VirtualDub ruined my Sony Vegas
by Cristina Alexandra
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Sep 3, 2008 at 7:52:47 pm
Videos won’t load. All was fine until yesterday, when I installed VirtualDub and some codecs to convert a mkv file to avi. Today when I opened a vegas project, the video wasn’t loading. So I started to erase all the things I installed, but VirtualDub said some registry files couldn’t be deleted. After this, I tried to open the Vegas project again. Now some videos are loading, some not. Is this because VirtualDub? What can I do? ( Being pissed because I couldn’t erase all, I deleted the VirtualDub folder, and now I can’t even try again to clean the remaining files ). Please help...I don't want to lose all my work
Re: VirtualDub ruined my Sony Vegas by Laszlo Kovacs on Sep 3, 2008 at 8:18:16 pm
Hi,
Virtualdub itself doesn't need to be installed, it just runs from the directory you copy it to, and it surely does not hurt Vegas in any way.
What could cause your problem is that "some codecs".
I bet it's a codec-pack.
I generally recommend against codec packs, as I've seen (well, it was rather Kaspersky lab:)) trojans in so called codec packs.
I see you tried to remove things...
If you manually deleted some parts of the installed anything, the uninstall may fail.
You could install the same thing to the same directory, don't delete then anything manual, just do a regular uninstall.
You have a good chance that the uninstall will work.
In case, it fails:
If you install something, mostly there's a restore point created automatically. Try to do a system-restore, if it does not work, you still have the option to do a clean install.
It just takes some time, doesn't mean necessary loose all your work.
Re: VirtualDub ruined my Sony Vegas by Steve Rhoden on Sep 3, 2008 at 8:37:25 pm
Seems that you have accidentaly deleted some of the files needed or
that comprised parts of your vegas project,thats why thats happening.
As Laszlo said "Virtualdub itself doesn't need to be installed, it just runs from the directory you copy it to, and it surely does not hurt Vegas in any way." so its puzzling that you got that
message about cannot delete from registry....you where deleting something else!
See if you have a restore point available before the problems
started or before you started deleting files...and restore to
then.
Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
www.youtube.com/hentys
