Saving Media with project

Videot wrote on 8/13/2004, 8:51 PM
I'm interested in the option to save a trimmed copy of your media along with the project & wanted to see just exactly what is happening. If you instance you had a project where you used clip 1, 2 3 & you timmed the ends of clip 2 & saved the project using this option just what is saved? Does clip 2 get overwritten or do you get 3 new clips of which only the second one is trimmed.

I tried the option out & was able to recall it ok but could not find any new clips in Explorer. If I had found the trimmed clips would it still have the original clips name or that of the project & would the information from your camera about the time & date it was recorded have beeen retained?

I assume that you would still have to delete your original clips if you wished to save space. Is this correct?

Comments

stormstereo wrote on 8/14/2004, 2:26 AM
Save with trimmed media is a great option. When you're finished editing, just do a "Save As" to a NEW folder on your drive. Trim as many seconds as you want in the dialogue that pops up, it can be useful to have a few seconds head and tail if you want to adjust something in the future. Everything needed to restore the project is now COPIED to the new location and some of the files will have new names.

Your original project and files will stay unchanged in the old folder/s and can be deleted to free up space.

A TIP: Before doing a "Save with trimmed media" I always make sure my timeline/project is completely finished. Then I click the "Remove unused media" (lightning bolt icon in the media pool) to remove any files that are not in use in the timeline. After checking that everything is ok, I go ahead and Save with trimmed to the new folder.

WARNING: One user on this forum had problems when doing this. We found out it was because he had used MPEG's on the timeline. For various reasons Vegas couldn't see where the files started and ended correctly and the result was a screwed up video when he opened the newly saved project. He had to render the mpeg's to AVI, then use them on the timeline. This way Vegas would see the correct time-information in the files. Other "strange" file formats might have problems too, we don't know yet.

So the conclusion is:
1. Always try to use DV AVI's in Vegas.
2. ALWAYS open and thoroughly check the newly saved project before deleting the old one.

Best/Tommy
VMP wrote on 8/14/2004, 10:46 AM
Also the "Vegas couldn't see where the files started and ended correctly"
Problem occur if you use the "video velocity envelopes". It Does not matter how long or short the clips are on the timeline, the whole source footage will be stored.
For example if the original footage is 1 hour and on the timeline is 5 seconds Vegas saves 1 hour footage instead of 5 seconds. May be this is because of the speed change in the footage. The only solution what I have found to bypass this problem is, to copy past all clips containing 'Velocity envelopes' to new vegas project, then removing the envelopes, then saving the project trimmed.( with extra tail) then replacing those clips with the original. and placing the velocity envelopes again.
( Vegas 4 and 5 has this problem) hopefully this problem will be solved with Vegas 5c? I use the 'Velocity envelop" often