How to change media path?

[Michae Biggins]

There must be an easier way….

When done with an edit I am backing up the entire project to an external portable hard drive (clicking the include media).

But then what happens is sometimes when I go to edit on my laptop or anyther system, either the hard drive letter is different or I copy from the portable the entire directory of media and project onto the laptop.

Then I open the project and it wants me to MANUALLY click on every piece of media (since the path letter is different… this is dumb it should just look in the directory that it was opened in or or allow me to point to the path ONCE and then find all the files.. not EVERY SINGLE clip..

Sometimes I have hundreds and hundreds of clips in a project I can’t sit there doing this

Help?!?

[John Rofrano]

[Michae Biggins] “Then I open the project and it wants me to MANUALLY click on every piece of media (since the path letter is different… this is dumb it should just look in the directory that it was opened in or or allow me to point to the path ONCE and then find all the files.. not EVERY SINGLE clip..”

I work with another editor who uses different drive letters and all I do is tell Vegas to search for the missing media and tell it the drive letter. Once it finds it, it asks if the next piece of media should be taken from the same folder and I say Yes and I’m done. Two clicks and everything is in sync again. I’m not sure why you are having so much trouble with it.

~jr

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[Michae Biggins]

Can you please explain how you do this? Where and under what menu you do you tell it to do this search for all media?

[John Rofrano]

[Michae Biggins] “Can you please explain how you do this? Where and under what menu you do you tell it to do this search for all media?”

When you open the project and it sees that there is missing media it will present you with a window that asks what you want to do. You want to select the “search for media” option and follow the prompts.

~jr

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[Chris Morley]

I have a similar problem where i use Vegasaur to archive a project that contains about 10 nested projects. All of those nested projects also contain at least one nested project (one of them will usually contain around 20 nested projects (wedding introduction sequence) so i have nested projects within nested projects. Now, when i move this archived file to another drive, for backup or duplication, i have real problems with opening the file as the drive path has changed. I then need to go into EVERY project and ‘re-connect’ the media. This is fine when it’s one project that contains media from one folder but when i have all those small nested projects that need opening it’s a real pain.

Is there any script, or something, that can make it easy to just change the drive letter for the whole project?? All the folder names are the same, it’s just that first drive letter!!

Any ideas?

[Juan Hernandez]

Yes, I am having similar problems. Only in my case, I have upgraded from Sony Vegas 9 Pro to Sony Vegas 12 PRO. Now I know 12 can read 9 project files, only I get missing media and placing new paths to find em is not working.

So, I did it manually but now I get this WARNING:

Warning: An error occurred while loading the project file ******.veg(name of project file)

The item was not found.

Clicked on details and all that I manually replaced shows missing.
On media that was detected, there are blocks and noise artifacting. I really wish Sony would make a save project as option…this gets old when crap happens and you need to recover your work or when you had to wipe out hard drive.

I am guessing to manually replace them in the project media viewport…are there any other suggestions one may have?

[John Rofrano]

[Juan Hernandez] “I have upgraded from Sony Vegas 9 Pro to Sony Vegas 12 PRO. Now I know 12 can read 9 project files, only I get missing media and placing new paths to find em is not working.”

As a general rule of thumb, you should not upgrade versions of any software when you are in the middle of a project *especially* when you are jumping 3 versions ahead. (That is asking for a lot) While Vegas Pro 12.0 can read Vegas Pro 9.0 projects, your best bet is to finish your Vegas Pro 9.0 projects in Vegas Pro 9.0.

[Juan Hernandez] “I am guessing to manually replace them in the project media viewport…are there any other suggestions one may have?”

That would seem like the only guaranteed way to recover at this point other than using Vegas Pro 9.0 to finish the project.

~jr

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[Joseph Windowstosky]

[John Rofrano] “No. Once two events have been assigned the same piece of media there is no way to reassign them again. You’ll have to add the new media as a take and then remove the old take.”

Old thread, but I’m sharing this in case anyone runs into it.

To try to untangle this kind of thing:

Let’s say you have two folders of media with the same name. Let’s call them Folder A and Folder B. You have accidentally told Vegas to link your clips all to the ones in Folder B, but properly, some were A and some were B.

1. Insert Empty Event at the very beginning of the timeline on one of the affected tracks. This will ensure you are placing everything correctly.

2. Group and Copy all the Should Be Folder A clips into a new blank veg, including the empty event. Save.

3. Rename Folder B temporarily.

4. Return to your new project and it will ask where the files are. Tell it Folder A. Save.

5. Rename Folder B back.

6. In your main project, delete the group of clips you copied out.

7. Go to the beginning of the project and the proper track and paste in the repaired events and the empty event, making sure the empty event anchors exactly in place. Undo until the paste works perfectly. If you did this right, it should stick them exactly back where they were, and fades/transitions/etc should be minimally affected.