"backwards compatible" help out there? (veg 5 down to veg 4 or earlier)

[jsabarese]

i have been working on a project in Vegas 5-- it started out in vegas 4, but i found that vegas 5 performed better, so i simply opened the old .veg files in the new version and continued. now that i'm ready for the mix-down production end, i'm encountering some problems. here's what i have been using:

XP Pro
512 MB RAM
1.1Ghz Athlon XP
40GB HDD + 40GB HDD Slave
Vegas 5 (and Vegas 4 at start of project)
Waves Platinum bundle DirectX plugins

i am using a fair amount of plugins on each track and if all track effects are enabled, i'm getting the choppy, snagging playback.

i decided to try something new. i installed a fresh copy of Win98se on one of my extra hard drives. i thought that perhaps i would get more resources and better performance from my available RAM and processor that way. but now that i'm ready to install Vegas-- oops!... it doesn't work on Win98!?!

so, i want to install an older version of Vegas-- but the vegas 5 project files aren't going to open in the older version.

does anyone know of a plugin, or perhaps 3rd party software which might process the Vegas 5 .veg files so that they can be re-opened in an older version of vegas?

thanks!
-js

 

[TimOBrien]

It is almost never that programs are backwards compatible. Would you expect the transmission of your car to fit into a ModelT???

The only way you could do it is to export all your tracks as simple .wav files for each instrument and then reimport them one at a time into the previous version (same for midi files.) And no, none of the settings, plug or envelopes or features will come through that way.

You're expecting too much....

 

[jsabarese]

thanks for your reply, but...
expecting too much? hardly! you think they told Les Paul that he was expecting too much when he was developing his concept of multitrack recording? c'mon.

is it available? obviously not as far as you know.

i realize all of that about the importing of raw wave files, etc-- hence my inquiry . i'm not that desperate yet. maybe next time i start a project, i'll try on Win98 to see if i notice any difference in the way that system resources are taxed.

i've actually nearly completed my project, albeit w/ a little bit of a handicap. i managed to do so by bypassing the plugins on tracks that were not being studied for volume peaks etc. i did it piece by piece. tedious indeed, but i think it came out okay.