 2 gigs

Lowlypawn

Active member
I have noticed this bug in Vegas Platinum for quite some time and I finally got annoyed enough to E-mail Sony.

I wrote "Any GoPro-HD MP4 files larger then 2 gig Sony Vegas plat 9 gives the error "none of the files dropped on Vegas Movie Studio Platinum could be opened". But any files smaller then 2 gigs I have no issues with. I have been working around this issue by using AVIDEMUX to chop the files in half but this is a poor solution to a problem that shouldn't exits". And yes I use NTFS. Anyway Sony responded back with this.


Thank you for contacting Sony Creative Software.

Lets have you download and evaluate Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10 for this specific import issue. I am seeing this issue reported in our database for previous versions of Vegas Platinum but not the current version.

You may download the trial here: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/moviestudiope

If you still have a follow-up question on this particular incident, please feel free to update it. If you have a completely different question, please create a new incident.

Sincerely,

XXXX X.
Customer Service & Technical Support
Sony Creative Software Inc
www.sonycreativesoftware.com



So basically I'm suppose to just buy Platinum HD because the older version is bugged... That just struck me as kind of lame... They could of offered to give me a special deal if I upgrade. I really do want to upgrade to "Vegas Move Studio HD Platinum 10 Production suite" (God! could the name be any longer?) the image stabilization would be nice and $129 is it a good value for the money. Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and get Vegas Pro?

OR... Maybe I shouldn't give them any money for not standing behind their previous products. I understand you can't support a product forever but Plat 9 isn't that old. I duno, what do you think?
 
Well, I've never owned or used Platinum. I used Pro for 7 years. I found that the support wasn't really any different than what you just described.
 
Well I bitched about having to upgrade and said "can't you at least give me a discount". So they gave me 20% off. So I orders Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 Production Suite. $71.96, Probably not much cheaper then I could get off Amazon but oh well. Better then nothing.

I really want to use the deshaker and some other audio stuff. Hopefully the performance will be a little better also. I know I can use the deshaker in Virtualdub for free but I did some reading and it sounds like a pain to make Virtualdub play the MP4s (H.264) files. I'm trying to keep my work flow simple :).

I'll post a review in a few weeks :)
 
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