Howdy Bob,
Thanks for the tip and yes, nested veggies is what I meant. We figured out that we would have to manually open and save the nested veg files after trying to edit the project on another machine and discovered the missing media. There's over a dozen nested .veg files so it will take some time. Lesson learned. Glad we discovered it now before it got out of the house. Doubt I'll be using nested .veg files much in the future. Will just render out the clip and use that.
Take care and thanks again.
Randy

I am pretty sure that several of the commercial scripts will take care of archiving all the media referenced by nested veg files.

I'd tend to flop that decision around. Use nested .veg files all you want. It's the "save media with file" option that i would avoid. I always put all media related to a project in it's own directory for that project. That way i never have a need to save the media with the .veg file because it's already there. If i want to transfer or back up the project, i just copy that directory and i'm done. So much nicer and simpler than the save media option, especially since it doesn't change/split/rename the media files.

Kelly,

Very good advice and will do that in the future. Just need to revise my work flow.

Thanks for everyones inputs.

Randy

> We figured out that we would have to manually open and save the nested veg files after trying to edit the project on another machine and discovered the missing media.

Hi Randy,

I believe you have Ultimate S3. Just go to the Project tab and use Archive Nested Projects. It will automatically load all your nested projects and archive the media and then redirect the master archive to use the new sub-archives. It even lets you place the nested archives in separate sub-folders so everything stays organized.

~jr

WOW! I didn't remember that. That's the ticket. Man, everytime I ask, I learn another feature about Ultimate S that I didn't know. Thanks very much JR! I can still use my nested veggies and archive my project without having to manually bring everything into the project folder...which really disrupts my workflow.
Thanks again all,
Randy

That's what I meant in my earlier post when I said that "commercial scripts" could do what you want. Didn't know you had Ultimate S.

As for putting all the media in one folder, there are quite a number of workflows where that doesn't work. A good example is where I want to do several similar projects, re-using the same media. I have 50 still photos and a bunch of clips, but only want to use a few of them in each project, but I don't know which ones until "I get there." Duplicating all 50 in each folder is a pain, and when it includes video, it consumes too much space. Also, I often have a project where I only use about 20% of what I shot, and for various reasons, don't want to archive the b-roll or excess. Being able to archive just what I use (plus some head/tail) is extremely useful.

Thanks John. When I read your post, I didn't think about US3 because I hadn't used that capability. Appreciate your advice. Yes, agree about the space issue and how much of a pain it is to stop and collect the media for nested .veg's. No worries now, US3 to the rescue.
Thanks again,
Randy