Recapture Media: Clip Not Named?

Grazie wrote on 5/14/2006, 5:46 AM
I have done this procedure before, not often, but executing it now.

I deleted some previously captured files from a drive.

I reopened the Veggie that these files were owned by and, of course, Vegas offers me the option to recapture.

Not a problem.

Slip the correct tape in deck. VidCap goes off and does its thing. The media I require gets cued up correctly; is see and can confirm it is the media I want; VidCap goes of and captures and even informs it is capturing the correct clip name. Great!

Problem is that when VidCap finishes capturing it gets called "Clip 1" and not the name of the media I asked to be recaptured?

Batch capture even reflects the correct name and tape name. But the re-captured clip is stubbornly NOT using the Project name for that recaptured clip?

What am I doing wrong?

TIA

Grazie

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Grazie wrote on 5/14/2006, 8:20 AM
UPDATE:

I've discovered that UN-USED media which has been deleted from a DRIVE folder AND the Folder has been deleted too, VidCap WILL use the new folder address and re-capture WIT the correct name. Easy!

However, any Media that IS being used on the Timeline, and is being displayed correctly as "Media Offline" will not only NOT be named with the existing name but with a default new "Clip 1", "Clip 2" name, but would have had the redundant/previous and now deleted capture PATH as part of its details.

What I had to do was manually "force" the new Capture Path via the Batch Capture details FOR that Media and have it directed at this NEW folder. Once I had done this the existing Media names were re-used and not a default Auto "Clip 1", "Clip 2" etc etc . . . Meaning, selecting a NEW path under VidCap's "Disk Management" did nothing to alter this.

So, when it comes to Recapturing Off-Line Media AND retaining their existing names within the Project Media Tab:

* Recapturing UNUSED Media = YES

* Recapturing USED Media = BAD

Solution: FORCE the NEW Path within Properties WITHIN Batch Capture!

Grazie
apit34356 wrote on 5/14/2006, 8:45 AM
Grazie, I have a silly question. After recapturing the clips in VidCap, just close vegas and restart it, when prompted for search pathway, point it to the new dir for the files. Would not this be less work?
Grazie wrote on 5/14/2006, 8:59 AM
No, not a silly question at all.

And yes I thought I would do the "Go find Fido!" thing. But I guess ALL it would have done would have been to bring back the "alternative" which in this case WOULD have been the unhelpful sounding "Clip 1"; "Clip 2" . .etc etc. That's why I wanted a "fool-proof" - I use the term very carefully - so that I would "see" the Media appropriately named.

No not silly, and does go to the crux of the need to have things recaptured as was.

I have now recaptured with the "old" names successfully in place.

Grazie