Recapture media used in timeline to save disk space

cityanimal wrote on 1/6/2003, 2:21 PM

I am using Vegas with a Sony Vaio Notebook which has only has a 10 gig hd partitioned for video. Aftering capturing and rough editing a project is there a way to create a log of just the clips used in the timeline and then go on to 1. delete the original media files and then 2. re-capture only the media in the timeline? I am a former use of Cinestream and it had a create log from program command that was very usefull in saving disk space. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/6/2003, 2:58 PM

Instead of recapturing, there's an option when saving the .veg file that lets you save trimmed copies of the media with the file. You can create a new directory, save the project with media, and this directory will contain only the portions of the clips that are used. Then you can delete the original clips and project file. There are a few things you'll have to consider though:

- Only uncompressed or DV files will be trimmed. Other compressed formats will be completely copied
- Clean the media pool first. Anything listed there will be copied, even if it isn't in the timeline!
- With only a 10GB video partition, you might not have enough room for the new copies.
- For whatever reason, trimmed video clips contain no audio. The audio is placed in a separate .w64 file.

cityanimal wrote on 1/6/2003, 3:16 PM

thanks chienworks for your help. Saving the trimmed copies of the media should work fine - this is for short projects around 10 minutes. Are there any issues with re-synching the video with the .w64 audio files? Are the file names the same and easily paired? And, by chance, are there any other solutions to the issue I posted?

Chienworks wrote on 1/6/2003, 3:40 PM

Syncing is automatic. The file names will be the same except that a 3 digit index number is added (001, 002, 003, etc.) to cover cases in which a single clip is used in multiple places on the timeline. Each place it is used gets it's own trimmed copy, unless they are identical. The new .veg file is automatically changed to use these new file names.