Opening older projects (Need urgent help)

Arnar wrote on 1/24/2004, 9:20 AM
I recorded an album in vegas 3 and now im opening in vegas 4 and they dont sound the same. Some have minor differences but others are are just a mess where timetretched beats are out of groove.
So i installed veg3 to open them up and then i get this message.

"The file is most likely corrupted or of an unknown format. a chunk has an illegal lentgh"

This might mean that it was actually recorded on veg 4??
its been a while since this was recorded so cant guarantee it wasnt recorded on an older version of veg 4 but then they might have changed the timetretched algo since then.

What i would like to know is ...how can i find out exactly the version the tunes were recorded on???
Does it make sense that older recordings dont sound the same in respect to the timestretch algo´s?

Someone tell me whats going on and how to solve it as this album has to be finished now and currently the whole project is a mess.

thanks
Arnar

Comments

PipelineAudio wrote on 1/24/2004, 10:12 AM
before you do anything else, make a copy of that mix file, and then save as + copy and trim media files and reopen the new one. Sometimes it helps
Rednroll wrote on 1/27/2004, 3:24 PM
The timestretch algorithms where updated in version 4.0. That is most likely for the sound differences, they are suppose to be knew and improved, but are likely to sound different, if you open up a project not created in v4.0. Hopefully, you didn't open the project in v4.0 and then hit save without changing the name. This would make it a v4.0 .Veg file and therefore incompatible in v3.0 any longer. Hopefully, you have the project backed up somewhere else before you hit save in v4.0.
ibliss wrote on 1/27/2004, 10:44 PM
Even if he had opened it and saved (once) in V4, the *.bak of the veg file will still open in V3 - it is just the original file with the bak extension added.

If you open the veg file in notepad, in the first few lines of the file you should see a reference to either v e g a s 4 . 0 or v e g a s 3 . 0 - if it doesn't leap out at you then carrry out a 'find' for 'v e g a s' (with the spaces.

Note - this isn't guaranteed to tell you the right anwser, but it seems consistent for the files I have.