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riredale wrote on 5/17/2005, 8:38 AM
Scenario: you have numerous clips on the timeline, but in the course of editing you eliminate some of them. Later, when you are doing general housecleaning, you physically get rid of those unused clips in your hard drive. But from that point on, whenever you open a veg file that once used those clips, you get the message that the clips cannot be found.

If that's the scenario you imply, there there is an easy solution. Vegas keeps a record of all clips used in the Media Pool. To flush that Pool of unwanted items, first click on the Media Pool window, then click on the paintbrush icon to sweep away the unwanted stuff. Once you re-save your veg file, you won't get the error message again.
newbe wrote on 5/17/2005, 9:59 AM
Thanks, what I want to do is this: after I have finished a project I want to remove all AVI files I did'nt use in that project from the harddrive.
Do you think it's possible in Vegas?
Chienworks wrote on 5/17/2005, 10:10 AM
It's possible, but not automatic. You can use Vegas' explorer window to browse the hard drive and delete files you're not using.

ALL files? What about AVI files you are using in a different project? Do you want those deleted too?
newbe wrote on 5/17/2005, 10:35 AM
No,
say I made a film about my grandsons first schoolday. The film is made and then I want to remove all AVIs captured about that subject to make room on the disk,but I want to keep the project, veg. (film) on the harddisk for futur use.
I may be wrong but I seem to remember 'Remove Unused' to be an option in Adobe Premiere, and this also to be the case with Vegas.
Thank you for the reply.
riredale wrote on 5/17/2005, 10:59 AM
You can probably do what you want pretty easily. When you are saving your veg file, there is a checkbox that says "Copy and trim media with project."

If memory serves me correctly, if you check the box, Vegas will not only save your veg file to a specific location but will also give you the option to save those parts of the original video clips that are used (plus a couple of seconds of extra video at each end of the video pieces). Once you save all those pieces to a different location, you can go in and delete all the original video files.

The next time you open that veg file, it will reference the new bits and pieces that were pulled from the original clips.
newbe wrote on 5/17/2005, 11:11 AM
Thank you very much riredale, I think this is what I'm looking for.
I somehow feld Vegas would not let me down.
Thank you too Chienwoks.