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Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Issue
Hi All
I have a Sony HDR-TG3E AVCHD Handycam. I have installed Sony PMB and Vegas Movie Studio Platinum on the C drive of my laptop.
When I plug in the Handycam into the laptop via USB Sony PMB launches and the images are imported onto the C drive. I then use the clips to make movies through Vegas by dragging them into the project media tab and then editing them before burning disks through DVD Architect 4.5. Finished movies are also saved to a standalone hard drive (D) as Vegas files and also as DVD Architect files. All works really well.
My C drive is now getting full with all the clips in PMB. Problem is that when I delete the clips in PMB it is also making them go “offline” in Vegas so when I try to launch a Vegas file containing clips that I have deleted from PMB Vegas says that it can’t find the images.
Silly question I’m sure but how can I save the Vegas files on the standalone hard drive in such a way that they are not connected to PMB so I can delete the PMB images in time? -
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Ideally you would leave your C drive just for programs and system files and have a second drive for all your Media. I’d just change up your workflow to have PMB save the files to the D drive.
Going even one step better would be to have a 3rd drive to render to. This would eliminate the possible bottleneck of using the same drive to read and write to at the same time. Drives are dirt cheap now use a bunch to make life easy.
Vegas Pro has a feature to “copy media with project” This is what is used when you are archiving a project and want all the media in a nice self contained package and you can then delete all the original data to make more room on the disk. Not sure if this is available on the Studio version of Vegas.
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Hi
I have just tried the copy media feature in Vegas and it seems to have worked a treat as I have managed to delete a clip in PMB without it deleting the same clip in Vegas. Fantastic !
Once I’ve sorted out all the media clips in PMB how can I instruct the programme to save my imported media to the stand alone drive rather than to the C drive? If I can manage to get the programme to do this then it would be really helpful. However if not the copy media feature looks great and allows me to package and save the Vegas project and it’s associated media safely on the stand alone drive. Thanks so much for your input on this.
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