Saving a project when your hard drive fails

OldTimer wrote on 7/23/2003, 1:17 AM
I had a 20 minute project almost finished when I got the news that my second hard drive, the one which has all of my captured video has crashed & that the data can't be recovered. The veg file that was created by this project is OK & stored on my other drive. Does this help with recovering the project at all? When I try to open the veg file it complains that it can't find my video clips & asks if I stored them elsewhere.

I was thinking along the lines that If I go back & capture the same video with the same scene detection switch turned on that perhaps the same clip might be captured again for the second time with the same clip reference.

Would this work or am I just kidding myself?

Comments

IanG wrote on 7/23/2003, 2:21 AM
It should work - can't hurt to try.

Ian G.
PeterWright wrote on 7/23/2003, 3:14 AM
Rather than hoping that scene selection stops and starts at exactly the same frames (I'm assuming you're coming from DV) Vegas has a question somewhere where it says files are offline, would you like to recapture them? Clicking yes to this brings up prompts to insert tapes, and as long as you still have the original tapes, it should find exactly the same time code, recapture and put your project back to its former glory.

Bummer of a thing to happen, though - I hope you were covered by warranty.
GaryKleiner wrote on 7/23/2003, 10:49 AM
Open the project and ignore missing files. In the Media Pool, right--click one of the icons and choose Recapture all offline media. It will then open the capture utility, and ask you for the tapes. No sweat!

Gary Kleiner
GaryKleiner wrote on 7/23/2003, 10:50 AM
BTW, this is why you should ALWAYS save the .veg files in a different place as your media!

Gary
OldTimer wrote on 7/23/2003, 7:59 PM
Yes the drive is covered by warrenty. This 80GB Seagate drive has already been replaced once before under warrenty.
johnmeyer wrote on 7/24/2003, 11:38 AM
I've recovered lots of files from dead or dying drives using the software from Ontrack:

Ontrack