Certain clip closes Vegas. . .

autopilot wrote on 11/8/2007, 2:57 PM

A friend & I are working on Part 2 of a movie, the first one was burnt to DVD and then the hard drive failed. We then copied the Video TS from Part 1, then to do a flashback scene from Part 1 into Part 2, we opened another session to see Part 1, took out a clip, inserted it into Part 2, but error messages came up and Windows says Vegas has to shut down. Now my friend says she can't open up Part 2's timeline. Windows shuts it down.

Apparently it's got something to do with the clip from Part 1.

Any ideas on this?

Comments

TGS wrote on 11/8/2007, 4:58 PM

You can't simply use the VIDEO TS and open it up in Vegas. You should do a search here. I haven't tried it yet, but I believe you have to rename the extension of each VOB or possibly the whole title and extension of each VOB. But others have asked about this many times before and a search should give you answers you need.
Just what exactly are you trying to import into the Vegas timeline? (type of video)
Mpeg is extremely difficult to edit, so lots of things can go wrong.
The better you describe what you've done, the easier it is for others to answer.

UKAndrewC wrote on 11/8/2007, 4:59 PM

You can see if the autosaved version is a valid one.

This is a common problem and to cope you should alwayskeep regular backups or incremental versions.

I laways keep the current version and every few hours I save a 'project name 1.veg'.

This means when you encounter this problem you only have to redo you most recent edits.

Andrew

autopilot wrote on 11/8/2007, 8:10 PM

Andrew, I agree with the extra savings. My friend was working on the project while I was at my house, and she called me up to say she couldn't open up the timeline, yadda yadda. She's not going to touch it until I get a chance to look at it, and the first thing that popped into my mind was the autosave. I'll check it out.

What's the best way to use "old" DVD footage? Cut it out & render it as an AVI?

UlfLaursen wrote on 11/8/2007, 11:30 PM

I nromaly use the "import Camcorder disc" feature and cut from the "raw" mpeg files, but it's is not quite as smooth to do that as if it was DV AVI. I edit 1 hr. every week from a DVD camcorder, and I never render out to AVI first, but again I do not do a lot of editing with it just a few cuts and cutaways.

/Ulf