well, I'm afraid I may have. What I KNOW is that after finishing the first render, I moved the folder containing the original AVCHD streams. Then, when I just tried using the veg file again I had to help it find the "missing" files.......

To me, it seems as though the edits in the veg file got moved around somehow. is there a way to lock or some how keep additional movement of files & fx once completed?

I'm hoping I don't have to re-edit the piece. Any help is appreciated ...

thx!

I'm not sure I understand this. I've moved files around before and not run into this problem. At worst Vegas will come up with a "file off line" warning and ask to relink.

There is something else going on here and the only thing I can think of is different files with the same name.

When you import from your cam is it set up to give sequential file names or is it set up to start again at file 0000 when you erase the cam and do another shoot?

the files are numbered sequentially. I guess it could be seeing multiple files some how....it's confusing. how i've been starting the program is by double clicking the veg file , opening the vegas program. I'm wondering if I shouldn't "clean the slate" so to speak & start from scratch somehow. .... look around to be sure I have no other rogue files...then begin again to see what happens.....

I'm kinda lost. obviously I can just re-edit this stuff but really would get this figured out now to avoid doing whatever stupid thing I must of dobe?!

Have you tried loading the backup file?
I have had my machine put imported clips where I didn't want them, even though I told it where to put the files. I had to search to find them, then things were OK.

Lynn

Is it possible when you opened the project after you moved the files and Vegas asked for you to locate the offline files you pointed it to the wrong file?

To be honest I've had a project file get trashed once or twice over the years but the project was totally toasted i.e. would crash Vegas.

To get something as subtly wrong as to loose sync and not trash the project enitrely is kind of hard to imagine happening.

I always Save As to sequentially numbered project files very regularly and keep all of those versions. Project files are tiny in the grand scheme of things and having one to go back to has saved me a few times when this kind of thing has happened.

Bob.

thx to all for responding so far...really appreciate it.

tomorrow I'm going to clean everything up & try to start over...

Bob,

when you say; "I always Save As to sequentially numbered project files very regularly and keep all of those versions." do you mean the veg files? I get the impression you're talking of other files.

I have lots of AVCHD home video from the last 2-3 yrs that I want to edit & already in this short period of time I've learned the importance of preserving the initial edits (veg files?) so I can render to whatever the flavor of the day is. At least, with the veg files, that's what I thought I was doing!

I bought a Vaio AW190 notebook so I could edit these files, burn to Blu-ray AND to stream rendered files from my home media server via HDMI to my projector. Now, I know how very simple most of what I've just described is for most of you on these forums....I've learned a lot just following some of the threads....but I have run into all kinds of obstacles. Before I continue editing all of the AVCHD I have, I need to figure all of this out....even burning to blu-ray...seems there are many options...not sure what the best way or tools to use are. So, any help and suggestions on where else to get info would be welcome!!

"do you mean the veg files? "

Yes.

e.g. Project-01.veg, Project-02.veg....

Obviously instead of Project I use a more descriptive name.

One feature I do like in another program is Increment and Save. Just makes it that little bit easier....

Bob.

Yea, I save every 2-3 edits but I simply save the veg file to the same one, updating it. You apparently save as creating a new file each save?, giving you multiple saved veg files of the same project, correct? if this is the case &, if I did that, then I would have the one before the final save to use since the final got messed up somehow....I would then only need to make last couple edits to complete, then render....am I following what you're getting at?

I have checked everything i can think of and the only conclusion i can come up with is that I must have accidentally moved some of the edits on the time line without realizing it.

Is there a way to lock the veg file once editing s completed to avoid errors like this?

"I would then only need to make last couple edits to complete, then render....am I following what you're getting at? "

YES!

Bob.

"Is there a way to lock the veg file once editing s completed to avoid errors like this?"

Not really although I guess you could flag it as Read Only and Windows would prevent it being over written. Of course if you don't Save a project it doesn't change....

Bob.

Thanks alot, Bob. I'll add this to my lessons learned.

Now off to make another mistake!

JR

Thanks alot, Bob. I'll add this to my lessons learned.

Now off to make another mistake!

JR