Sony Vegas Pro 13 Question

[John Rofrano]

[Graham Bernard] “I offered MediaInfo ‘cos GSpot was coming back with telling me that my XF MXF CODEC isn’t installed – when it obviously is.”

And I offered GSpot because Robert has an AVI file and GSpot works great with AVI files. I wouldn’t expect it to work with MXF; it’s primarily an AVI tool. 😉

~jr

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[Graham Bernard]

[John Rofrano] ” I wouldn’t expect it to work with MXF; it’s primarily an AVI tool. ;-)”

Ah righto! Thanks John – I was wrong to think it WOULD read MXF files. Has G-Spot stopped being developed? If so . . pity . . . I really like the GUI.

Cheers

Graham

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[John Rofrano]

[Graham Bernard] “Has G-Spot stopped being developed?”

Yes, but AVI is also a very old format. It’s a case of the right tool for the right job.

~jr

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[Robert Engle]

Sorry guys was very sick and just getting my head back on. Yes my AVIs work now thank you. I really like the program but ran into a small issue. Made a half hour mini movie with pictures spaced out in between movie clips. I have a picture I want to delete and did but ended up hitting the undue button because it messed up all my Automatic Crossfades. I had them at 5 seconds and it made them less and really messed other things up. So how do I simply delete a small picture and then move everything from the right side of my timeline to join to the left side without screwing things up? Thanks Graham and everyone else. Hope all of you had a great holiday.
Bob

[John Rofrano]

[Robert Engle] “So how do I simply delete a small picture and then move everything from the right side of my timeline to join to the left side without screwing things up?”

Turn on Auto Ripple (Ctrl + L), delete the picture, then turn Auto Ripple off again. That should ripple everything on the right of the picture to the left and close the gap without ruining any of the transition timing.

~jr

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[Robert Engle]

Ok now im in real trouble. I went to try to Ripple and when I went to open my project file it gave me a pop up window that said stuff about picture files that could not be found.There were several choices to choose.

1. Search for missing file
2. Specify a new location or replacement file
3. Ignore missing file and leave it offline
4. Ignore all missing files and leave offline

I searched and nothing happened and then chose to leave all files offline and then my project opened and where the pictures were it says Media offline. I can see the spot where it was and my transitions but no pictures? Did I mess something up when I saved it again? OMG I am in a complete panic I spent 3 days on this project and countless time. It was my first project. I had opened and closed it many times but then added new pictures. Pictures were from a camera and a few from an IPhone but all were on my computer and I watched them playback 10 times. What can I do to get these ONLINE. I CANT DO THIS PROJECT ALL OVER AGAIN !!!!!!!
HELP HEP HEP HELP

Also I tried the drop down menu that says to take media offline and it wont work????

[John Rofrano]

There should be a file in your project folder with an extension of .veg.bak . This is the last backup of your project. Try copying this to something.veg and see if it will open without any problems.

One other thing to try is to go to the Project Media window and find the picture that is off-line and right-click and Replace it with the picture file on your hard drive.

~jr

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[Robert Engle]

Ok EXACTLY where is the folder that has the back up VEG file? I started deleting in the time line where it said the Media was not there and bringing in new pictures again but what a pain. Is it possible if you move the pictures after working on the project, i mean moving the location within your computer, and there in a different location could that cause an issue when Vegas is opened ? My other practice movies were fine and the pictures haven’t moved so do you think this caused the issue? THANKS John. R

[John Rofrano]

[Robert Engle] “Ok EXACTLY where is the folder that has the back up VEG file?”

In the same folder as the original veg file. It has the same name but with a .beg.bak extension.

[Robert Engle] ” Is it possible if you move the pictures after working on the project, i mean moving the location within your computer, and there in a different location could that cause an issue when Vegas is opened”

Absolutely! You cannot change the location of the pictures once you add them to the project. They are not IN the project! They are just referenced by the project to the place on the hard drive that they exist. If you change where they are, the project will not know where to find them. Perhaps this is your problem.

I find that it’s best to make a new folder for every project and copy the media into that folder so that the location never changes.

~jr

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[Robert Engle]

I see a few people downloading things from a place called Media Fire to get some cool intro stuff. I want to do a cool intro for a video and this site seems ok. Any bad thoughts from you guys are or there better sites to go to? The one I saw has a planet and stars with the name coming at you thought it was neat. What do you guys think?
Thanks