What is going on? Format of Media Conflicts??

[Steve Rhoden]

Thats a tough one…lol
Have you uninstalled any plugins or script from Vegas?
If you didnt, do a Vegas reinstall (i know its bothersome) and
let me know.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[Chas Smith]

At the risk of sounding dumb, if I go ahead and re-install Vegas… will my projects, files, etc. remain intact when I re-launch it?
Or will everything disappear? (I’ve been up too long working on this so my logic-circuits are overloaded.)

[Kevin Caulfield]

All your project files, etc will be fine when you re-install Vegas.

I have done this many times.

[Tyson Onaga]

Do you have multiple vegas projects that are exhibiting this problem? Regardless, first I’d check the HD(s) for disk errors before doing anything else. Then for EACH problem .veg:

1. Open
2. Keep selecting “Ignore error, leave offline” until the file is opened. Make a note of each file (media) for which Vegas is complaining.
3. Alt-6 (Edit Details)
4. Select Events from the droplist
5. Select the topmost, leftmost cell (should do Select All)
6. Ctrl-C
7. Open Excel, Paste
8. Col J should be File Path.
9. Mark the Files that you “Ignored” from Step 2.
10. Close (do NOT save) the .veg project.

Repeat for each .veg and append your results in a single Excel worksheet for your reference.

I’d look at each “File Path” that caused Vegas to err.
Compare Media Info against (eg) what Vegas thought the file was (or should have been).

BTW … if you have a backup (.veg.bak), have you tried copy, rename, and open it?

[Chas Smith]

Thanks to all for the info… so far here’s what I’ve done:

I uninstalled Vegas using CCleaner Utility and re-installed with the updated version build 10e 738. After launching Vegas, I was able to get my Capture Software to capture from Camcorder, did an import to timeline and playback was fine. I was even able to import a previously captured videofile and it too played back ok.

I saved and closed out and launched one of the “problem projects”… it wouldn’t load, had a window about corrupted file / media or something to that effect. Closed the window and project went to Untitled. CLosed it and tried opening other project…. at first a previous project (that I really need to open) started loading fine… almost practically at 100% but then the “media file conflict” window opened with the 3 choices. I clicked “ignore” and the who project closed.
Went back to the “New Project” that I created after the reinstall… and it too had the “Media File Conflict” message. Weird. Closed it and created a new project as a test. It seems to work as before….just wondering what happens after I close and relaunch…?

I’m pretty fried right now and while I need to get this fixed.. I’ve been up pretty long and I need to catch a few Zzzz. Try some of the more elaborate stuff in the AM.

Not sure but HD may be acting up…that could be the issue but it mounts now. It has been showing some mounting issue (Fail) after the media conflict msgs started showing up. My HD guy is out of town until Monday and not many I’d trust to handle this in my burg. May wind up taking a bullet from the client for being late. I do have a friend with a workstation to use in the AM but it means trying to cram a couple weeks of editing in just a couple days….
I really am disappointed if this is the case.

more to come.

[Chas Smith]

P.S. I know I should know this but can’t recall right now… where would I find the .veg.bak files?

P.P.S Actually I looked and the location where they project files were didn’t show any veg.bak files on some…did on others.

[Steve Rhoden]

Im here wondering if its something else on your system
or with your hard drive causing this issue. Anything else
behaving oddly?

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[Chas Smith]

Thought I’d follow-up on this. Didn’t really have the time to update until now. The workstation is working fine now. I tried a lot of things to solve the problem. But since I was pushing a hard deadline, my “plan B” was to dust off the old workstation loaded with SVP 6 and import whatever I could manage to copy from the HD on the malfunction SVP 10 workstation. I got about 30% “salvaged” but wound up starting from scratch on everything else. Edited pretty much around the clock to get this all done ASAP.

Happy to report that I got everything delivered, just 2 days late but it turned out the timing was okay. (whew). I got paid and I think I’m okay with the client, so far they keep sending work my way so that’s a good sign.

Now..back to the problem. I uninstalled, re-installed, system restored, uninstalled possible conflicting software ( can’t offer a reason only that it was installed recently ) took off side panel & checked SATA cables, etc. FWIW everything is working!! I even can playback the media that was having “conflicts” but no conflict messages anywhere. I can’t tell you what it was that was causing the issue. My RAID flash screen shows the HD is working …no failures.
Nothing.

Soooo… I’m just going to keep working until something pops up. In the meantime however, I’m beefing up the ram in the old WS and will back-up project files more frequently than normal, just in case.

Thanks to all for suggestions on how to fix this glitch.