Two versions installed - is it possible?

Post by **jparnold** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:19 pm

Is it possible to have two versions of VS installed on the same PC (eg v9 and v10+)? I am having trouble working out how to create a disk with menus etc using v10+ which is quite different from v9 and thought that if I could have two versions installed I could revert to v9 to create my disks until I get to understand v10+.

I am sure I noted that someone in this forum lists two versions in their signature. Whether or not they have them both installed on the one PC is another thing.

Lastly, with reference to Steve's fantastic help postings and particularly with reference to SPLIT BY SCENE (in his posting FROM CAMCORDER TO DVD with Video Studio). This can be done 'on the fly' whilst capturing video from a camera (creates separate video files for each clip) OR post capture which simply creates thumnails for each scene and leaves the original captured file (large) intact.
I have noted that when a large existing project contains many many clips cut from one or more large video files VS takes a long time to load the project. I can only assume that this is because that for each clip in the existing project VS reads the original (large) video file (to locate the clip) which it does repeatedly to find each clip. Does anyone know that if each clip is a separate small video file then an existing project will load faster? Hope I have explained that ok.
Regards
John

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:41 pm

HI John,

Yes you can have more then one version of VS installed. I'm one of several users that do. All the versions (except VS5) listed in my sig are currently installed. I'm not sure on your second question. I have not noticed that much difference in loading times. I think what may help is that I use a second harddrive for my video files and projects. So while loading the workload is shared between both.

Georg · Post by **Georg** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:47 pm

Yepp

I have on one computer VS9 and VS10 and on another VS8 and VS10.

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:32 pm

In fact, you might have to keep an old version available on your PC if you want to work on an old project that was created in that version. The versions of VS are not always backward compatible with projects created in earlier versions, partly because they do not always keep all of the transitions, effects, and special features from one version to the next. You can theoretically, for example, open a project file from VS8 in VS10 and continue working on it, but the one time that I tried it I found that I had effectively lost a lot of my work since not everything that I had used in VS8 was available in VS10 (various titling animation options changed, transition settings, etc.).

So I still have VS8 installed, and will keep it until I'm sure that I won't want to go back to my old projects.

Post by **jparnold** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:22 am

Thanks guys
I was concerned that some DLL files (or other types) may be written to the Windows or Windows/System directories which may clash between different versions.

LV_426 · Post by **LV_426** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:07 pm

jparnold wrote:Thanks guys
I was concerned that some DLL files (or other types) may be written to the Windows or Windows/System directories which may clash between different versions.

I suspect this may happen anyhow. Certainly, my VS9 began to behave differently (in particular, generating huge lipsync errors) after I installed the VS10+ trial.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:04 pm