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Puzzling Vegas Behavior
I am an intermediate Vegas Pro user. This only meaning that I can basically find my way around Vegas.
There is something though, that is troubling and irritating me pretty bad.
This is the scenario: I create a file from a number of M2T short clips, some audio files, etc., nothing too complicated. I do keep all files on an external hard drive just for vegas. Let’s say that I SAVE AS and close the file away for the night… Next morning, when I try to open the file, it opens but starts rendering at the same time. If I stop it, I can see the video but the audio won’t work… Needless to say that once it does that, I am not able to move the short clips around anymore because it has converted everything to its own track (video and audio). What am I doing wrong and what should I do to avoid getting to that stage? Yes, I would like to be able to have as many active video tracks as I want and to render ONLY when I tell the program to render. Please help me solve this situation. It ain’t the end of western civilization as we know it, but it is definitely getting on my nerves… Thanks.Haroldo
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6 Replies
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If you open a .veg file and it starts rendering something (the timeline??) on its own, there is something wrong. I would reinstall Vegas.
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My bet is that it’s not “rendering”. Instead, it’s probably building the peak file so it can display the audio waveform.
Edward Troxel
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Well, the message displayed on a small window says: rendering file XXXXXX, etc.
If it were just building the audio peaks, you could still see the video events in their different tracks. In this case everything gets converted to a single video file. If you cancel, then it just won’t do anything. I wonder if there could be something on PROPERTIES which is check/uncheck causing this to happen. -
Were you nesting a VEG file? In that case it builds the SFAP# file which does something different. Sounds like you may have simply dragged a VEG file to the timeline which NESTS it instead of OPENING it.
Edward Troxel
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Edward: You are right… may be this is what has been happening… It just did it again this morning with a larger unfinished file I had been working on… Now that you mention it, it is quite possible that I have been dragging the .VEG files into a timeline instead of just double clicking or using FILE + Open.. Grrrrrrrrrrrr I will try creating a sample of that to find out for sure. Well, this is why we ask, right? I will post later about my finding. Thanks.
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Ok… what a learning experience!!… I sheepishly admit that I was dragging (nesting) the .VEG file onto the timeline. This I get from also doing little projects in FCE. Thanks to those who responded to my obvious lack of knowledge. The Good news is that those other beginners out there who get to read this thread won’t have to go through the same. Thanks.
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