Copying AVI file to external drive

[Danny Hays]

Try right clicking on it and click copy, then click on the external drive and right click and paste. Hope this helps. Danny

[Terry Esslinger]

Are you saying that you want to transfer a movie that you rendered in Vegas (“Vegas produced video”)to an external drive so you can transport the movie? If so what did you render it as? Unless you used a lossless codec you are going to get loss of resolution when your friend edits the video and rerenders it. Or did you just capture the video with Vegas (actually VidCap) and you want to send the raw video to him/her for editing? In either case you should be able to open up the file where the video is and just drag it to your external drive.

[Don Hutcheson]

Thank you for answering. I discovered the problem: Windows Vista (in “My Computer”) presents the outboard (portable drive) drive along side and as identical to the built-in drives (“above the line” in “My Computer”) and graphically presented a portable drive below the line when there wasn’t one connected. I was trying to work with the representation of the portable drive. Silly me to think the icon of a portable drive represented the portable drive I plugged in.

But you raise a good point: I rendered the file as AVI, since that has less compression than MPEG2. Is there a lossless codec available in Vegas that will create an uncompressed copy that can be read by an MAC?

Incidentally, I’m editing in Vegas 8. At work, I have Vegas 7 and it won’t recognize my HiDef camera (Sony HVR Z-1U). I get a message that says: “The device “Microsoft AV/C Tape Subunit” could not be opened. Please make sure it is turned on and not in use by another application”.
I know this is a Vegas problem, because my old Roxio 10 will happily download HD files (with God knows what level of compression).

Many Thanks

Hutch