[Ron Whitaker]

Unfortunately, I need to keep the audio on while scrubbing through the Trimmer window.

It’s strange. If I make a selection within the Trimmer window, then click on the Subclip button at the bottom, the Subclip window appears with no sound.

But, after creating the keyboard shortcut for Subclip, and when I make a selection, then enter my keyboard shortcut, the subclip window appears, but then there’s the annoying beep.

Any ideas why that would be happening?

[Ron Whitaker]

I guess I didn’t make myself clear.

I’d like something like FCP or Avid where you’re actually viewing the thumbnail play. Not in Trimmer. Not in Video Preview. ONLY the thumbnail is playing.

Anything like that in Vegas?

[Ron Whitaker]

Thanks for your help, John.

I opened a ticket with Sony last week regarding this. I heard back from a support rep, uploaded my system info as well as some of the .veg files.

I hope they are able to help!

[Ron Whitaker]

Here’s what I did:

I opened a new instance of Vegas.

I selected File > Import > Media.

I selected all the media (video) files that I had been referencing while creating the subclips.

They came in fine.

I then saved the project out, then re-opened it.

It opened fine with no problems.

[Ron Whitaker]

John:

Here’s what I did:

1. I opened a new instance of Vegas
2. I did a File > Import > Media From Project.
3. Selected the .veg file
4. Clicked the Import Bins checkbox

Vegas imported all the bins from the .veg file I selected.

5. I saved the file as a new name.
6. I then opened the file

It hung at 81% and never budged.

[Ron Whitaker]

This may be a dumb question, but explain “add half of your media to the project.”

Right now I haven’t added any media to the project, as far as I know. All I’ve done is open a media file within the Trimmer window, then create subclips. Then I open another media file within the Trimmer, create subclips, etc.

Is that considered “adding media” to a project?

Maybe what I can do is have two instances of Vegas open, one with an old project open (if I can open one), then the other instance with a new, blank project. Then I can start dragging over subclips from the media bins one or two at a time.

Is that what you mean?

[Ron Whitaker]

I’ll give that a try.

I wish there was a way to export to a file ONLY the subclip information for a project. That way if a file became corrupt, I could simply create a new project file, then import the subclip data.

Thing is, I don’t have anything on the timeline as yet. I’ve ONLY been going through the media files in the Trimmer window and creating subclips. That’s it.

[Ron Whitaker]

OK. I tried your suggestions. I moved a bunch of media files to another folder, opened Vegas, then clicked to open the latest .veg file for this project. Is that what I should be doing, or should I be starting a completely new project?

The good news is that the green slider at the bottom left goes all the way to 100%. The bad news is that it just sits there at 100%. If I mouse over the Vegas icon in the try, the pop-up indicates that it’s in “not responding” mode.

Also, to make sure I did this correctly, when I first moved a bunch of the files to a different folder, then opened Vegas, the text box appeared that it couldn’t find some of the files. So, I simply suggested that it ignore the files it can’t find and keep them offline. Is that correct?

[Ron Whitaker]

That’s what I thought. Subclips are useful, at least I thought they were supposed to be.

I’m at my wits end, though. I don’t know what to do. I’ve created several hundred in a project, and I can’t open any of the iterations of the project files I’ve created. It just hangs at around 80%.

[Ron Whitaker]

Bob:

Perhaps that’s the way forward for me! I actually liked the subclip method.

Can you expand on why subclips is based on older technology? Do editors just not use them much anymore?