Have you ever had VEG files get corrupted?

clearvu wrote on 8/31/2004, 4:13 AM
Although it does not happen often, I've found the culprit of burn problems to be corrupted VEG files.

For example, the latest problem was that the rendered video file would lock up about 5 minutes into it. No matter what I did within Vegas the render would not work properly. At first I thought is was a bad burn but then noticed the created MPEG file would lock up within Windows Media Player too. In this case, I found that the Supersampling I was using within the project was causing the corruption. I deleted all the Supersampling, resaved the VEG and re-applied the Supersampling again and everything worked.

Of course, when these things happen, it's very frustrating and difficult to find what added feature is causing the problem. I've had a similar issue one time with the "Iris Transition". Once I deleted it and started over I got the rendered file to work properly.

Has anybody else ever experienced such a strange issue? Perhaps someone has figured a way of avoiding such things.

Some feedback would be appreciated.


Brian

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/31/2004, 8:13 AM
I think any file type can be corrupted. What's responsible for it, I don't know. Happens with Word, Pagemaker, Indesign, Photoshop, Nero, just about every tool I've used has gotten corrupted files at one time or another. Usually, just saving to another file name works.
Yes, I've had a couple corrupted veg files over the years and thousands of vegs I've created. I don't know why....Maybe someone with more smarts can answer this better than I. It might be related to disk fragmentation, might be related to another process in the background while something is saving, might be related to a file corrupted that is being saved within the veg, lots of reasons, just don't know which one, if any, is the right one.