I had to take a minute to calm down before posting this. After running smoothly on 594 since it was released, and on 682 for two months (haven't moved to the latest build yet and right now not quite sure which NLE direction I'm going in) the bug has hit in the end stages of a 2-hour-long documentary edit.
My editor had copied/pasted clips from multiple instances of Vegas on several occasions over the past few weeks and today on opening the project it was severely compromised to say the least. Thank god for Timeline Tools. I'm too flustered now to recall the author at the moment, but if Sony hasn't given you MONEY for it yet, something is very wrong.
I made detailed notes of every correction that I made, and will try to repro all the copy/pastes exactly so I can report to SCS every step that was made prior to the disaster. In each instance of a replaced clip, the active take name (in this case always numbers) was changed from the original take name - which had matched the file number of the camera clips in the project before corruption. After the bug hit, Edit Details showed that a new path had been assigned to each wrong clip which contained the correct file name/number, but pointed to a different directory path!
For example, if the original correct clip had a Take Name of 00050, and was located at Projects/Exteriors/00050.mts, the replaced clip would have a take name of 00049 and Edit Details would show its path as Projects/Interiors/00050.mts. And the new (wrong) paths went to multiple directories, not just the same one repeatedly. Hope I'm being clear - If I'm too frazzled to make sense now, my next post will after I regain some composure.
Timeline Tools found several other clips with mismatches between Take Name/Path that were probably ripe for replacement on next project load, so I corrected them as well. (To clarify, the clips on the timeline and their paths were correct, but the take names had been altered)
I recall release notes saying this had been solved in 510/511?? This is such B.S.! Perhaps its time to take my blinders off. Just because I LIKE Vegas, and have defended it for years, I'm not willing to sacrifice my career for it.
My editor had copied/pasted clips from multiple instances of Vegas on several occasions over the past few weeks and today on opening the project it was severely compromised to say the least. Thank god for Timeline Tools. I'm too flustered now to recall the author at the moment, but if Sony hasn't given you MONEY for it yet, something is very wrong.
I made detailed notes of every correction that I made, and will try to repro all the copy/pastes exactly so I can report to SCS every step that was made prior to the disaster. In each instance of a replaced clip, the active take name (in this case always numbers) was changed from the original take name - which had matched the file number of the camera clips in the project before corruption. After the bug hit, Edit Details showed that a new path had been assigned to each wrong clip which contained the correct file name/number, but pointed to a different directory path!
For example, if the original correct clip had a Take Name of 00050, and was located at Projects/Exteriors/00050.mts, the replaced clip would have a take name of 00049 and Edit Details would show its path as Projects/Interiors/00050.mts. And the new (wrong) paths went to multiple directories, not just the same one repeatedly. Hope I'm being clear - If I'm too frazzled to make sense now, my next post will after I regain some composure.
Timeline Tools found several other clips with mismatches between Take Name/Path that were probably ripe for replacement on next project load, so I corrected them as well. (To clarify, the clips on the timeline and their paths were correct, but the take names had been altered)
I recall release notes saying this had been solved in 510/511?? This is such B.S.! Perhaps its time to take my blinders off. Just because I LIKE Vegas, and have defended it for years, I'm not willing to sacrifice my career for it.