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Help Please – (trying to put my Vegas projects in backup folders or on dvd)
Hello folks. I’m running into some issues when trying to take some of my Vegas projects and burn them to a DVD …. play them.. or even just move them to another external drive. Just wondering if any of you have run into this before or had any advice. I’ve googled but so far have not found anything that has helped. These files DEFINITELY worked up to 4 months ago and its about to drive me nuts as i can’t seem to figure out whats wrong.
Here are the 3 primary things that are happening:
1) trying to play a 15gig video i put together- It had worked at least 1 month ago and i had burned to dvd … now when trying to play it off my E drive by double clicking .. Windows Media player begins to pull it up . i hear about 1 sec of sound and then see this…”windows media player does not detect any storage media in the selected device.. insert media into device” This is my only copy of this completed video (a play).. and i need to make 40 copies for the folks in the play. 🙁2) when trying to burn some other video files w/ sonic my dvd …it runs for about 1 hr ..appears to be working …. and then says “could not compete last command because : invalid requested time (DVD Err, -19004)”
3) the last thing is that when trying to grab some avi’s and move them (to copy them) to another of my external hard drives i get a “cyclic redundency check” error.
If you guys have any ideas i’d so appreciate it. this is not happening with all my projects … but with probably 75%. Didn’t have probs til about maybe 2 weeks ago?
I have XP .. c drive primary… e drive internal .. and 2 external hard drives.
Thanks
Johnny -
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Just a thought, Have you tried restoring your system to a system restore point sometime before this problem started occuring?
Terry Esslinger
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Thanks Terry …. good idea .. not exactly certain on how to do that . but will look into it … might just do the trick. Apprec’ the help .. Johnny
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I’m not sure what you mean by “15Gb video” – is it a rendered avi, a project, an MPEG2?
Some symptoms may be related to data on an external drive becoming unavailable – this does happen with firewire sometimes – when you say the video is on E drive – is everthing on that drive, or could there be some components on an external.
– just having a few guesses ….
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Yes … sorry .. the 15g is an avi of a project i completed. All the files are avi’s that i had created w/ vegas of church and of some other projects. They all worked fine until just recently. Most are on a 2ndary drive i have internal to my pc (E drive). Just not sure whats going on and don’t want to lose all of these.
Thank you
Johnny -
If you are getting CRC errors it might mean that your harddrive is starting to go bad. This may be physical errors on the drive or logical errors in the file system. Is the harddrive making noises? Another problem may be the cable. If the cable is slightly bad you might also get CRC errors.
I would try to copy the problem files to a new drive, if the copy happens without errors, I’d try to play the files from the new drive. Just as a test. If this works, your drive is starting to go bad and you should get stuff off it ASAP and get a new drive.
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….or your DVD burner is going bad or you got some bad media (dvd blanks).
Why would you want to put AVI movies on a DVD and not make them DVD (MPEG-2) with menus in DVDA? 13gig is about 1 hour of AVI video so MPEG-2 would be smaller and you can get the highest quality of a DVD.
HA! At first reading I thought you were trying to back-up your Vegas Project files (VEG) on a DVD. Gee, you could get thousands of those on a DVD! 😉
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Hi … thank you for your post. I’ve got some major problems i think and its about to make me sick as i can’t get some of the files off of my 2ndary internal drive. I tried drag’ing and dropping my approx 1hr avi over to another drive and it gives me that cyclic redundency check error.
Also … another thing that has changed is that some of my file names in this drive have turned blue .. where others are still black. Any idea what that might mean?
Thank you for the help
Johnny -
[johnny S] “Also … another thing that has changed is that some of my file names in this drive have turned blue .. where others are still black. Any idea what that might mean?”
Sounds like you might also have compression turned on for that drive.
Edward Troxel
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Hi Mr. Troxel
Do you know possibly how i’d tell if i do have compression turned on? If i did it … it certainly was by accident as i don’t know the slightest about that. I sure appreciate the advice. Thank you
Johnny(its the project i finally finished with excalibur that i got from you that is on this 2ndary internal drive of mine that i can’t seem to “recover”. I was done with it … threw it on a dvd. to give to the person to review that i was going to make the multiple copies for … and now it won’t even play. (Other files too that are affected .. but this is certain the most critical 🙁
Again .. ty … and everyone for the help.
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Go to My Computer. Right-click the drive letter and choose Properties. There’s a checkbox on that screen that says “Compress drive to save disk space”.
Edward Troxel
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