Can .sfk files restore the path?

Randini wrote on 11/27/2007, 1:50 PM

I had a client come over and sing and then edit them. The next time he came over all the work was gone in the timeline of Vegas but all the .wave and .sfk files exist in the main folder. Is there a way to restore the edits?

Thank you,
Randy

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/27/2007, 1:59 PM

See if you have a backup project file (.veg.bak) in your folder and just rename it something.veg. That might give you a working copy.

~jr

Randini wrote on 11/27/2007, 2:24 PM

I have already tried that but unfortunately did some edits and it goes back just to those. It seems to me that the .sfk files have info for the edits of the wave files in Vegas. Hmm?

Thank you,
Randy

farss wrote on 11/27/2007, 2:44 PM

The sdk files only contain the waveforms I think.

Are you actually saving the project??

And where are you saving it??

Bob.

Chienworks wrote on 11/27/2007, 3:09 PM

.sdk ? The waveform files are .sfk

.sdk is usually Software Development Kit.

I either case, there shouldn't be any edit information contained in them.

Randini wrote on 11/27/2007, 11:12 PM

I save all my files however something unexplainable happened with this one. I right clicked a .sdk file and told XP to open it with Vegas. Now all my .sdk files have a vegas icon anyone know how to make this go back to no icon?

Cheers,
Randini

busterkeaton wrote on 11/27/2007, 11:43 PM

Under Tools>Folder Options> File Types in XP explorer will let you detemine what program opens what file type.

However, that should not have affected your saved project.

farss wrote on 11/28/2007, 12:14 AM

"Now all my .sdk files have a vegas icon anyone know how to make this go back to no icon?"

When you make an audio recording with Vegas it asks you where you want to save the recording. That'll be the same place as where the sfk files are. Whatever icon XP assigned to the file type doesn't matter.

Now here's the thing. After you do your recording you can edit what you've captured. That does nothing to the recorded file (.wav) or the .sfk waveform file!! Vegas is a non destructive editor. The changes you've made doing the edit are stored in the Vegas project file. It has a .veg extension. This is the file you need to find and it's most likely not in the same folder as the .wav or .sfk file. If something has happened to the .veg file there should also be a ".veg.bak" file. You can rename that to something ending in .veg and open that with Vegas.

Hope this helps.

Bob.

Randini wrote on 11/28/2007, 5:34 PM

Thank you everyone for your help. I actually got the .sfk files back to no icon. That helps because it was irritating seeing too many vegas icons.

Bob, thank you and you are right about the .bak unfortunately I did too much work in the project after I lost the info and now that file is at that point.

Thank you everyone,
Randini