I am still new to Vegas and have run into a pretty solid brick wall. Stay with me as this does get complicated.
I have hundreds of mxf files that were imported into Vegas using XDCAM explorer import. I edit away for a few weeks and realize that my library of clips are becoming a jumbled mess inside of Windows explorer. I want to reorganize them in Windows explorer so that as the library is built over time and used for many different jobs, the clips will be organized in a manner that will be logical for me to easily find clips and work with them.
We shoot XDCAM HD 50gb discs. Each disk for each shoot is numbered sequently 01 though whatever. When you get back to edit each mxf clip file on each disc is numbered automatically by the camera sequentially 001.mxf through whatever as well. Before I import them I rename the Disc itself to be specific to the shoot date of the project but I do not rename any of the individual clips.
Lets say I want to import Disc 04-08-01. In my jargon this would be April, 2008 Disc 01. I import the clips into a folder thats named Sony Vegas XDCAM Library and a sub-folder named 04-08. Now, on this particular shoot (there are many other shoots already imported into the library as well) there were seven discs so when I'm done importing there are 7 unique folders inside the 04-08 folder but there is no way to tell after importing which folder goes to which disc when navigating back through windows explorer. I thought I would rectify this problem by simply creating sub-folders named disc 01 through 07 and then putting the correct the unique folder into the correct disc folder and then simply relinking back inside Vegas. BIG MISTAKE!!!
It seems that Vegas and Veggie Toolkit for that matter can't see what I can see as plain as day. That is how to find the uniquely named folder in the correct sub-folder and then correctly relink the missing media for the timeline and project.
Again, an example. Let's say I want to relink Disc 05 Clip 004. Clip 004 from Disc 05 is in the unique folder named B9110500533705C10045080046020224 but what Vegas and Veggie Toolkit both do is to be perfectly content with just finding any clip named 004 in ANY folder within the 04-08 folder. With the example folder B911... Vegas dumbly offers clip 004 in the folder named F822700453705C10045080046020224 for a relink. WHAT??? Why can't it clearly see that the unique folder is the defining element for relinking offline media, not the clip name? Clip names in XDCam are basically useless what matters is the unique folder! Understand that I tell Vegas to look in the correct drive/folder including sub-folders and it can't figure out how to automatically match a unique folder name when relinking offline media? It needs me to point it to each correct individual file?
I know that Vegas gives you the option to try another search for a particular file if you don't like what it offers you but this very clumsy for a couple of reasons. One, the dialogue box for relinking is so small (and can't be resized) that the full path of the clip it shows is truncated and you can't see the important part of the path which of course is the unique folder name. Secondly, after you manually navigate to the correct clip and say yes, it then dumbly says that it has also found 005.mxf in the same folder would you like to relink? One would think now that you've shown it what the correct unique folder is that it would start to catch on at this point and only offer relinks for clips that are from that folder but it simply offers to link 005 (randomly it seems) incorrectly from another unique folder which is not the one that I have nagivated to.
I hope someone will tell me how to make Vegas look for the part of the path that matters when relinking, the unique folder name. The one that is a gazillion letters long to make sure it is unique. Not the goofy clip names created in XDCAM.
Keep in mind that there are hundreds of clips and I'm trying to avoid going in manually one clip at a time and telling Vegas, "look here stupid".
Erik
Erik
I have hundreds of mxf files that were imported into Vegas using XDCAM explorer import. I edit away for a few weeks and realize that my library of clips are becoming a jumbled mess inside of Windows explorer. I want to reorganize them in Windows explorer so that as the library is built over time and used for many different jobs, the clips will be organized in a manner that will be logical for me to easily find clips and work with them.
We shoot XDCAM HD 50gb discs. Each disk for each shoot is numbered sequently 01 though whatever. When you get back to edit each mxf clip file on each disc is numbered automatically by the camera sequentially 001.mxf through whatever as well. Before I import them I rename the Disc itself to be specific to the shoot date of the project but I do not rename any of the individual clips.
Lets say I want to import Disc 04-08-01. In my jargon this would be April, 2008 Disc 01. I import the clips into a folder thats named Sony Vegas XDCAM Library and a sub-folder named 04-08. Now, on this particular shoot (there are many other shoots already imported into the library as well) there were seven discs so when I'm done importing there are 7 unique folders inside the 04-08 folder but there is no way to tell after importing which folder goes to which disc when navigating back through windows explorer. I thought I would rectify this problem by simply creating sub-folders named disc 01 through 07 and then putting the correct the unique folder into the correct disc folder and then simply relinking back inside Vegas. BIG MISTAKE!!!
It seems that Vegas and Veggie Toolkit for that matter can't see what I can see as plain as day. That is how to find the uniquely named folder in the correct sub-folder and then correctly relink the missing media for the timeline and project.
Again, an example. Let's say I want to relink Disc 05 Clip 004. Clip 004 from Disc 05 is in the unique folder named B9110500533705C10045080046020224 but what Vegas and Veggie Toolkit both do is to be perfectly content with just finding any clip named 004 in ANY folder within the 04-08 folder. With the example folder B911... Vegas dumbly offers clip 004 in the folder named F822700453705C10045080046020224 for a relink. WHAT??? Why can't it clearly see that the unique folder is the defining element for relinking offline media, not the clip name? Clip names in XDCam are basically useless what matters is the unique folder! Understand that I tell Vegas to look in the correct drive/folder including sub-folders and it can't figure out how to automatically match a unique folder name when relinking offline media? It needs me to point it to each correct individual file?
I know that Vegas gives you the option to try another search for a particular file if you don't like what it offers you but this very clumsy for a couple of reasons. One, the dialogue box for relinking is so small (and can't be resized) that the full path of the clip it shows is truncated and you can't see the important part of the path which of course is the unique folder name. Secondly, after you manually navigate to the correct clip and say yes, it then dumbly says that it has also found 005.mxf in the same folder would you like to relink? One would think now that you've shown it what the correct unique folder is that it would start to catch on at this point and only offer relinks for clips that are from that folder but it simply offers to link 005 (randomly it seems) incorrectly from another unique folder which is not the one that I have nagivated to.
I hope someone will tell me how to make Vegas look for the part of the path that matters when relinking, the unique folder name. The one that is a gazillion letters long to make sure it is unique. Not the goofy clip names created in XDCAM.
Keep in mind that there are hundreds of clips and I'm trying to avoid going in manually one clip at a time and telling Vegas, "look here stupid".
Erik
Erik