How to disable annoying audio proxy build in V10?

ken c wrote on 9/12/2012, 8:26 PM
hi - I should know this, after using vegas for so many years, but can't find in preferences for V10, how can I disable the annoying "building audio proxy" and subsequent huge files that are automatically built when I drop a video file on the Vegas timeline?

Many of my renders I don't need to see the waveform for, so for the standard default how to disable that? It's a constant annoyance, and/or getting "error building audio proxy" message occasionally too.

thanks! sorry for asking a newbie question, I've used vegas daily for years and still don't know all the details...

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farss wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:03 PM
You can disable waveforms (under View) and thumbnails but you cannot disable the building of proxy files as far as I know.
Audio proxy files are created when Vegas strikes an audio stream it cannot handle very well. Without Vegas building them there'd probably be other issues for you to contend with.

Bob.
musicvid10 wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:29 PM
To reinforce what Bob said, building waveforms and building audio proxies are two completely different things. You can disable the waveforms in Preferences.
ken c wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:30 PM
Hi Bob, thanks - and hey good to see you and a lot of the others still here, all these years later. Thx too musicvid. I spend much of my life watching music vids, always have.

V6 seemed like not too long ago, now we're up to 12 coming. Thanks for the tip, much appreciated. Hey how's Spot? Haven't seen him or Manny in years.

-k
farss wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:33 PM
"Hey how's Spot? Haven't seen him or Manny in years."

Me either, since his accident he's been pretty quiet around here but still quite active on his Facebook page. I hope to get to NAB next year and catch up with him there.

Bob.

ken c wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:36 PM
Yeah, I'm very thankful to DSE for his training, because it was his video training for Vegas 4 that got me out of manually splicing VHS tapes (really!) and into using Vegas, now I've published 50+ dvds and hundreds of hours, building a business, and Douglas' training was what got me started and trained. He's a great guy.

here's my amazon review (ken calhoun etc) from 2004:

http://www.amazon.com/Demand-Douglas-Spotted-Editing-Workshop/product-reviews/B00009XFQM/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

wow it's been 8 1/2 years. hard to believe all that time has passed


-k
farss wrote on 9/12/2012, 9:59 PM
"wow it's been 8 1/2 years. hard to believe all that time has passed"

Please don't remind me.
Gawd, life was so much simpler back then,
Win2K + V4,5,6. PD150s, everything in focus, monitoring on a CRT via firewire, pure bliss.

Bob.
ushere wrote on 9/12/2012, 10:34 PM
Win2K + V4,5,6. PD150s, everything in focus, monitoring on a CRT via firewire, pure bliss.

you sure summed it up - bliss.
Glenn_G wrote on 9/12/2012, 11:10 PM
Does anyone else have these audio proxies rebuild every time the .veg is opened. Is there any way to "save" the one that been built so the veg file open process does not have to rebuild the proxy if its already been built.
farss wrote on 9/12/2012, 11:42 PM
"Is there any way to "save" the one that been built "

It's been a long time since I had Vegas have to use them, only when I had tapes with 12 bit audio on them or perhaps more recently some wierd camera that used mp4 with some "free" audio codec. Both times the proxies stuck.

Bob.
NickHope wrote on 9/12/2012, 11:50 PM
You can also disable the building of the waveforms by clicking "Cancel" at the bottom left of the timeline (or trimmer?) as they are building. I have no idea if this would also disable the building of proxies as I have never had Vegas need to build one.
ken c wrote on 9/13/2012, 7:30 AM
yes I've clicked "cancel" during it's attempt to build them, hundreds of times over the years. it would be great if vegas would let you not have to do that manually... a simple preference checkmark like "don't automatically build audio proxy" or similar, would be very helpful... it's a major annoyance to have to manually click "cancel" every time I use vegas, to prevent it from auto-building proxies, and also it would be great to disable making those space-consuming .sfk and other files