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Vegas Just Trashed My Just Finished Project!!!!
This happened before from footage captured by Vegas’ capture engine. Now it has attacked my just completed wedding. We were watching the final DVD and noticed in 3 places the visual images were NOT what we had in the finished edit. It appears fine on our test DVD, but not on the final DVD. (I made a few small adjustments before the final).
Looking on the timeline, the video is NOT the video that was there originally. In this on clip in the timeline, named “RecB-020”, the actually video is from another clip not even used. Looking at the same clip in the Project Media bin, IT IS the correct video.
Somehow, these video clips are being swapped with another. And this happened in 3 placed that we can tell at this point. There may be more that I haven’t noticed. Unless I can recall every single clip in this wedding, who knows what else may have switched. How is that even possible for the software to strip out video from one clip and insert video from another?
Now when I’m trying to FIX these clips, Vegas keeps crashing. I even saved it out as a new project. Hope it’s not normal that Vegas can corrupt an entire project. This is sickening now.
This first fully-produced Vegas wedding just hit the fan and got shredded. There better be some kind of fix or solution?
Help!
Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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Have you had a crashes in Windows lately? Are the files on an external drive and you didn’t eject the drive correctly? It sounds like the files may be cross linked on your hard drive. You might want to run a check disk just to be sure. (right-click the drive in the windows explorer and select Properties and then on the Tools tab run Error-Checking on the drive)
If not, it could be a bug in Vegas. I would work directly with Sony Technical Support if your hard drives are OK. I don’t think you’re the only person who has reported this. I may very well be a bug.
~jr
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Ken
In addition to John’s suggestions, I would also try:
– opening the project on another PC with Vegas.
– Uninstalling and re-installing VegasYou did not mention which Vegas product and version you were using.
Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1
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This is happening in Vegas Pro 9.0e on WIN 7 64-bit. After fixing the video events that were switching and saving to a new project, upon opening that project they switched back to the wrong video events. Something somewhere is telling Vegas to make these changes, because it ain’t me.
Ken Bennett
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Had the same issue in 8.0c only difference was the media was a still picture, not moving images. I had to remove the tainted media from the project media list AND the HD and restore from my backup to resolve.
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Do you have Vegas Pro 10a? If not, maybe download the trial and see if it can fix the project.
~jr
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Not good.
Here is my approach to generating a long mpeg for DVD.
1] Check all your settings correspond to your media.
2] Check quantise is on and your timeline ruler reflects your media
3] Render whole project to the media you are using.
4] Open a new Vegas project and import the big render from 3] and render the mpeg from this.
This is how I go about delivering mpeg. Having a completed project file also allows me to interrogate it if there is an issue.
This is not good. Tracking down a bug under what sounds like your simplest of projects could be a real pain.
Grazie
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Hi.
Have you tried making a copy of the media file in it’s actual directory but giving it a new name, and then replacing the media file through Vegas in the media pool?
Might work.
Fred
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