Posted by Smarty on 02/01/08 15:54

T.B.

Unfortunately, Sony's official support forum for Vegas is absolutely
littered with messages from people like you who have had about the same
disappointing experience trying to use the latest Vegas with Vista. As you
have no doubt already seen, XP users are NOT having these problems, and
Vista compatibility is certainly the culprit.

If it were me, I would install XP on the machine, then Vegas, and solve the
problem. Since Sony has made unsupportable claims regarding Vista
compatibility, you may consider contacting Sony and demanding a refund, or,
alternately, seek a return and refund to your credit card from the place you
purchased Vegas.

Vista has been around a relatively short time, and building a video editing
system on a new OS, before the first service pack release, is a very tricky
and dangerous choice. Sony and many other companies who deliver video
editing and authoring software still can't get it entirely right for XP even
though it has been around for the better part of the decade.

Smarty


"T.B." <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:47a26548$0$17369$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>
>> "T.B." wrote ...
>>>I recently bought Sony Vegas Studio 8 specifically because it's
>>>advertised as being Windows Vista compatible, plus I have an older
>>>version of Vegas and for the most part, really liked the software and had
>>>few if any problems with it.
>>>
>>> However, once I installed the software, it fails to initiallize, and
>>> crashes as it's loading the "audio engine."
>> ....
>>> By reading many other threads on several a/v forums, I can see that my
>>> problem of Vegas 8 crashing during application start-up under Windows
>>> Vista is far from an isolated case.
>> ....
>>> I specifically bought this new version of Vegas because it said on the
>>> box it was Vista compatible. Obviously, it's not judging by the number
>>> of customers with the same problem.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a solution for this issue yet?
>>
>> We have already conducted several "intervetions" and saved
>> friends who had become "Vista Victims". Dunno if Vista will
>> ever be production-worthy at this rate.
>
> Tell me about it. I'm a graphic artist and buying a new pc with Vista
> pre-installed has wound up costing me a lot of extra money and aggravation
> dealing with upgrading costly programs like QuarkXPress that will run on
> and supposedly be supported by the new OS.
>
> T.B.

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