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Copy to tape
I attempt to back up my completed projects to tape. I have had nothing but problems with this since ’07, and version 8. Today 8 isn’t even working…
I select my IEEE device (camera) and have Video at NTSC DV and Audio at 48KHz.
No selections on the next screen (except the default of “Use project output rotation setting”)
I select “Add test pattern leader”, and “Play 1 KHz tone with test pattern”.
I select “Crash Recording” and click finish.
I get a “Preparing to print to tape…” dialog.Now’s where it gets, um, fun…NOT. I get a number of results, none of which do what I am requesting.
1) I get an error dialog that says my file has a bad name. BOGUS.
2) It starts pretending like it is recording, but there is nothing showing on the camera.Any Ideas?
Dave
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I haven’t printed to tape in a long, long while (several years) but I do remember that I would pre-render the entire video first (Shift+M) so that all Vegas has to do is output the pre-rendered video files. Alternately, you could render the project to a DV AVI file and then use the DV Capture tool to print the file to tape.
~jr
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I haven’t printed to tape in a long, long while (several years)
OK, THAT raises another question – what do you do for backup? I backup my edited/completed project to tape.
you could render the project to a DV AVI file and then use the DV Capture tool to print the file to tape.
I always render my project to AVI. The reason I don’t uas the DV Capture tool is that it doesn’t give me the color bars… Maybe I just don’t need them?
Thank you,
Dave
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[Dave Turnidge] “OK, THAT raises another question – what do you do for backup? I backup my edited/completed project to tape. “
I back up all my work to external hard drives. The complete project folder so I can go back and make changes later if needed.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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“I back up all my work to external hard drives. The complete project folder so I can go back and make changes later if needed.”
So, you just keep the hard drives – forever???
Dave
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[Dave Turnidge] “So, you just keep the hard drives – forever???”
Yes, As long as I would have kept the tapes. Instead of a tape library you have a USB hard drive library.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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