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Sony Vegas 8.0c versus home network
Ok, need a little help from some wise people.
I have a three computer network in my office. In order of horse-power, its a new HP running Windows 7, a newer Gateway running XP and an older Gateway running XP. The first two are the only ones I use for editing.
I’d like to be able to ‘host’ a folder on the HP and share it with the other computers. I am successful in that, except for my Sony Vegas 8.0 .veg files. I can open ANYTHING from said folder across any part of the network. But when I look for a .veg file from one of the two Gateways, its no where to be found. I go back to the HP (computer of origin for the files as well as where it is physically stored), and the .veg file icon has a little lock on it. I can go in and re-do the file permissions and it wipes out the lock and I can find it across the network again. I can open and edit and save it from the newer gateway, then when I save it from the HP, it ‘locks’ the file again. I can always access it from the HP, but saving it from the HP blocks the other computers from it.
Any thoughts?
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6 Replies
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Only the .veg file?? Who owns the file? If you are running Vegas as a non-admin user then saving the project as that user makes the files only accessible by that user.
Look in C:/users/’username’/My Documents for your veg file and share that.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Hi, Stephen.
Thanks for the advice. I MAY have it fixed now. I checked how I was running the program, and apparently I was running it as a user, not administrator. I also checked the sharing/privileges of each user account and so forth. I changed a few things to allow everyone to read/modify, etc… We’ll see if this fixes everything.
Thanks for your time!
Any other general pieces of advice for trying to set it up for both my wife and I to edit projects across the network? Store it all on one computer and use it as the ‘server’ for both computers (backups not withstanding).
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Ross – If you use one of the PC’s as a file server for the net, you will compromise its performance. We use an NAS box here, a NexStar NAS Adapter ($50 at NewEgg). You just plug one end into an external USB disk, and the other into your router.
I have mine mapped to Drive “Z” on all my computers, so you can both work on the same project without Vegas always asking where is the media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Thanks, Steve.
We’ve got a WD My Book Live 3TB Network Attached Storage drive.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136880Not sure if I need to upgrade my network switcher or some other components, but it doesn’t seem to pack the punch needed to feed two computers at once. Are you running all Cat 6e? I’ve got a mix of Cat 6e and Cat 5e.
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I am running CAT5 here, but to your point about the NAS being slow, using a PC as a server would be slower. I don’t edit from the server, but I could. I just use it to exchange projects between PC’s.
If you aren’t working on the same project at the same time, just use an external USB drive and a batch file I wrote that makes it look like drive B, so the veg files are interchangeable.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Ok. I understand (mostly) what you are getting at.
What I’m aiming more at is, I want to be able to sit down at either comp at any time and edit any current project. AND/OR I want my wife and I to be able to sit at both computers and edit anything we’d like. We film a lot of band/graduation/school play events with multiple titles in the final product, therefore multiple veg files for the totality of the project. I’d like to be able to pull up one marching show from said event on my comp while my wife pulls up another marching show from the same event (and same folder) on her comp and not get files lost out there. I’ve already dealt with copying the ‘backup’ folder over the ‘working’ folder once and lost two solid days of editing for both of us. That was an awful feeling, and I’d like to avoid that possibility again.
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