All about Default.sfvidcap, need expert ...

Gkc wrote on 3/16/2009, 2:01 PM
Hello,

I have Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 on WIndowsXP PC. It seemed to have inserted the file "Default.sfvidcap" in the "My Documents" folder, like this...
C:\My Documents\Default.sfvidcap (1KB. 5/20/2008)

I really don't use Vegas much, might in future, had a few questions, would greatly appreciate insights...

1) What is in this file? That is, what kinds of default settings (settings for what) are in it?

2) Can I delete it? (I really like to clean up PC from time to time).

3) Can I tell Vegas Movie Studio (assuming that's what put it there), to put it somewhere else like under "My Videos"? What if I move it to a new folder like "My Videos"...will Vegas know to look there next time it's searching for this file?

4) What "caused" it generate this file? Is it everytime I launch Vegas? Everytime I save a project? If I do delete the "Default.sfvidcap" file, will it just put it back? What causes it to put it back?

Thanks,
George

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Chienworks wrote on 3/16/2009, 4:16 PM
The file comes from the VidCap program that captures SD digital video. If you don't give it any other name, it ends up with Default.sfvidcap in My Documents. You can save it as anything else anywhere else. However, if you do so, the next time you run VidCap it will create it again unless you immediately save it elsewhere.

What the file contains is a list of all the tapes and scenes captured. This enables recapturing in case you need to replace any of the captured files. It's quite safe to delete it as long as you don't think you'll have to recapture. However, the next time you run VidCap ... there it will be again.

It would be nice if VidCap had a setting for "look, i ain't ever gonna save the .sfvidcap file, so don't save it, and don't bother asking." But it doesn't, so there you are. Generally it's pretty tiny so it's not going to waste much disk space. If you never do anything with it such as renaming it or moving it, then VidCap will always use that same file and overwrite it each time. That's probably the best way to manage it. You'll quickly learn to ignore it completely.

On the other hand, if you do think that recapturing will become a necessity for you then by all means start saving that file. Personally i create a new directory for each new video project and save everything related to that project in that directory. Give the .sfvidcap file a meaningful name related to your project and save it in that directory too.