How to fix Adobe 2015 desctop icons

When I installed Adobe CC 2015, I was pretty excited! but then once the update was finished about half of the Adobe icons on my desktop were blank! I figured out how to fix this issue in 7 simple steps. 

 Step 1:

Right click on an Adobe icon that is blank, at the bottom of the drop down menu, click on 'properties' 

 Step 2:

This window will come up

 Step 3:

In the 'Target' field you will find the location of the program, except it will still be looking for a 2014 folder, which no longer exists. 

 Step 4:

Change the '2014' to '2015'

Step 5:

Repeat this action for the'Start in' field. Find where it says '2014' and change it to '2015'

 Step 6:

Click 'OK' and the icon should have returned. 

Step 7:

Repeat step 1-6 for all other icons that are blank. This should restore all of your icons to their former glory. 

I hope this helped! 

Hating Sony Vegas Pro SO much right now

Anyone who has done some research into video editors will probably know about Sony vegas Pro. Vegas Pro claims to be a professional grade piece of editing software and it has served me well over small gameplay edits, or even editing with 720p footage. However over the last few days I have tried to accomplish an edit that is a little more ambitious, an edit that involves full HD gameplay video and screenshots, a chroma key effect and overlaying footage. So what does Sony Vegas Pro do when you give it content that is 'outside its comfort zone'? basically it throws a tantrum and refuses to work.

An edit that could have been completed in a day took over two and a half days due to footage lagging so bad, some of it had to be analysed and trimmed, viewing the video FRAME BY FRAME. When you are dealing with video that lasts anywhere from 1:30 to 3:00 you DO NOT want to be watching it frame by frame. 

Now when I say it lagged, I'm not just talking about the preview window, that I could have lived with. It was the WHOLE PROGRAM that lagged! when I wanted to slide footage into place, open the clipper, split video, delete or do just about ANYTHING in this edit, Vegas Pro decided that since it has some hard HD gameplay footage, that it does not want to cooperate. 

SO much of the edit session had to be redone with constant crashes, and cases where Vegas Pro stopped responding. If anyone does read the feedback you write when Vegas stops responding, then they will; have to suffer the wrath of two messages of non satisfactory feedback from me. Throughout the edit, Vegas froze too many times to count and crashed about 10 times all up... yeah.  

Finally, through all the lagging, freezing and crashes I finally finish the edit, with everything where I want it, and so I go to render, it looks great! until the end. The way the end was supposed to work was that I was to have a montage of gameplay footage overlaying myself, but bits and pieces of that footage were not showing, I discovered later that while it was there in the editor, online, acknowledged as the correct file type, Vegas simply decided not to show it. just 'cause.    

I decided to move all of the 'invisible' footage to a place where if vegas decided to show it, it would look good, but it would also be fine if Vegas decided to continue its hissy fit. So I rendered the whole 15 minute video again and Vegas decided to throw something new at me! just as the rendering process was at about 95% rendering ceased, and Vegas gave me an error message, stating that rendering could not continue due to 'lack of memory'. Firstly let mew tell you that a video, even at that length being rendered at 720p will NOT take up the whole 660GB I have left to my harddrive. But I humoured the software and deleted some previous render attempts of the same video, rendering stopped at 2% stating it could not render die to 'unknown error' so basically Sony Vegas Pro flipped the bird in the most epic way it could imagine. 

I closed the software, opened it again, lowered the quality of video that it will be rendering to, and finally, after a reasonable, error free waiting time, it renders, but guess what? MORE INVISIBLE FOOTAGE!, bumps that make it look like the screen has been impaled with a rock, and best of all, the audio went out of sync, which it the best thing ever when you are editing video of yourself talking (massive sarcasm moment). 

At the moment I am rendering the video section by section, whilst this is not ideal, the sections of the video are coming out ok, all footage present, no glitchy remarks and audio in sync. Hopefully when I put these parts back into Vegas pro, the decrease of video quality will allow the program to render without fault.  

This project has made me realise two things:

One, just because I invested into a powerful gaming PC does not mean that it will do well in editing.

Two, once I save up for a decent editing laptop, I should also invest in Adobe creative cloud, sorry Sony, but after this project, I don't want to be held back by your software... your $600 software...

EDIT: GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It still produces glitchy renders, I have decided I have spent too much time tiptoeing around these difficult video files, I have deleted all of them, now all I have left is the video without the gameplay footage. I just redownloaded the gameplay footage at a smaller quality and it works just fine. Still though Sony Vegas Pro, get your sh*t together.  

     

AMPLIFIED Survival Series

Here is the playlist for a new series I am making called AMPLIFIED Survival, basically the aim of this series is to survive in an AMPLIFIED generation in Minecraft. This is easier said than done in a world where Mountains exceed the clouds, resources are hard to reach and getting from point A to point B includes climbing 3 insanely huge mountains and dying 5 times... I hope to make this a series with many episodes :) keep coming back to this post to see if I have updated, or subscribe to my channel (link in navigation)

Cube World

Guess what game I got?! in case the title of this post and attached photo are not enough hints, the game I got is Cube World, a 3rd person, sandbox, fantasy RPG. This little critter in the photo is my first avatar, a human ranger.

Frankly I had forgotten this game even existed, it had such a large amount of hype! then it all just disappeared! after a few months I remembered it and wondered if it was being continued on, as it happened, it was being worked on, and is available to buy as an Alpha (for approx $25 AUD)

On first entering the game, as the wiki suggested, I died a lot... I mean a LOT! I found that everything in the game was stronger than me, anything that I stood a remote chance against only gave me 1xp upon killing it. Once I got to level 2, made some potions and found a city, my fighting skill, power and confidence were raised enough to be better at battle. I'm still not the strongest thing in the world, but I sure ain't the weakest ;)

I recently emailed the developer of Cube World asking if they allow video monetization, of they do you can bet your bottom dollar that you will be seeing a lot of this!