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reloading project
Hello,
I have been keeping certain projects on my computer for quite some time. Although I’m up to 7 hard drives now I’m out of space!
I have a question which is probably a very silly one but here it goes anyway…
If I delete the raw footage from my files but still have the vegas file, then I re-load the footage – will everything fall back into its place? Will it do so even if I didn’t capture the tape from the very beginning in the origional capture?
It seems logical that this would happen, but since the “clip” time code always starts at 00:00 I am not sure.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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4 Replies
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Much the same as for all of us I’m sure – space is always a premium.
If you do save your veg file and at a later stage recapture your footage, you should be back to square one. However, it is imperative you follow the same capture procedure to ensure you obtain the same files (timecodes and naming) you had before – otherwise its going to go out of kilter. Clip naming conventions must be consistent.
Its always a good idea to print (or save) the details of the veg file for later use. Go View|Edit Details and select “Events” from the “Show” field. Highlight all the lines and then copy and paste in Excel or similar which will give you a good record of your project.
If you capture your footage to a different place than before, you can then point the veg file to the location of the footage and all should be plain sailing from there.
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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If you simply delete the footage, the next time you open the project Vegas will ask what you want to do. One of those options is recapture. However, if you originally did a “Capture tape”, you might run into problems recapturing from the very beginning of the tape as batch capture likes to have pre-roll space.
I always batch capture and save the SFVIDCAP file. This allows easily recapturing at any point.
Edward Troxel
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Ah-ha – now that’s the edit decision list I’m used to – I tried to do an EDL from vegas and it was a bunch of gobbeldy-goop. This is perfect.
Thank you both for your input.
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What Vegas did to my feature film when I tried to re-capture video from my camera tapes, was to distroy clip data on some tapes. Not just miss some clips, or capture them with drop-outs, but capture a clip as PAL instead of NTSC and change the timecode capture data many hours off. Sony could not help,
Ed saved me by telling me about the “replace clip feature”.
I had to create new project and tape bins and exactly the same timecode data, entered by hand, then capture and replace the damaged clips. As the new/replacement clips recaptured perfectly, the computer,the capture card, deck etc, were not the problem. My old veg progect files were saved to cd. They had No viruses, I sent a copy to sony to check for hidden problems and they said the file was fine. They were very good about e-mailing me to check if I still had a problem, but could not find an answers. (or give me the “Replace clip work-around)I now save big jobs to two external hard drives and have one turned off when working with the other.
Vegas is a great program, as with all software, you just have to learn where the bugs are.
Greg
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