Running old VS8 project under VideoStudio 9

[ranis]

Hello, I am trying to get some help about a problem I'm having with my old VideoStudio 8 projects. It seems they are not compatible with the new VideoStudio 9 version. I cannot run any of them with VS9. I'm only getting the following error message: "Failed to use Direct Show video engine. The operation cannot be performed because the pins are not connected. [13102:2:4]". I would appreciate any suggestions on how to solve this if it's possible. Thank you.
ranis

[sjj1805]

Although a newer version can open an earlier versions project the veterans of this forum always take the view that existing projects should be completed in the version from which they began.

Steve J

[ranis]

I will go back to my older version then. Actually I just did and because I had not opened my old projects for some time, now it said all files needed to be relinked. I figured out it's because of the daylight changes and installed the appropriate daylight fix update. All the ingredients of the projects were automatically relinked. However I cannot play a project now before first go through rendering. When i press play it starts to render. This used to happen only at the end, when I was ready to export the project into mpeg file. And now I can't even play a project without waiting some hours to render...

[Ron P.]

Hi Ranis,

Go to File>Preferences and change "High Quality" to "Instant" Playback.

Ron P.