How to move things and make them neutral

RexA wrote on 6/24/2004, 1:46 AM
This is probably stupid and obvious to most of you. I guess it was covered long before I was paying attention.

I have a veg in a directory that references only a few files in that same directory.

I copy the veg and its files to a different folder, but the veg still references the full original path for the files. (It happens to be on a different drive.) How do I make it relative to the current folder?

To expand a bit on this theme... How do I make a veg like the examples I download that have no full paths and only relative paths?

Seems simple, but I never had occasion to try it and I am baffled so far about how to remap the references to files.

Glad I can add a simple question to the mix. I haven't seen one like this in a while.

Comments

Grazie wrote on 6/24/2004, 1:53 AM
In essence aren't you replacing an event with another? Albeit with the same name?

Okay, choose one of the files in the Medai Pool; Right Click; Replace; Navigate to the "new" place of the file .. does that do it?

There will be a slicker way to do it .. that's what I'ev come up with so far .. it works for me ..

The only thing is that if you've got a different named file that IS the replacement, that "new" name wont - or is hasnt done so far - appear in the Evetn info on the T/L .. But in your case it is the same name anyway, so no problems - yeah?

Grazie
RexA wrote on 6/24/2004, 2:21 AM
As far as I can see, that replaces one full name for another full path name.

J:\somplace\file1 becomes e:\anotherplace\file1. Either way I can't share that with friends or even have a neutral version saved for myself. What I want to see is just: file1 relative to the same folder (or directory for us old school guys) and no added path info.

When I look at the example veg files I have downloaded that have a file or two included, they seem to have accomplished what I want to do. I want to know how they did that.

Now I am seeing, that if I back up my stuff without regard for this and my drives change, I will need to spend lots of time finding the files even if they are right there in the restore.

Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2004, 3:20 AM
This is mostly a guess; i haven't taken the time to exhaustively research this yet. It seems to me though that if you save the .veg file in the same directory as the media files then it uses relative path names. If you move the .veg and media files all together to another directory then it keeps the relative paths intact. This is what i almost always do. If you have the media files in a different directory than the .veg file then full paths are used. In this case you can move the .veg file around all you want and the full paths still point to the same media. If you move the media files then Vegas will have to be told where to find them again.
RexA wrote on 6/24/2004, 3:34 AM
I still don't get it.

I did move the veg and all its related media files to a new directory. When I look at properties by right clicking on the timeline or in the media area they still point back to the original source.

I don't know how to make them relative to their new home, let alone how to make them just relative to the veg home and not specific to my drive/folder scheme.

P.S., I did a save of the veg in the new directory where I had moved the veg and all of its files. Everting still points back to the original home. I don't really even see how to tell it to only apply any changes to these local files and not the originals.

Should be simple (I think) but I don't see it.


I'm pretty sure I looked at a veg sample I downloaded and it referenced a file that didn't have any path info -- just file1.png not c:\xyz\file1.png
PeterWright wrote on 6/24/2004, 3:54 AM
An idea

Rename the folder the original files were in.

Now open the new project - it shouldn't be able to find the files if it's still looking for them in the original position, so it will ask you to tell it where they now are .....