What is a trimmed copy of media

[Mike Kujbida]

It means that you get only the media that you used in the project as opposed to the entire clip.
For example, you import a 30 min. video but only use 5 min. of it.
The “trimmed” copy is the 5 min. that you used, not the original 30 min.

FYI, this can only be applied to specific formats.

Audio/video events are saved in a new AVI file.
You can trim DV AVI, uncompressed AVI, Sony YUV AVI, and CineForm AVI files.
Because of the lossy nature of other video formats, those video files will not be trimmed, but will simply be copied to the project folder.

Audio-only events will be rendered to the Wave format if under 2 GB (or Wave64 if over 2 GB), and DV files will be rendered as DV AVI files.

[Doyal Gudgel]

I created a new program on an external Seagate 1tb drive from material on that drive of 104 events from photos When it was rendered it crashed. I moved it to c drive and sony rendered it ok. I reduced the number of events (Pictures) to 90 to make sure I did’t miscount and moved it back to the external drive and it rendered ok. Unless I made a mistake I looks like Sony cant handle anything on an external drive over 100 events.

Western Digital is going to call but I will tell them their drive is not the cause of this instance. Today I was working on a Seagate 1tb drive so WD is not the problem. Both drives have crashed. Or the size is not the problem. If I had nothing to do I could use a smaller drive but at the moment I have other things to do. I don’t think a smaller drive would make any difference. I am amazed that I got this kind of response from Western Digital so in the future if possible my purchases will be western Digital drives. Thanks for your help. You really helped a lot.

[Doyal Gudgel]

I created a new program on an external Seagate 1tb drive from material on that drive of 104 events from photos When it was rendered it crashed. I moved it to c drive and sony rendered it ok. I reduced the number of events (Pictures) to 90 to make sure I did’t miscount and moved it back to the external drive and it rendered ok. Unless I made a mistake I looks like Sony cant handle anything on an external drive over 100 events.

Western Digital is going to call but I will tell them their drive is not the cause of this instance. Today I was working on a Seagate 1tb drive so WD is not the problem. Both drives have crashed. Or the size is not the problem. If I had nothing to do I could use a smaller drive but at the moment I have other things to do. I don’t think a smaller drive would make any difference. I am amazed that I got this kind of response from Western Digital so in the future if possible my purchases will be western Digital drives. Thanks for your help. You really helped a lot.

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[Mike Kujbida]

[doyal gudgel] “Unless I made a mistake I looks like Sony cant handle anything on an external drive over 100 events.”

Sorry to say this but you are wrong.
I’m on several Vegas forums and a lot of users routinely edit long complex videos using an external drive.
My suggestion to you is to wipe your system and start from scratch as something somewhere in your computer is seriously messing you up.

[Doyal Gudgel]

I imported another 50 photos from another HD into the program on C drive making about 145 photos. 90 were on c drive and about 50 on the external drive. It rendered ok. Your experience that it can handle almost any amount is ok. Now I will try it and see if it works. Leave stuff on external but have the program on C. I will use that idea and start from scratch again.

[Doyal Gudgel]

I have two computers and they both acted the same. When you say wipe do you mean format the install windows again? If so I’d rather buy another computer.

[Mike Kujbida]

[doyal gudgel] “When you say wipe do you mean format the install windows again?”

That’s exactly what I mean.

“I have two computers and they both acted the same.”

See if there’s anyone in your area who uses Vegas and get them to help you narrow down the problem as it’s almost impossible to troubleshoot something like this over the internet.

[Doyal Gudgel]

This entire situation is probably of my making. They usually are. I can contact my sons video editor who uses Vegas Pro but that will be the last resort as I have never done that. But first I will do one more thing I thought I had done which is clear everything out in a restart of Vegas. I did that but may have not cleared editing history. Yes this happened on two different computers but I just transferred the external hard drives to the second one which still used the same data files except what was on the other c drive. .

So I am in the process of starting everything new. Nothing from the problem I had. It worked before it should work now. Who said life was going to be easy. Thanks for the help.

[Mike Kujbida]

To do a complete reset of Vegas, hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys while starting it.
If you get a message that says something like “do you want to clear your cache?”, click Yes.

[Doyal Gudgel]

Yes, on my computer it asks to delete memory which does the same thing looks like. I am not running the new program from an external HD but I am using another HD for data. It rendered ok. Later I will run it from a HD.