missing AVCHD templates

[Wayne Waag]

I presume these are ones that you’ve created and those are the ones missing? The location for the templates you create are “C:UsersWayneAppDataRoamingSonyRender Templates”. Go to that location,using your user name, and see if those templates are still there. If not, they have to be recreated. If they are still in that location, make sure you have logged in as the user associated with those templates. If that doesn’t work, try a system restore to a previous time when they were working.

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[Norman Black]

Also make sure you have not accidentally clicked “show favorites only” in the render as dialog. Or any of the other filter check options. These filters might hide your templates and these check options are sticky.

[John Rofrano]

[Norman Black] “Also make sure you have not accidentally clicked “show favorites only” in the render as dialog. Or any of the other filter check options. These filters might hide your templates and these check options are sticky.”

+1

I’m guessing you have a filter set that is hiding them. Also check that “show only compatible templates” is not checked.

~jr

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[Danilo Deriu]

i’ts not only the ones that i’ve created that disappeared, even the default ones disappeared
how do i do a restore?

[Danilo Deriu]

i do not have any filters on

[Bob Peterson]

Have you tried accessing the templates with a previous project where you know they were available and that they worked? If they show up for the previous project, perhaps there is something different about this gopro file.

[Wayne Waag]

i’ts not only the ones that i’ve created that disappeared, even the default ones disappeared
how do i do a restore?

Before doing a system restore, make sure that everything is backed up and programs are closed. Here are the steps for Win 7:
1. Left-click Start Button
2. Right click Computer and select Properties
3. In upper left window, left click on System Protection
4. This will bring up the System Properties Window
5. Left click on System Restore. This will start a wizard leading you through the process. Select a restore point when your system was working OK.
Just be aware that restoring to a previous time will delete any program changes that have since been made. There is an option to scan and see what programs would be affected. Good luck.

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[Bob Peterson]

It would, of course, be far better to have an actual back up to fall back on. My current backup program is Acronis True Image which has saved me on several occasions. Windows backup/restore has not been particularly effective in most cases.

[John Rofrano]

[Bob Peterson] “My current backup program is Acronis True Image which has saved me on several occasions. “

+1

Acronis True Image is worth it’s weight in Gold! Saved me several times as well. Back when I used a Windows workstation I had it set up to do daily incremental backups so I was never more than a day away from having my workstation work exactly as it did yesterday.

Now that I use a Mac, Apple’s Time Machine performs incremental backups hourly! It automatically rolls hourly into daily, into weekly, into monthly backups. It’s an awesome backup strategy that comes with the OS. Blows away Microsoft’s pitiful system restore.

Here is something most PC users don’t know: A Mac can restore from a bare drive and nothing else!!! That’s right. I can have a hard drive crash, buy a new drive and place it into my Mac and boot with no OS! The Mac has enough information in ROM to connect to Apple’s servers, bootstrap a small kernel and install the latest OS from Apple’s servers, then prompts you to connect to your Time Machine backup and completely restore your computer. Once you use a Mac you’ll wonder how to tolerated Windows ineptness as an OS (sorry to preach but I couldn’t resist) 😉

~jr

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[Wayne Waag]

@Bob

It would, of course, be far better to have an actual back up to fall back on. My current backup program is Acronis True Image which has saved me on several occasions.

Agree completely. I also use Acronis for weekly backup of my OS, although quite frankly, I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to use it, if ever. Guess I’ve been lucky. I also do daily backups of all data and project files using a very old piece of software called Backup Magic Editor, which I have used fairly often. It’s easy to really delete something in Vegas, and not send it to the Recycle Bin. Actually, that would be a useful option.

@jr

(sorry to preach but I couldn’t resist)

Let’s face it. You’re the stereotypical MAC user–always touting your toys–the 1% of the computer world. My son-in-law is just like that. My daughter, at least, is still a PC user, although I’m afraid that by co-habitating with a Mackie, she may become infected one day. All kidding aside, that is pretty neat about restoring your OS online, although it would seem a lot slower than restoring from another hard drive, especially if you have a slow internet.

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