Vegas 10 doing what it wants (not what I want!)

[Phil Seymour]

Scarey stuff, but I am thinking along the lines of Stephen, having experienced a cross reference of files in another Windows program (Word). It happened on a drive I do a lot of work on, and I think it powered down and up once following a power glitch, so there was a chance of cross-linked files. I reformatted the disk and checked for errors, installed a UPS and have had no problems since. All that to say have you had any odd issues with the drive the project file is stored on?

[Lex Gernale]

yes, get another drive and put all your media files you use on that drive and observe if it will happen again.

Lex

[Stephen Mann]

Kelley – run CHKDSK on the hard drive. Does it report any cross-linked clusters?

If yes, then IMMEDIATELY replace the drive. Disk drives are too cheap to waste time repairing one that is showing possible problems. Next, reformat the old drive and use it for temp or not-critical storage.

Let us know what you found.

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

[Kelly Griffin]

UG…

It’s an eight-month-old system with a 10TB drive…

–Kelly

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey fellas–

I fixed the problem… all my main interview footage was MXF files from my P2 card. I took the AVI file + audio that Vegas had swapped for an MXF file and rendered a new sub-clip AVI. Then, I copied the music WAV from my “keepers” folder into my project folder, and used the one now sitting in the actual project folder.

Replaced the culprits with the new stuff, saved, crossed my fingers and re-opened and Bob’s your uncle.

Could it be that Vegas just had/has some trouble with MXF files sometimes?

Thanks for all your advice through this. All’s well that ends well…

–Kelly

[Mike Kujbida]

[Kelly Griffin] “Replaced the culprits with the new stuff, saved, crossed my fingers and re-opened and Bob’s your uncle.”

Make sure that you gave it a new version name (I’m a big fan of this technique!!) so that you can go back to it if you need to.

Keeping your fingers crossed is always a good idea, it just makes it harder to edit 🙂

“Could it be that Vegas just had/has some trouble with MXF files sometimes?”

As I think I’ve said before, this problem has come up on other Vegas forums (primarily the Sony one) and there is no known file type commonality amongst the users who have had this problem.
Sony is aware of it but has not been able to consistently repeat it, therefore no cure has been found or offered 🙁

[Ferry Lesmana]

I experienced the same thing and i try to read your solution but i dont understand it. could u make it a bit clearer please? i really nee ur help. thanks.

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Ferry, I just mean that I have a “keeper” folder on my drive with common elements I use from month to month that never change. For new projects I make a new folder, and within those I make a VEG that has some stuff from the “new” folder and some stuff from the “keeper” folder.

I guess Vegas didn’t like looking in both places and got confused somehow, but I don’t know why it would matter.

Also, I hit the lighting bolt thing and got rid of anything the project wasn’t actually using. That probably didn’t hurt, either.

–Kelly