I have a tiny variation to the same-drive-and-folder-name solution (and I'm not in front of my home machine right now so I can't verify this works in Vegas 'til later tonight):

Rather than using the same drive letter and base directory, you could "share" your base directory and give it a sharename (like VideoSource). Then, reference your media files with the path \\LocalHost\VideoSource\... Assuming Vegas is ok with this, the sharename notation gives you the flexibility of using different drives on different pc's, and also you could then use totally different physical drives on your two computers (maybe something like c:\work\video\source on one machine and, say, e:\src on another). As long as the sharenames match, all should be well. (I use this type of trick alot with my software development environment).

David

Thanks Kelly and David,
>>>What i would do is make sure that both computers have a complete set of all media files<<<
Maybe I'm going about all this in the wrong way, I "saved as" from my PC to the other (selecting the trim media with heads and tails) in a shared folder. When I save as from the other PC back to mine, mine looks for \\the other computer name\shared folder\...
Is this the wrong way to go about it?
Thanks again guys,
Randy

Let me make a slight adjustment to what I said previously. For some reason, if you type in \\localhost, it doesn't work quite right in Windows itself. I'm actually using \\127.0.0.1 as my root (which is the localhost address).

For fun, go to Start Menu / Run and type \\127.0.0.1 and press OK. You'll get an Explorer window with all your shared directories. I just did this, and went to a share called Videos and dragged an avi into Vegas. I then right-clicked the media, went to properties, and the filename was \\127.0.0.1\Videos\sample1.avi .

So... if I were to then move my veg file to another pc that had a "videos" share, and sample1.avi was in that directory, presumably the project should open just fine.

What I suspect happened in your case was that you grabbed files from \\YourMachineName\Videos. Try the \\127.0.0.1\Videos trick.

Let me know if this works.

Be sure that you clear media pool/project media before sharing/saving. This will save a lot of grief.

Thanks David, I'll definitely give that a shot next time!

Spot, you mean do the clean media pool thing where it removes everything but what's on the timeline right?

Hey thanks very much guys,
Randy

When you save with trimmed media you get new files with different file names. You also get separate .w64 files for the audio. This may not be a problem as long as you always use these new files from now on. Of course, if you do another save with trimmed media you will again get all new file names. It does seem unnecessary though and that it would be simpler to copy the original files to the other computer once and be done with it.

Maybe an even better method, if you have a spare PC with a good amount of drive space available, would be to have the .veg file and all media files on a separate PC and use that as a server. Any other PCs on your network would be able to access that single .veg file (not simultaneously though) and all the media files from that server. This would avoid moving the files at all. As long as all the PCs accessing it use the identical share path (and that seems very likely) then Vegas will never have any difficulty finding the files. If you don't have too many layers going on then 100mbps should be plenty fast, but gigabit ethernet is also very cheap now.

I totally agree with the networked solution. And ditto on the GigE pricepoint being reasonable now. For about $60 you can get a 4-port switch, and Tiger Direct sells long-length Cat-6 cables dirt-cheap.