[Chas Smith]

Anyone have any luck with Video Repair Tools type of software? I recovered my files but they won’t playback and I get codec not supported errors even though I’ve done everything I could to make sure I’ve got the right codecs. It seems the Kodak Zi8 files are QT and everytime I’ve used it in the past, it seems to cause issues on my PC.

Someone had said I needed to get an older version of QT player… seems make sense but what a PITA to be going back & forth on this.

Anyways… any useful suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chas

[Chas Smith]

To add a P.S. to my Original Post: I seem to recall that the word on the Pro Titler was to be more versatile to use than the regular Sony Titler which I still use and find it okay in a pinch for simple CG’s. The thing with the standard titler is a lack of viewable workspace in the titler window. Can’t understand this limitation with Sony Vegas Pro being as mature as it is now with versions up to 12. Someone asked me about SVP the other day and I tell them it’s a good tool but has some awkward limitations at times.

[Chas Smith]

P.S. Considering the playback limitations, is there a plug-in like the Cineform HD Connect or something similar that is still avaialbe for the SVP 6 to improve the playback without affecting
the video file quality?

SVP works but unless I do dynamic RAM preview, it’s tough to watch the playback with any accuracy.

[Chas Smith]

Again, Thanks for the quick response! 🙂

That did the trick and capturing HDV.
Thanks again!

[Chas Smith]

Hi John, thanks for your response.

When I select “Capture” from SVP 6, the “capture SW” I’m referring to is actually the device control / capture window of SVP 6. When I have my XHA1 set up to output DV (non-HDV output/downconvert), I can capture fine, the preview window shows the video being captured.

But if my XHA1 is set to playback HDV, when I select “Capture”, I get a window with the following: “Microsoft subunit device could not be opened …..” etc.

I’ve checked the “Video” tab in the Capture Mode and don’t see any setting other than the “Microsoft Subunit Device”.

So there’s no dialogue box asking me if I want to capture in DV or HDV. I’ve checked my properties settings in the project and it’s set to HDV 1440X1080i.

What am I doing wrong here? I’ve read that SVP 6 can handle the capture of HDV but there’s other posts mentioning Cineform Capture plug-in (for a fee).

Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Chaz

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.)

[Chas Smith]

Thanks for the tips guys, did the Dropbox and it works great.
I think I may just pass on renewing my YouSendIt Pro considering
the problems I’ve been having.

Chas