Offline media and VLC

belker wrote on 1/26/2010, 4:32 AM

A friend of mine who is not very computer literate is editing his movie on Vegas 7. He was having trouble with some green screen keying and accepted the help of a student. The student came to my friends place with a laptop to copy the files to take with him. Apparently he loaded VLC Media Player on the machine. Now, when my friend opens Vegas there are numerous files offline which he can not access. These same files will however play in VLC so they are still on his computer.

He has asked my advice as to what to do. I know nothing about VLC but was going to suggest that he just uninstall VLC and that might free up his avi files.

Could someone explain what is going on here or offer suggestions?

As I don't know what else the student did it is possible that VLC is not the problem.

Thanks,
Belker

Comments

cbrillow wrote on 1/26/2010, 4:45 AM

You'll probably read that many of us on the forum use or have used VLC in the past without conflicts or difficulty. Frankly, I doubt that this is the cause of the problem, but it's always wise to retrace your steps when something goes wrong. Uninstalling VLC is always a possibility and it can be reinstalled, if it's found not to be the culprit.

Since you're not sure if anything else was done to the machine when VLC was installed, my suggestion would be to use System Restore to roll back to a date just prior to the student's visit.

BudWzr wrote on 1/26/2010, 6:59 AM

Look for "recapture offline media" in Vegas.

belker wrote on 1/27/2010, 4:15 PM

Thanks for your responses.

I will be going to my friend's house on a couple days to try and straighten out this problem.

Belker