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This one’s a weird one!
I must say this has never happened before and I’m curious if anyone else has shared this experience.
I booted up my computer and loaded Vegas 9 with the last project loading automatically, and in one of my scenes on the timeline, some of the footage was swapped with another file. I checked the properties, the names etc and it all corresponded with the correct file on the correct drive but plays a different video file. The file name and actual video just didn’t match. There was also an external sound track which did the same. It is a concern as it was almost 2 hours work, and there was no way I could seem to fix it. I suppose I need to delete everything and start fresh. Any suggestions what could have caused this? Is this a Vegas bug? I’m using Vegas 9D and never seen that before!
Filmmaker http://www.sixlovers.com
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Ok, that is odd.
Do an audit of your System drive and establish how much you have available for programs to tharsh about in. I’ve found that I can get oddities happening if I’ve only left less than 15% on my system drive. Try this first.
The next thing to do is to use the Lightening Bolt in Project Media to clean out any unused media, Try renaming the project prior to cleaning up the project too.
Grazie
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I’m using an external raid5 system with 4 x 1 terrabyte and there’s only 800 gigs of footage. Plenty of space. I use the lightning bolt all the time to work efficiently. Drives are clean and just been formatted. Video plays well, no file issues, just vegas is confusing those two files. Just makes no sense. Even if I place them in the trimmer, video doesn’t match the file name. If I play it in the project manager then it’s fine. Aside from that it’s been working like a dream, no crashes. And yes they are 1080P files.
Filmmaker http://www.sixlovers.com
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And your system drive?
Grazie
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That’s 37.93% free. Should be enough.
Could it be one of the Raids failing? If you have an option move the media to an external FireWire or non-raid and see what happens.
But yes, this is not good.
Question, why are you staying with 9d? You don’t fancy 9e?
Grazie
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My mistake, I did upgrade to version 9e. Nothing seems to be failing drive wise, as the files play well and correctly just seemed to have hyperlinked to a different file. Very unusual and I’m only up to scene 9 out of 65 scenes, so it is a concern.
I’ll fix the issue and keep going to see if it happens again. I’m not too sure what else to do as apart from that it’s working fine. I’ve deleted the scene now and overwritten the file so I can’t test it on another drive. Not the first time and it won’t be the last that I lose hours of work on a computer!
Filmmaker http://www.sixlovers.com
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If it is about loosing work, Edward Troxel has an autosave script/extension that has saved my rear-end on numerous occasions.
Grazie
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