[Ron Whitaker]

So, at this point what are some solutions?

I have a file I was working on with 500+ subclips. Then suddenly I couldn’t open it anymore. It gets stuck at around 80%.

[Ron Whitaker]

No. My source files are on my hard drive. It was working great for a while, until one day when I saved my project as another name to keep as a backup. I then clicked CTRL+F4 to close the project. That’s when the problems began.

[Ron Whitaker]

At first it was 200, then I increased it to 3000. Is that too much?

I just tried to add a tag to a subclip and Vegas just froze.

[Ron Whitaker]

I did a clean re-install and the same thing is happening.

[Ron Whitaker]

Now that I reinstalled it says 200. I’ll have to increase that, though I don’t see what it has to do with applying a tag to a subclip.

[Ron Whitaker]

It’s doing it again!

I’ve been working on creating subclips and every once in a while save out the file with a _A, _B, _C, etc extension as I progress.

Suddenly, the “white screen” appeared, so I had to end the process, and now I can’t open ANY of the iterations I’ve saved throughout the day. It just hangs at anywhere from 79% – 88%.

And if I mouse over the Vegas icon in my tray, the thumbnail pops up, with a “not responding” appearing above that.

I’m working on Vegas 13.

What’s the problem here?

I’m beginning to wonder if Vegas is just a toy that’s fine for editing the trip-to-Disneyland home movies, but for professional projects, not!

[Ron Whitaker]

Well, I took one of my .bak files, renamed it, then tried to open it. It froze at around 80%, but then eventually opened it.

I will save frequently as I edit throughout the day.

I’m just nervous now with Vegas. I’m only part way through the 35 hours of footage I need to go through. I have a little over 500 subclips, and by the end of ALL the footage, I expect to have around 3000+ subclips. I DON’T want any corrupted files at this point or down the road.

Why would a file get to around 80%, then simply stop loading? Is that a sign of a corrupted file, or is it something else?

[Ron Whitaker]

I have been doing that and it’s corrupting ALL variations.

A little bit ago I was able to find a .bak file, rename it, and it opened, but when I saved it out with today’s date, then exited out of Vegas and tried to open it, the file wouldn’t open but would sit there at around 80%.

I’m trying to open a file now with today’s date and it’s stuck at 80%.

If this is Vegas’ modus operandi, I’ve got to find another solution. This isn’t an acceptable product and simply isn’t going to work for me.

Anyone ever try Grass Valley’s Edius?

[Ron Whitaker]

Fortunately, I had been saving the file as documentary.veg, as well as documentary_backup.veg. I first renamed the documentary.veg.bak and tried to open it, but that didn’t work. Thankfully, the documentary_backup.veg.bak worked when I renamed it.

So, for now on, each day that I work on the file, I’ll be naming it documentary_.veg and documentary_backup_.veg to be safe.

This is scary! Right now I’m just going through 35 hours of footage and had created over 500 subclips so far, with a lot more to go!

Before this happened, all I did was save the file, then saved the file as documentary_backup.veg, then I pressed the CTRL+F4 to close the project so that I could open up the original documentary_backup.veg file so that next time I opened Vegas, that would be the project that opened. It was at that point that the original documentary.veg file went bad and could not longer be opened.

Is it not a good idea to close a project with CTRL+F4?

[Ron Whitaker]

OK. Thank you.