pack vegas file

[Mike Kujbida]

File – Save As, click the “Copy Media with project” box in the bottom left and choose the desired options.
All media used in the project will be saved to the specified folder.
Transfer this to the new computer and open the project.
You’ll probably need to tell Vegas where the files are located but once this is done, it will load as expected.

[John Rofrano]

Use File | Save As… and check the box at the bottom that says: [x] Copy media with project and be sure to specify a different folder!!! This will copy everything into that one folder. Then you can ZIP the folder up and take it to another computer. Alternately, just point to a new folder on a USB drive have it copy the files there. Be careful with using USB drives because unless you reformat them to NTFS, they will use FAT32 and have a file size limit of 4GB so any video file larger than 4GB will not get copied (or more cause the copy to fail).

~jr

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[Stephen Mann]

Also –
You only need to copy the media once. As long as both PC’s have the original media files, all you need to pass between them is the veg file. Easily handled in an email attachment.

Steve Mann

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

Good point. Also, if you do use an external drive to move work back and forth, make sure that Windows mounts the external drive as the same drive letter on both machines to avoid having to constantly search for files. You can do this with the Disk Management tool in Windows.

~jr

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[Tyson Onaga]

Another way to get around this is to do your work using SUBSTituted drives. Instead of using the physical drive letter, use a SUBST-d one. E.g.,

T:\: => H:\MyStuff\Temp
V:\: => I:\MyStuff\Core
W:\: => I:\MyStuff\Work
X:\: => H:\MyStuff\External

Here, the work is split over 2 HDs using 4 different SUBST drives. You could plug H and I into a different machine, or copy them to different HDs and plug those into a different machine, etc. As long as you reSUBST T:, V:, W:, X: properly on the new machine, Vegas will find all your files.

[Stephen Mann]

Good point. Also, if you do use an external drive to move work back and forth, make sure that Windows mounts the external drive as the same drive letter on both machines to avoid having to constantly search for files. You can do this with the Disk Management tool in Windows.

I’ll do you one better. Here’s a batch file that makes the current drive letter “B:” Put this in the root of your portable drive, and when Windows finds the drive, double-click on the batch file and open drive B: in Windows Explorer.

Most of my projects are run on 1Tb drives in a desktop external USB dock. I generally never know which drive letter that Windows will assign to the drive in the dock. So, with this batch file, every project is on drive “B:”.

It’s my new floppy drive.

@ECHO OFF
:: MakeDriveB.BAT
::
:: Substitutes CURDRIVE with NEWDRIVE
::
SET NEWDRIVE=B
::
SET CURDRIVE=
CD | CHOICE /C:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 SET CURDRIVE=A
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 SET CURDRIVE=B
IF ERRORLEVEL 3 SET CURDRIVE=C
IF ERRORLEVEL 4 SET CURDRIVE=D
IF ERRORLEVEL 5 SET CURDRIVE=E
IF ERRORLEVEL 6 SET CURDRIVE=F
IF ERRORLEVEL 7 SET CURDRIVE=G
IF ERRORLEVEL 8 SET CURDRIVE=H
IF ERRORLEVEL 9 SET CURDRIVE=I
IF ERRORLEVEL 10 SET CURDRIVE=J
IF ERRORLEVEL 11 SET CURDRIVE=K
IF ERRORLEVEL 12 SET CURDRIVE=L
IF ERRORLEVEL 13 SET CURDRIVE=M
IF ERRORLEVEL 14 SET CURDRIVE=N
IF ERRORLEVEL 15 SET CURDRIVE=O
IF ERRORLEVEL 16 SET CURDRIVE=P
IF ERRORLEVEL 17 SET CURDRIVE=Q
IF ERRORLEVEL 18 SET CURDRIVE=R
IF ERRORLEVEL 19 SET CURDRIVE=S
IF ERRORLEVEL 20 SET CURDRIVE=T
IF ERRORLEVEL 21 SET CURDRIVE=U
IF ERRORLEVEL 22 SET CURDRIVE=V
IF ERRORLEVEL 23 SET CURDRIVE=W
IF ERRORLEVEL 24 SET CURDRIVE=X
IF ERRORLEVEL 25 SET CURDRIVE=Y
IF ERRORLEVEL 26 SET CURDRIVE=Z
IF "%CURDRIVE%"=="" ECHO Error checking current drive
IF NOT "%CURDRIVE%"=="" ECHO Current drive is %CURDRIVE%:

subst %NEWDRIVE%: /d
subst %NEWDRIVE%: %CURDRIVE%:\


Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

That’s pretty cool Steve. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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