Saving Vegas Projects and Rendered Videos in Vegas Platinum 15

Roberts wrote on 3/16/2020, 7:45 AM

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15. Serial No: P3-xxx

I am running Windows 10 on an Intel Core i7-2600k CPU@3.40Ghz

with 16Gb RAM 64 Bit OS x 64 Processor64

I have three major problems:

1. Saving my unrendered Vegas Projects

2. Saving my rendered videos

3. Creating DVDs using Vegas Platinum 16 and DVD Architect

I keep getting Error Messages like this: "Unable to save your project due to a system error"

Because my C Drive had only 79Gb of space, I took the advice offered on your support page to create a new Temporary folder in one of my external drives with 500Gb of space, but the error message still appears.

Prior to this, back in February, I saved a wedding video project as a vf file on an external hard drive with 447Gb of free space. When the project was completed, I saved it once again, this time an error message appeared:
“Some of the media on the timeline was not trimmed in order to preserve quality”.
The save process then began but then, not long after, another error message appeared:
“An error occurred while saving the project file “24-02-20 Ceremony Complete.vf”. The file could not be created”.
Could you tell me:
1.   Why did I receive these error messages?
2.   What do I need to do to trim the media in order to preserve quality?
3.   What is causing this error?

I am now unable to save any of my work. I am therefore desperately seeking your support.

Yours sincerely

JD Roberts

Comments

j-v wrote on 3/16/2020, 8:00 AM

Your error messages sounds fair to me I think due to your used hardware. Can you specify your used hardware here exactly? But first you have to delete your serial in your Opening Post

Roberts wrote on 3/16/2020, 8:19 AM

I am running Windows 10 on an Intel Core i7-2600k CPU@3.40Ghz

with 16Gb RAM 64 Bit OS x 64 Processor64

I have an Enterprise version of Windows 10 and a 1xTb external Maxtor Drive

JD Roberts

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j-v wrote on 3/16/2020, 8:59 AM

So you have no extra internal harddrive?
How big is the total amount of space on the drive where C:/ is located (with your installed programs) and where is this one located?
Is your external harddrive always connected and always online?
What do you store at that external harddrive of 1 TB?

Roberts wrote on 3/16/2020, 9:50 AM

The 1 Tb drive is an external Maxtor. I also have a smaller external drive (150Gb) for documents. My C drive has 222 Gb, of which 77Gb is free. The C drive is an internal drive containing several programs such as Vegas, Finale and Audition. The 1Tb external H drive is always connected and online. In it, I store several pictures, audio and video files. It has 495Gb of space. I also have an internal 2Tb Data Drive of which 309Gb is used and 1.81Tb is free. this is an internal drive too. Is it possible to re-install Vegas and DVD Architect on this empty drive? Every program I've downloaded seems to always want to be installed on the C drive, that's why it's chocker!

I appreciate your support j-v.

j-v wrote on 3/16/2020, 11:21 AM

My advice to you is to let the programs stay on your C drive and there in "Users/Your username/all the objects" that are able to replace, replace them to your other big internal drive.
Make there partitions where you can put your documents, pictures, video's , audio a.s.o.
On that internal harddrive / partion Video put all your source videofiles for loading into Vegas, etc. for the other sources for Vegas. For export the best you can use ( a partion of) for your render-to location. From there you can later export them to your external harddrive and clean that export partition.
That is about the way I use this programs on my desktop and laptop from signature and I have nowhere any troubles with Vegas or other edit programs.

Roberts wrote on 3/16/2020, 12:14 PM

Dear j-v

Could you clarify? When you say "partitions" do you mean create folders? I'm not an expert, so how do I create the Partitions? Also, I'm not sure what you mean in the sentence beginning, " For export, the best can use (a partion of) for your render to location.

Also, in the C Drive (Internal 79Gb free) when you say. "all the objects" do you mean all the files including the program files and TEMP Folders. Sorry, I'm not a computer expert.

j-v wrote on 3/16/2020, 12:51 PM

Could you clarify? When you say "partitions" do you mean create folders?

No.
I"ll try although english for me is a foreign language and the examples I shall give you are sometimes in an englisch or other languages else than mine.
A partition is a separated part of your harddisc that I only use for 1 type of extra files as video, audio only, etc.
You can reach that option in Windows by clicking the startbutton and go to Start / All Programs / Windows system administration / Disk Management
where I see this

On the lower part I selected my SSD (drive 0) with C/: and a lot of other parts (called partitions) . With me the "Snelle renders" part was an amount of space that never can be used by C, because before I did that I replaced all the data that could be replaced from the Windows/C/: to the other drive ( called drive 1, my second 2TB drive) in parts also called partitons.
You can make a new partition with rightclick on a partition with a lot of not-used space.
The advantage of partitions is that if you delete there something it has no influence on the other partions and Windows ( and with that Vegas) can reach the other files that are needed much better.