Setting up autosave to save my current file?

Former user wrote on 4/4/2023, 12:51 PM

Hello. I recently set up autosave on my copy of Vegas Pro 14, but it is difficult to be able to recover from the frequent crashes by having to essentially create a new .veg file each time I'm forced to recover.

Basically, the autosaves are not saved onto the vegas file I am currently working on, it instead creates a whole new vegas file for the autosave in my appdata folder. Every time there is a crash, I have to go into my roaming, open the project, rename it, replace the old one, and pick up where I left off. In the end, I have multiple vegas files picking up where I left off last. Ideally, I'd like to just be working with one vegas file. Is there a way to make it so that the autosave saves on my existing project, similar to how a word document program would do it?

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Dexcon wrote on 4/5/2023, 5:49 AM

 Is there a way to make it so that the autosave saves on my existing project?

Not in Vegas Pro 14 to my knowledge. In any event, what should happen after a crash is that an 'autosave' window pops up next time you open VP asking if you want to load the last autosave. Selecting yes will enable the project to open in its state that existed at the time that the autosave occurred. You can then use File/Save or Save As to save it as a .veg file without the need to go into AppData folders.

Vegas Pro 20 addresses what you want because it has an 'Advanced Save' utility (under the Tools menu) which provides flexible automatic veg saving choices:

Here, you can choose how often VP20 will automatically saves the project as a .veg file as well as where to save it.

Vegas Pro 20 still has the autosave AppData folder process which doesn't seem to be any different to that in Vegas Pro 14.

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Former user wrote on 4/18/2023, 8:12 AM

 Is there a way to make it so that the autosave saves on my existing project?

Not in Vegas Pro 14 to my knowledge. In any event, what should happen after a crash is that an 'autosave' window pops up next time you open VP asking if you want to load the last autosave. Selecting yes will enable the project to open in its state that existed at the time that the autosave occurred. You can then use File/Save or Save As to save it as a .veg file without the need to go into AppData folders.

Vegas Pro 20 addresses what you want because it has an 'Advanced Save' utility (under the Tools menu) which provides flexible automatic veg saving choices:

Here, you can choose how often VP20 will automatically saves the project as a .veg file as well as where to save it.

Vegas Pro 20 still has the autosave AppData folder process which doesn't seem to be any different to that in Vegas Pro 14.

Is this feature at all present in Vegas 19? I'm thinking about upgrading to 19, but also considering my options with saving up for 20.

Dexcon wrote on 4/18/2023, 8:26 AM

I'm thinking about upgrading to 19

From which website source are you thinking about upgrading to Vegas Pro 19? It is no longer available from MAGIX Vegas.

Re Advanced Save, yes, it is available in Vegas Pro 19.

Take care because any website offering Vegas Pro 19 won't be offering an upgrade price - only a new purchase price. If you have a legally purchased version of Vegas Pro 14, you may be eligible for a much lower cost upgrade price to Vegas Pro 20 directly from MAGIX Vegas' website.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2024.5, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX10 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

Former user wrote on 4/18/2023, 9:59 AM

I'm thinking about upgrading to 19

From which website source are you thinking about upgrading to Vegas Pro 19? It is no longer available from MAGIX Vegas.

Re Advanced Save, yes, it is available in Vegas Pro 19.

Take care because any website offering Vegas Pro 19 won't be offering an upgrade price - only a new purchase price. If you have a legally purchased version of Vegas Pro 14, you may be eligible for a much lower cost upgrade price to Vegas Pro 20 directly from MAGIX Vegas' website.

It’s the Steam version of 19 that’s on sale, but I am torn between the sale there and the current sale on 20.

DMT3 wrote on 4/18/2023, 10:31 AM

just be aware of the hardware specs. They are lower on V14 than V20.

Buystockinfun wrote on 12/5/2024, 1:47 PM

 Is there a way to make it so that the autosave saves on my existing project?

Not in Vegas Pro 14 to my knowledge. In any event, what should happen after a crash is that an 'autosave' window pops up next time you open VP asking if you want to load the last autosave. Selecting yes will enable the project to open in its state that existed at the time that the autosave occurred. You can then use File/Save or Save As to save it as a .veg file without the need to go into AppData folders.

Vegas Pro 20 addresses what you want because it has an 'Advanced Save' utility (under the Tools menu) which provides flexible automatic veg saving choices:

Here, you can choose how often VP20 will automatically saves the project as a .veg file as well as where to save it.

Vegas Pro 20 still has the autosave AppData folder process which doesn't seem to be any different to that in Vegas Pro 14.

Good info for Vegas Pro 22. Now to see how live save affects my work as there is a warning that "...real time backup could reduce performance of the application...." I wonder what the default Save interval is? What's displayed? 10 minutes?

Vegas Pro 20 and up has "an 'Advanced Save' utility (under the Tools menu) which provides flexible automatic veg saving choices."

RogerS wrote on 12/5/2024, 10:34 PM

@Buystockinfun Live save is exactly that - it saves after every action, so continuously. I don't use it as I like to try different things on the timeline and frequently revert my changes so don't want them saved.

The Autosave interval can be changed in the internal preferences.

I just use Advanced save which lets you specify the interval and which gets rid of unnecessary backups after a certain number of backup veg files are created.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 12/7/2024, 2:22 PM

I don't like Live Save after being annoyed by over-write warnings opening old projects with newer versions, like I do when I run a benchmark. I think I must have seen this thread because the setting illustrated is exactly what I use. I like the way it puts backups in a sub-folder of each project folder with the ability to easily pull up a prior revision.