Save as "veg" problem

newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 1:38 AM
My Vegas 6b Media Manager is still not working but the nice Vegas support people are working on that problem.
In the meantime I began a new project with Vegas 6. (without MM)
Here's my problem: I have 2 video and 2 audio tracks open.
Also 1 music track.
When I do "save as" and then reopen this project all tracks have become 1 video and 1 audio track.
I have compared all the settings I can think of with those of Vegas 4 and can’t find anything that could cause this problem.
In the help I read this;
"From the File menu, choose Save to save changes to the current Vegas project. When a Vegas project (.veg) is saved, all of the layout of tracks, envelope adjustments, effects parameters, etc. are saved in this project file."
This does not happen here, what am I doing wrong?
I hope this makes sense to you good people and hope to get some help soon.
Thanks

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/26/2005, 1:43 AM
Just a silly idea here... you ARE opening the .Veg file right? Not an AVI file?
newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 1:55 AM
Thanks Iiam for your very fast reply, but yes I'm opening the veg file I saved.One thing that maybe is good to know; when I open the veg. file, Vegas renders before opening the new track ?????
Marco. wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:04 AM
Which way do you re-open the saved .veg-File? As a nested project in another new opened project?

Marco
newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:15 AM
No Marco, I just go "File .... New " and then go to the file where I saved the "veg " and drag it into Vegas.
Thanks.
Eric
John_Cline wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:22 AM
You must go to "File" > "Open" and load it from there. If you drag it on to the timeline, Vegas v6 now treats it as a nested timeline.

John
Marco. wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:25 AM
If you do drag the .veg-file into a new project then actually you do a nesting. And the behaviour you described is what is to be expected. This is the way nesting works.

If you want a .veg-file to open as a own project you should double-click the .veg-file or choose is directly by "File/Open ...".

Marco

P.S.
I see John was way faster ... ;-)
newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:32 AM
Hallelujah John this works, you saved my day, in Vegas 3 and 4 I have always done it by draging, it always worked, but who cares, now I can go on working with V6.
Thank you all.
Eric
newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:36 AM
Not slower Marco, you are helpful too.
Thanks,
Eric
John_Cline wrote on 6/26/2005, 2:38 AM
Yeah, Vegas 3, 4 & 5 didn't have nested timelines and for that matter, neither did 1 or 2. Nested timelines is a new feature of Vegas 6 and one that I now use ALL the time.

John
jetdv wrote on 6/26/2005, 4:55 AM
Eric, instead of dragging it to the timeline (which will nest it), right-click it and choose "Open Project". I was also used to dragging it but have now gotten used to the new method.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/26/2005, 9:06 AM
If you drag it to the title bar, instead of the timeline, then it opens it rather than nests it.
newbe wrote on 6/26/2005, 9:45 AM
Hi John, thanks for your reply, but i'm not sure what you mean by "title bar".
Where can I find it?
johnmeyer wrote on 6/26/2005, 3:34 PM
The "title bar" is the bar at the top of every window, in every application. The "x" that you use to close an application is found at the far right of the title bar.
newbe wrote on 6/27/2005, 2:59 AM
Hi John, I see what you mean, however on my system this method doesn’t work.
But I now have enough info on this topic so that I can keep working on my project.
Thanks for the help.
Eric.