Recorded files folder Default!!!

MixNut wrote on 12/4/2002, 10:07 AM
Hello,

Would anyone else here agree with me when I request the following new feature for v4...?

SOFO-Please, please, please do not allow Vegas to default to C:/Program Files/Sonic Foundry for its recorded files folder. In fact, don't allow it to default to *anything*! Always force the user to define a folder location anytime Vegas can't find the one previously specified in project properties. I realize that there's a prompt at project open, but that doesn't prevent catastrophic loss of data!

I'm now going to go tell my client that overdub vocal tracks and guitars on one song we recorded 2 years ago are *gone* because, for some unknown reason, Vegas defaulted itself to record on my C: drive instead of the project drive where all other tracks for this album are stored. These tracks were apparently erased when I uninstalled and deleted the Sonic Foundry directory to upgrade from v1 to v3 a few months back. And, they didn't get backed-up because I didn't catch the fact that they weren't with all the other tracks in the folder that did get backed up!

This is not the first time this has happened...Another engineer lost material in a similar manner.

SOFO-Please figure out a way to make it much more difficult to do this!!! At least give me the option to childproof this function. We use removable drives, so relative drive paths change from session to session. This obviously enacts Vegas's defaulting behaviour frequently and heightens the odds that tracks will go missing again someday.


Thanks

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 12/4/2002, 10:31 AM
We did try to solve this in Vegas 3- you should see a message box pop up asking you to specify a record folder when you arm a track in a new project. If you aren't seeing this, ctrl+shift when restarting Vegas will reset all prefs...and you'll see it.
MixNut wrote on 12/4/2002, 12:42 PM
Ahhh...OK. This was recorded in v1, just before an upgrade to v3. I'll look for that default parameter.

Thanks.
SonyDennis wrote on 12/6/2002, 1:11 PM
Also, to be in line with Windows XP compliance, our products (starting with ACID 4 and CDA 5, and next year Vegas 4) default to putting 'user files' in the 'My Documents' folder. No files will default to being stored in the application folder.

///d@
tboydva wrote on 2/4/2003, 5:38 AM
Is there any way in V4 to set a "default" recording directory... I (as I imagine many others) always record to a non-system drive (specifically for audio and/or video). It would be VERY helpful to have a setting in the preferences window for default recording directory.
roger_74 wrote on 2/4/2003, 5:51 AM
Also, ever since Vegas 3, the suggested installation path is hardcoded to "C:\Program Files" when in fact this folder might be called something else in another country. In Sweden it's called "C:\Program".

Vegas 2 correctly identified "C:\Program".

Nowadays Vegas is the only software I have that has this "flaw". It used to be quite common though.
tboydva wrote on 2/4/2003, 7:22 AM
Found it! All I ever need to do is get frustrated enough to post on the board, then I immediately find my answer and feel like a fool. Here's what you do to set the defaults you like: Open a new project, then go under File>Properties. On the video tab, you set your prerenders folder. Under the audio tab, set your recorded files tab... Now check the box on that says, "Start all new projects with these settings." Viola! Each time you arm for record in a new project, it defaults away from the insidious "My documents." I think it would be easier to have this in the overall program preference settings, but as long as there's a workaround, I'm happy. Who's with me in stoning the person at MS that came up with the "My Documents" idea?!
rmchitti wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:10 AM
What about keeping the audio file path relative to the Vegas project, rather than an ABSOLUTE path? For my projects, I work with subfolders under a folder called Media, which include Media--->original, Media--->encoded, Media--->vegas. The .veg projects specify the audio path to record to the media---original folder. I'd like to create a generic folder that contains say 10 .veg files all with predefined recording paths to the original folder. The problem is, once I create this generic folder, make a copy of it for a particular project, the audio paths are no longer valid, since the folder name has now been renamed.... Thoughts??

Grazie wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:23 AM
" ( . . . and next year Vegas 4) " . . .errrmmm ... clue here people? . . . ;-)

Grazie
jetdv wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:25 AM
Uh.... Grazie, that was written in 2002!
Grazie wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:29 AM
Eh? . . . Where was I? - Jetdv, I don't understand . . . :-(

G
PeterWright wrote on 2/12/2004, 7:14 PM
>"Who's with me in stoning the person at MS that came up with the "My Documents" idea?"

Maybe they were stoned when they did it.