Lost my video while rendering!

pastorb wrote on 9/6/2001, 3:01 PM

First thing...I'm a beginner. I was making my first video and following instructions "Rendering to video format" (pg114 VidFac 1.0) so that I can put it on a vhs tape.
I rendered it and stopped there and shutdown my computer.
Next day when I went to find my project it...it was gone and also all my video in my video folder, even the video that I haven't even used.

Question
1. How do I get my project back and put it on vhs video?
2. How do I get my other video back to view it in Video factory?

System: ATI Radeon 64mb vivo video card, AMD Athlon 1gb, 192mb memory

I don't understand how video cd's work?
Is it possible to burn a video to a CD? or does it have to be a special cd or cd burner?

Comments

steveh wrote on 9/6/2001, 3:48 PM

First thing I'd do is run scandisk and make sure your drive is intact. Did windows shut down cleanly when you finished the rendering? Or did it hang like it tends to do?
Then go into explorer and make sure you have the view set to show all files and their extensions.
Click on Tools, Find, Files or Folders (assuming win98...). Try searching for *.vf files, and click all your local drive, search subdirectories.
If this fails to find your project, search for all files modified within the last couple of days; scan thru that looking for the video files.
Lastly, look in your recycled bin to see if the directory was inadvertantly deleted (but it would have been larger than the recycle bin would hold, and wouldn't have been saved... most likely...)
Other than that, you are probably out of luck without more specialized recovery tools.

For putting your video out on vhs, assuming you can find it or recapture it, does the ATI vivo card have analog outputs for video/sound out? If it does, hook up a vcr, select tv output for the ati card, fire up your video in media player, put it to full screen, and hit record on the vcr. Not the most elegant, but workable.

Jdodge wrote on 9/6/2001, 4:25 PM

Thanks for adding to the forum.
--Steveh has got you on the right track for finding your data.

A bit about VCDs:

You do not have to have a special DVD burner or special media to create a VCD, just a program like VideoFactory 2.0 and a CDr drive. VF2.0 authors VCDs, which are MPEG1 files, and you can burn them to any CDR media. Higher quality CDr/RW discs usually perform better on the pickier DVD players on the market today. Also, some of Sony's DVD players can only play VCDs that have been authored on CD-RW discs. You can read up on authoring VCDs and DVDs at this great website, http://www.vcdhelp.com.