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corrupt .veg file? Help!
Here’s the error message I get when I try to open my project file:
An error occured while trying to load the project file ****.veg.
An error occured while reading the file. Make sure you have read access to the file/folder and that it is not corrupted.
This is a major project I have been working on for nearly a month now. I have several different file types I’m working with including .mpg, .mp4 .avi, .wav, .mp3, .jpg that I’ve pulled from various sources.
Currently, I have about 23 minutes of audio on the timeline on about 10 different tracks, although only 1 track has a full 23 minutes on it, the other tracks have sound effects on them and are not full. I also have about 11 minutes of video layed down between 2 tracks.
I just updated to version d this weekend, got the corrupted file message, reverted back to version b, and am still getting the same message now.
I am wondering if this error message indicates a corrupt file within my project media and vegas is getting stuck when it encounters it while trying to open the project file, or if the project file itself is corrupt.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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6 Replies
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Look for the backup project in the same folder. It will have an extension of .veg.bak. Copy it to a new name .veg and see if that opens. Also if you feel it’s the media, copy the .veg file to a new folder and open it. If the project is not corrupt, it should prompt you for the missing media. If the project won’t open, it’s the project file itself that’s corrupt. Good luck.
~jr
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I have tried the following with no success:
Moving and renaming the .bak file to .veg.
Moving the source media and opening the project file.
I am still getting the same error message once the .veg file opens to 25%.
Should I consider the .veg file itself to be corrupt at this point with no other work-around options? And if so, what could cause the .veg file to corrupt so if its something I am doing wrong, I can try to avoid doing in the future.
I have had no stability issues with Vegas in the past except for this paticular project, which is significantly larger than anything I have done previously.
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I would contact Sony Tech Support and see if they can recover the .veg file for you. I don’t think it was anything you could have done.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks John, I have started a dialogue with Sony Tech Support and am still working with them, but so far, none of their suggestions have worked.
Just reposting in the hope someone else might have any other suggestions or has successfully overcome this same error.
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Did you get any luck in the end through Sony? I am having the same problem at this moment and it’s pretty upsetting.
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Sorry it took me so long to respond…
Essentially, the problem with my project was I had so many different files in my project media, Vegas was overwhelmed when it tried to either open the project file or render.
Here’s what I did:
With Vegas running, pull up the task manager and check ‘processes’ (windows), you’ll see something called ‘FileIOSurrogate’ or similar. Basically, this process is how Vegas “points” to the actual files used in the project media window. When I was having problems, ‘FileIOSurrogate’ was running around 800,000 – 900,000K. To get things running smooth again, I had to drop it down around 200,000 – 300,000.
My project was about 24 minutes long and had over 200 different files in project media including 4 different video file types, narration audio clips, music clips, sound fx, etc.
Once it got to the point where Vegas would freeze trying to open the project file, I had to move the location of the source files so Vegas wouldn’t “see” them when it opened. When the dialogue window came up during opening process, I chose to ignore all missing files and open the project. Then I told Vegas where to look for just the narration audio files and I rendered those to a single mp3. I removed all the individual narration audio files and replaced them with the single narration mp3 I rendered which reduced the size of the FileIOSurrogate process.
I repeated this process and rendered my soundtrack into a single file and as many sections of my video as I could into single files and then removed the individual files from project media until the FileIOSurrogate process reduced and Vegas stopped locking up…and I could render the entire project without a problem.
Someone with a better technical understanding of Vegas may be able to explain what was actually causing my problem, but that’s my low-tech explanation.
Hope that helps, I know I was very frustrated with this issue for about 2 weeks.
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