Help with corrupted file.

Erk wrote on 6/18/2003, 1:20 PM
I'm using V 4.0c. I have a project I started in V 3 which I hadn't opened in version 4 until recently. When I try to play the timeline in V4, it hangs and usually forces me to hard-reboot the PC. It apparently got corrupted somehow, but I'd like to avoid rebuilding it if I could identify if one event (or clip etc.) is the problem and surgically remove it. I have no other problems with Vegas (3 or 4) or any projects, many of which originated in V 3. Using WinXP. Details:

The project is about 7 minutes long. Main track is DV from a Sony digital 8 (my usual camera). I have a track with titles, another with some 3d figures chroma-keyed in, and a couple audio tracks of camera sound and imported music. One event uses Satish's Shatter 3d plugin. Ie, nothing unusual, and nothing I haven't worked with successfully with before. This project played fine many times in version 3.

In V 4, I can play the timeline from the beginning to about 4 minutes in. usually around the same spot, the preview window hangs, the cursor on the timeline hangs, and sometimes I get a bizarre message about "unable to open vegas.exe" and something about the drive on which the vegas application sits. Usually have to hard reboot.

I've tried copying and pasting the whole project to another V 4 file; same result.

I've tried deleting the most likely events that might be the problem: the events around the usual hang spot, the Shatter3d clip, chroma keys, etc. Got the same result.

Any ideas?

Hmmm..... posting this gives me the idea of opening it back up in version 3 (still on my hard drive) and fooling with it there.

Thanks,

G









Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/18/2003, 1:58 PM
This may not work, but worth a shot and it only takes a few minutes. Open the VEG is version 3. Do nothing to it. Don't change anything, don't try to play it. Instead immediately after peaks build save the file to a new name using save as. Shut down Vegas. Restart and load the new file and play it all the way through in version 3 start to finish. If OK, try to open in version 4 and see if it still hangs.
mikkie wrote on 6/18/2003, 2:09 PM
If BillyBoy's suggestion doesn't work, perhaps renameing the folder where your content resides? This would allow you to locate files etc. one at a time, maybe identifying the problem.

Erk wrote on 6/19/2003, 10:44 AM
Guys, thanks for the suggestions. Alas, I must have saved the .veg as a V 4 file, so I can't go back to V 3. I'll try the folder renaming next. I gather you're thinking about forcing Vegas to find each file, and instead of telling it to use all the files in the new folder, accept one at a time on timeline, and play it until the last file added generates a problem? I'll check it out.

G