Copy & Trim Problem

jimingo wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:07 AM
I have a video that's about 5 minutes long. It is mostly made up of DV clips. There is about 500MB of other files such as music and pics. I copied and trimed my project and I selected "trim source media" with no head or tail. It's copying WAY more than the trimmed media. So far my copy and trim folder is about 30 gigs and it's only 72 percent complete (It's still not done copy and trimming). This never happened before so does anybody have an ideda of what's going on. I'm definate that I chose "trim source media". Some of the dv clips are on another computer that I am networking with. Could this be the cause for my problem? Again, my video is about 5 minutes long so my copy and trim folder should be like 2 gigs or so plus my pics and music(rough estimate).

UPDATE: It's even copying more than it needs of the clips that are on my computer (the dv files that are NOT networked) so I think we can eliminate that networking has anything to do with it. Also I'm pretty sure it's coping the trimmed files + the source media. I don't want to copy the source media.

Thanks for the help
-Jim

Comments

jimingo wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:36 AM
I tried Copy and Trimming from the other computer that I am networked to and it's doing the same thing...copying the source and trimmed media.

-Jim
jetdv wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:48 AM
Some media it can't "trim" so it just copies the entire file. DV-AVI it can. Some formats, it can't.
jimingo wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:52 AM
The media is 95% DV-AVI files...the rest is just some music and pics. The DV files were shot with a Canon GL2 and captured with vidcap. It should have no problem trimming them.

-Jim
johnmeyer wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:55 AM
You must remove unused media from you media pool, or it will copy all that as well as the media that is on the timeline.
jimingo wrote on 2/3/2006, 9:58 AM
I did remove all extra media that is not on the timeline.

-Jim
Chienworks wrote on 2/3/2006, 5:06 PM
There was a bug in which any events that contained velocity envelopes resulted in the entire clip being copied without being trimmed. I don't know if the bug has been fixed or not, but if you have velocity envelopes that might be causing it. This bug is particularly pernicious if you have split a single clip up into multiple events with velocity envelopes as the entire clip is copied for each and every one of it's events on the timeline.

I don't know if there are any other reasons that a clip might be copied in it's entirety for each event, but if this is happening you could end up with a "trimmed" folder that is vastly larger than your original source files.
jimingo wrote on 2/3/2006, 6:06 PM
Thanks Chienworks,

That's probably the problem. I do have velocity envelopes on media that has been split. I have the latest version of vegas so I guess the bug hasn't been fixed.

-Jim
Chienworks wrote on 2/3/2006, 6:47 PM
What i've done in those cases is to render out a new copy of that clip including just the portion (or portions) needed for the event(s), then replace the original clip(s) with the new shorter version(s). It only takes a few seconds and it saves you many gigabytes of space when saving trimmed versions.