How to force Vegas to look inside only into the .veg folder?

yan-k wrote on 8/23/2018, 4:43 PM

I think it may be a simple question.

OK, suppose I have a folder named "Presentation" with a finished project. In this folder I have the PRESENTATION.VEG and all the respective contents files (footage, pictures, soundtrack, etc).

Now I want to start a new project named "Party" based on the "Presentation" one to recycle all the setup (positioning of logo, introduction footage, etc). Then I just open Windows Explorer click over "Presentation" folder and drag it to create a copy and then I rename this copy to "Party". Also I go into the new folder and rename my PRESENTATION.VEG to PARTY.VEG.

OK, now the problem is: within the new PARTY.VEG if I right-click any used file (a footage for instances) and go to properties it is still pointing to the file in the old "Presentation" folder and not to the one in the current folder.

How can I "fix" it? Thanks!

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/23/2018, 5:13 PM

One way would be to temporarily rename the PRESENTATION folder, then open the PARTY.VEG and it should ask where to look for the files.

yan-k wrote on 8/23/2018, 6:00 PM

One way would be to temporarily rename the PRESENTATION folder, then open the PARTY.VEG and it should ask where to look for the files.

Thank you very much! I don't know why I didn't think of it... worked like a charm!

xberk wrote on 8/23/2018, 6:00 PM

Why would you want to duplicate all your media for a second project that uses the same or some of the same media? Use "save as" .. I keep my veg files in one folder and all the media in other folders for use with numerous projects.

Paul B .. PCI Express Video Card: EVGA VCX 10G-P5-3885-KL GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA ,,  Intel Core i9-11900K Desktop Processor ,,  MSI Z590-A PRO Desktop Motherboard LGA-1200 ,, 64GB (2X32GB) XPG GAMMIX D45 DDR4 3200MHz 288-Pin SDRAM PC4-25600 Memory .. Seasonic Power Supply SSR-1000FX Focus Plus 1000W ,, Arctic Liquid Freezer II – 360MM .. Fractal Design case ,, Samsung Solid State Drive MZ-V8P1T0B/AM 980 PRO 1TB PCI Express 4 NVMe M.2 ,, Wundiws 10 .. Vegas Pro 19 Edit

digilyd wrote on 8/24/2018, 11:49 PM

Why would you want to duplicate all your media for a second project that uses the same or some of the same media? Use "save as" .. I keep my veg files in one folder and all the media in other folders for use with numerous projects.

Some of the time that can be relevant, for instance if using a separate source media drive to avoid simultaenous read and write on the same spindle. But Vegas would be more helpful if it was able to remember a "project current directory" and a "media current directory" for open and save requester windows.

 

fifonik wrote on 8/25/2018, 9:12 PM

> Then I just open Windows Explorer click over "Presentation" folder and drag it to create a copy and then I rename this copy to "Party".

You could open your "Presentation" project in Vegas, and then "Save As" under "Party" name in separate folder with "Copy Media with project" option checked.

Or open your "Party" project in Vegas, click "Remove unused media from project", "Save As" the project with "Copy Media with project" option checked in a new folder and then delete your old "Party" project. In this case you will have your "Party" project in the new folder and only media that is used by the project will be copied there.

Camcorder: Panasonic X1500 + Panasonic X920 + GoPro Hero 11 Black

Desktop: MB: MSI B650P, CPU: AMD Ryzen 9700X, RAM: G'Skill 32 GB DDR5@6000, Graphics card: MSI RX6600 8GB, SSD: Samsung 970 Evo+ 1TB (NVMe, OS), HDD WD 4TB, HDD Toshiba 4TB, OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2

NLE: Vegas Pro [Edit] 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22

Author of FFMetrics and FFBitrateViewer

yan-k wrote on 8/27/2018, 8:12 AM

Why would you want to duplicate all your media for a second project that uses the same or some of the same media? Use "save as" .. I keep my veg files in one folder and all the media in other folders for use with numerous projects.

Some of the time that can be relevant, for instance if using a separate source media drive to avoid simultaenous read and write on the same spindle. But Vegas would be more helpful if it was able to remember a "project current directory" and a "media current directory" for open and save requester windows.

 

Thank you for the advice! I will take it in consideration!

yan-k wrote on 8/27/2018, 8:16 AM

Why would you want to duplicate all your media for a second project that uses the same or some of the same media? Use "save as" .. I keep my veg files in one folder and all the media in other folders for use with numerous projects.

Some of the time that can be relevant, for instance if using a separate source media drive to avoid simultaenous read and write on the same spindle. But Vegas would be more helpful if it was able to remember a "project current directory" and a "media current directory" for open and save requester windows.

 

I agree, and also while this technique may help to save some space it may be a bit of a hassle if you have to share a single project with someone else. Also if you do crap in the unique folder where you collect all the basic elements it may ruin all of your projects tied to it. I confess that I am a bit freak about such things.

yan-k wrote on 8/29/2018, 10:13 AM

> Then I just open Windows Explorer click over "Presentation" folder and drag it to create a copy and then I rename this copy to "Party".

You could open your "Presentation" project in Vegas, and then "Save As" under "Party" name in separate folder with "Copy Media with project" option checked.

Or open your "Party" project in Vegas, click "Remove unused media from project", "Save As" the project with "Copy Media with project" option checked in a new folder and then delete your old "Party" project. In this case you will have your "Party" project in the new folder and only media that is used by the project will be copied there.

Good tips, specially the part "Remove unused media from project". I am a new user and so I wasn't aware of this resource!