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Backing up preferences
by Chris Page on Jun 20, 2009 at 1:19:38 pm

Hi

I want to know if there is a way i can get the settings i have from Sony Vegas 8 into Sony Vegas 9? Im using Windows Vista 64.

I have custom render output settings and Special FX settings that i want to backup too?

Thanks

-Chris

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Mike Kujbida on Jun 20, 2009 at 11:20:16 pm

All the custom render settings I had in Vegas 6 followed to Vegas 7 and again to Vegas 8 with no problem.
However, only 1/2 of them (or less) followed to Vegas 9 :-(
I opened a support ticket (aka bug report) with Sony and didn't get nay satisfaction so I gave up on it.
I know I'm not alone as several other users have experienced the same problem.
One friend (a lot more computer savvy than I am) has opened a support ticket with Sony but I haven't heard back from him yet.

If your Special FX settings are part of a chain (i.e. more than one FX), you can use Preset Manager (it's free) to move them from V8 to V9.

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Chris Page on Jun 21, 2009 at 3:09:35 pm

Hi Mike,

Thanks for posting, I was going to contact Sony myself but thought I would ask here - in case I was over looking something.

If you hear back from Sony with a response I would really like to hear what they say. And im sure other people out there would too.

I will give that Preset Manager a go. But another reason I wish to backup all my settings is so when I upgrade my computer. I can copy over all the settings.

Im sure there must be settings hidden away in the windows User folder or something!!! As them settings must be saved somewhere?

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Mike Kujbida on Jun 21, 2009 at 11:18:40 pm

Chris, Sony's response to my Custom Render preset question was to follow the step in the Knowledgebase article titled How Do I: Recreate your custom presets on Video FX and transitions.

After me telling them 3 times that it's custom render presets and not video FX presets that I was having issues with and them telling me to follow this article, I gave up :-(

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Chris Page on Jul 1, 2009 at 4:22:59 pm

Hi Mike,

Im not to sure what copy of Window your running. But i found where all my presets are in Vista :)

I found they are in fact hidding away in this location

C:users*Chris*AppDataRoamingSonyFile Templates

Then in there are all your output render setting and also your templates for FX :)

Now all i need to do is work out how to get them into Vegas 9 hahaha

Im sure if you made a preset in 9 and tryed to trace that down. You could then just copy these presets over to where SV 9 puts them?

-Chris

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Mike Kujbida on Jul 1, 2009 at 5:20:46 pm

Thanks Chris.
I'm using XP Pro and, until Vegas 8, they were in
C:Documents and SettingsMikeApplication DataSonyFile Templates

With the introduction of Vegas Po 9 though, they're now in
C:Documents and SettingsMikeApplication DataSonyRender Templates

Not only that but the extension has been changed from *.sft to *.sft2

I've tried copying and renaming them but it doesn't work :-(

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Re: Backing up preferences
by James Redmond on Dec 23, 2009 at 10:04:28 pm

Any solutions to backing up preferences since this was written several months ago? I have the same issue - about 30 rendering preferences from Vegas 8, none read in Vegas 9 after copying them to the rendering folder...

Thanks!

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Mike Kujbida on Dec 23, 2009 at 11:40:56 pm

Sad to say James but nothing yet :-(
As a matter of interest, 9.0c made things even worse for me (even less custom presets than with 9.0b).

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Re: Backing up preferences
by Tim Tim on Oct 18, 2012 at 8:59:44 am

All your previous Colour correction settings are sitting right over here:

C:\Users\user\Documents\OFX Presets\com.sonycreativesoftware_colorcorrector\Filter

;)

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