[Larry Brewer]

Steve,

Thanks for your advise. I’m pretty much resolved to losing some of my work. But should the long load times I experienced leading up to the error have tipped me off? 5-6 mins was the norm, and often the .veg file would not work so I used the .veg.bak file to start the project. I believe the issue may be BCC transition plugins that I utilized on the last version that failed. Assuming that’s the case, is there a workaround to get this to load and then discard these transitions?

Also, why do I not see the “DETAILS” button on my error window? Being able to view the DETAILS of the error would shed some light.

I guess what I’m saying is, what’s the point in picking up from the last good save if I don’t know what errors caused the issue? I could end up 2 days from now with another file that won’t open and I revert back to the point before the issue that caused the problem. And I still don’t know what caused the problem!

[Larry Brewer]

Here’s what I have learned. The autosave functions saves a project file every 5 mins unless you have disabled it in options preferences. If Vegas shuts down unexpectly, the last autosave will try to reopen the project the next time Vegas is started. But!!!! If Vegas is closed correctly, no crash, no lockup, etc.. the autosave file is automatically erased.

So a vegas user has 3 files to try when opening a project. The primary file- .veg, the backup file .veg.bak, and the autosave file created the last time Vegas crashed. My probelem is that Vegas actually closed correctly with no hint of a problem, hence the most recent autosave was erased.

Think of the Irony. If Vegas hadn’t crashed 2 days ago I probably would have lost all my work.

I tried your suggestions, thank you. No luck.

Can anyone explain why the error window I see when the project fails to load does not include the “DETAILS” button? All I am getting is the error message and a “OK” button. The error window always had a “DETAILS” in past and it might help me with this issue today.

[Larry Brewer]

Yes, that would absolutely work and give me all the options. I was looking for a short-cut that would take some of the work out of creating this effect. Vegas Pro type titler can do that, so that will be my first approach.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Larry Brewer]

…and it works like a charm!

[Larry Brewer]

Steve

An interesting fact in all of this is that when you use the Explorer window to view your thumbnails, instead of the Project Media window, you get thumbnails that once created, stay created! You can scroll top to bottom and no problem with having to rebuild. So whats the difference?

BTW, using the Explorer window is a problem and caused crashes while I was experimenting. Also, no way to see timecode ins and outs in the Explorer view.

[Larry Brewer]

So.. this is the way your Sony Vegas performs, and all the other Sony Vegas users have the same performance regarding thumbnail creation? Is that correct?

[Larry Brewer]

Completely understood and agreed. Just wanted to know if the P2 timecode issue was unique to my system or everyone was having the same issue.

[Larry Brewer]

I have not noticed that vegas re-sorts the clips making consecutive clips out of sequence. Have you tried sorting your clips in the project media window using he “modified” column? (sort by time and date) That works for me.

And yes! I just tried sorting by clip names and yes, you are right, the clips aren’t necessarily in sequence. It may have to do with the alphanumeric naming convention used.

[Larry Brewer]

could this be my 7.7.2 Quicktime update?

Read somewhere that 7.6.2 was the latest version that Vegas supported.

[Larry Brewer]

Thanks for that info John!

Next issue, and this is one I had thought I had worked out long ago when I first started captioning.

The issue has to do with apostrophes.

After captioning with CCA and during playback in WMPlayer, every use of an apostrophe is displayed as a question mark in the caption area beneath the WMPlayer screen. such as … We?ll, or I?m. or aren?t…

My script comes in in MS Word. I am aware of the “smart quotation” issue with word docs and addressed that before I even started. After the first attempt at captioning, I used the CCA text editor to export the entire caption list, I pasted it into NotePad and resaved it. I then copied it from notepad and pasted it back into CCA text editor. I then clicked the “PROCESS” button, but I’m not sure why, and all my timecodes went to 00:00:00:00. I re-did the caption marker placements and exported the captions for Windows Media..

Same problem, question marks where apostrophes are supposed to be.

What am I missing here?