Peak building still a major problem

bruceo wrote on 4/15/2008, 1:12 PM
More and more we are seeing peak building bog down our workflow. Over the years occasionally when we open a project we would see a file or two rebuild a peak which was a pain, but didn't take too long but now on V8b often it wants to build almost all if not all the peaks which makes it about an hour or more load time before we can start working.

I thought maybe the drive letter was changing so that vegas couldn't find the sfk so it would rebuild, even though it should automatically look in the same root that the source .m2t is at, but drive letter makes no difference.

Is anyone else getting this or is this just happening on all 4 of my machines?

Comments

riredale wrote on 4/15/2008, 6:43 PM
I don't see it on V7d, for what that's worth.
fldave wrote on 4/15/2008, 7:47 PM
On my XP machine, I have V7 and V8. I work mostly in V7 on that machine. Occasionally I open my V7 project in V8, and it starts to rebuild peak files. I quickly cancel it. But when I then open it in V7, I have to rebuild the peaks completely in V7.

Are you networked with more than one person using the files? Maybe someone is opening them with an older version of Vegas?

I know what you mean, I have a couple of projects that are 8-track 24bit/96Khz and it takes forever if I make that mistake of opening with the wrong version.
Laurence wrote on 4/15/2008, 8:04 PM
Maybe you aren't doing this, but if you rename a clip from Windows explorer it will redraw the waveform in Vegas, but if you rename it from the Vegas explorer window, the SFK and SFL files are renamed as well and nothing needs to be redrawn. I got quite a few redraws before I figured this out,

Same thing with directory moves, cuts and pastes, etc. Doing it from the Vegas explorer window makes everything a lot easier to keep track of.
rs170a wrote on 4/15/2008, 8:06 PM
Doing it from the Vegas explorer window makes everything a lot easier to keep track of.

Great tip!!!.
Thanks very much.

Mike
bruceo wrote on 4/15/2008, 8:07 PM
none of those scenarios at all, no renaming, networking etc etc. Just a normal project in a folder as I've done since 1996 12 years later and it takes longer that it ever has to get into a project......