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Need to re construct a 2 hour film
6 months ago I finished a 2 hour long wedding film. The clients were happy with the film but last week asked if I could reedit the first dance part of the film slightly differently – which I’m happy to do. The film was edited on Vegas 10, and fortunately I hadn’t deleted the footage files or project. I had however had a change of HDD and transfer of the files. I loaded the project, and made the reedit, encoded the new version out – and at this point realised that some of the shots earlier in the film have corrupted i.e. have swapped with another clip or a shot I don’t want in there – it looks like the transfer of HDD has thrown out Vegas knowing which event on the timeline belongs to which clip.
So, I don’t want to have to go back through the entire film, checking and replacing clips – it will take days. I don’t have the original rendered out m2v file, as I foolishly overwrote it with this corrupt file (lesson learnt). I do have copies of the original DVD and Bluray discs – can I rip them in Vegas, drop them on the timeline, replace the clip, and render out again without affecting the quality in any way? Or is there another solution out there?Regards
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I hear your pain. I had something like this happen as well with a 45 minute long production and 75% of my files have been disassociated from the project and replaced with different ones with the same name, but in different folders. You can use MPEG Stream Clip to capture the DVD into mpeg2 mpg or whatever format you want for editing and do it that way. There might be a small lose in quality though, but not noticeable from a consumer perspective. The re-linking of files is difficult at this stage, because Vegas has decided it knows which files go where and trying to tell it otherwise is on a clip by clip basis, unless you captured in large chunks of video. Hope someone may know a way to help. Good luck!
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Unfortunately this is a known issue for which Sony has no fix. It has happened to me in a couple wedding video projects as well, and I noticed it only happened when I was nesting veg files. In the projects I have done since without nesting, the problem has not occurred. It’s a real pain in the b*tt when it happens, and I ended up having to render out an m2t file once I completed the edit and before shutting down my PC.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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