Bryan, disable the automatic adjustment feature of preview (as Edward mentioned) by right-clicking anywhere in the preview window and unchecking "Adjust Size and Quality for Optimal Playback" and you can come back to Vegas 9 if you want to.

We had a thread (that has been closed) where people were discussing Vegas 9, and the reaction of most of the folks that weighed in seemed to be negative, mainly for playback issues.

In my case, AVCHD files playback far worse in Vegas 9 64 bit than 32 bit. And they definitely playback better on version 8.0c than version 9 32bit.

Others are finding it works fine for them. I suspect that the upgrade just isn't as compatible with some configurations as with others.

I have found myself using vegas 8 as the preview performance just isn't the same with 9 for me. Many of us are hoping that upon the first "fix" will remedy this problem.

Thanks for the thoughts guys, I also found the playback issues even when it was not overriding my settings. It just streams smoother in 8.0...I hope the update correct this and hope to see it soon. I saw your other thread after starting this up again and it looks like it got pretty ugly in there. I hope I am not opening a can of worms posting this here. The thread I saw had been sanitized so hopefully people have cooled off and will keep it civil.

Edward, I will look into your script, thanks! I am generally wary of scripts from msg boards but you come with trust from your status on this board.

I have a DV project coming soon, so i am looking forward to flexing 9.0 again with SD files this time...

Bryan there are actually many great scripts floating around for Vegas.

yeah I have heard of many and downloaded a few. But I am pretty close to paranoid when it comes to viruses so I am often wary of downloading anything from a stranger. Mostly because (like you) I built my own system so if I screw it up there is no tech support to call. I played around with V9 a little more last night but I am still having playback issues. It seems to either use more processor/ ram then V8 which hurts playback or the code just hasn't been tweaked enough to playback as good as V8. I am still running my core2quad and haven't taken the i7 plunge yet, to many other capital expenses this year. I like the New Blue pkg too but haven't found a good use for it yet. I have been looking pretty intently at the Production Assistant software too. Did you guys order it? What do you think of it, if you did?

I didn't order it, but that doesn't mean anything because I haven't studied it much nor have I heard any glowing reports. You might start a thread with the PA question.

I have Ultimate S, and I don't really need much more, though I am always open to new tools. The list of features for Production Assistant sounded so similar to Ultimate S it seemed to be reduntant to purchase.

If I had an unlimited budget I would have it just to check it out, but I don't so I won't.

I debated the new thread and just might do that. i have heard a lot of references to Ultimate S and might spend some time searching the board for more info on that. I hear you on the budget issue too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and to jump off topic for a moment, I found a thread you might want to look at (if you haven't already) http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/dv-info-n...eal-hdmom.html

Bryan, Ultimate S has a fully funcional demo so you can try and so does Excalibur. I'm not sure if they co-exist on the same installation well but I think they do.

The HD Mom thing I've seen (thanks for the link) I don't really feel one way or the other about the site. It is a quality forum of course, and Chris has done a fine job (as he always does) putting it together. I just don't know relevant it will be for me, but I will definitely be checking into it periodically to get a better feel for it.

Yes, both Excalibur and Ultimate S can be installed on the same machine. In fact, many people use both.

Seriously, if you haven't used scripts, you're really missing out on one of the great advantages of using Vegas. I can say that Excalibur has saved me many, many hours of editing time.

Disclaimer, I'm the author of Excalibur. In fact, many pieces of Excalibur were added because *I* needed to do something while editing.