utilizing 2 computers

uritrash wrote on 4/2/2002, 5:45 PM
I use two machines, one at the studio, one at home. I used to use Cakewalk for audio projects, but stopped for various reasons. One thing Cakewalk could do, however, was save projects as a "bundle" file, where the project and all .wav files associated with it could be handily saved to CD so it could be transferred and re-opened on another machine with ease. Can Vegas do this? Am I missing something? This feature is essential to me.

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PipelineAudio wrote on 4/2/2002, 6:11 PM
Go to " save as " and check " copy and trim media with project "
uritrash wrote on 4/2/2002, 6:48 PM
thanks for responding. this still doesn't seem to group the project files and the .wav files together for burning. Do I really need to drag and drop all the associated files individually?
Chienworks wrote on 4/2/2002, 8:22 PM
When you do this, all the media files will be saved in one directory with the .veg file. All you'll have to do is copy that one directory to the CD.
uritrash wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:34 AM
I beg to differ. The "directory" you speak of is the Vegas 3.0 folder, where there is a sea of .wav files from all of my projects. If I go to save "song x.veg" to a CD, the only thing that moves is the 16kb .veg file, not the .wav files. I can't believe this can't be done, but I've done everything you all have suggested. It seems fool proof, and yet.................!
Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2002, 6:04 AM
When you do the "save as and copy & trim media with project", to you specify a new folder? Or are you having it save to the same folder your project was in?
vanblah wrote on 4/3/2002, 7:39 AM
You should probably consider saving all of your projects in their own folders instead of the default "everything in the Vegas folder" . You can set this in the properties of each project. File>Properties then Audio Tab for audio files or Video tab for video files. You need to do this for EACH project.
naclhead wrote on 4/4/2002, 12:33 PM
I sure wish there was a way to have Vegas save its files in the folder you're working in by default. I ALWAYS start a new project in a new folder with a descritpive name. But I also seem to forget most of the time the set that item in the properties to have it save all files in that newly created directory. It seems silly to have it save all files in the Vegas directory. That is terribly unorganized. When you want to do a back up or transfer a project as the originator of this thread wants, you have to wade through all the wav files (for audio) and try to figure out which ones belong to which song or project.

Todd
uritrash wrote on 4/4/2002, 4:55 PM
You said it, naclhead, especially when you're dealing with "track 2 recording 3", or "track 3 recording 2", etc. You have to painstakingly name each .wav file to identify it with a particular project. It's too bad, because I like everything else about this program. Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/4/2002, 5:31 PM
>>>I beg to differ. The "directory" you speak of is the Vegas 3.0 folder, where there is a sea of .wav files from all of my projects. If I go to save "song x.veg" to a CD, the only thing that moves is the 16kb .veg file, not the .wav files. I can't believe this can't be done, but I've done everything you all have suggested. It seems fool proof, and yet.................!

no, Chienworks and Pipelined Audio had it right. the *directory* is not the Vegas 3.0 folder. it is whatever new folder you choose to save your trimmed Vegas project into. this is the primary purpose of this function. to save a project with copies of ALL required media files into a new folder for transport. you can also have it Trim all your media files. I use that all the time to have Vegas automatically throw out the parts of the media files that I didn't put into my timeline.

if you can't it to work, check out the help file. there is a section called:
Saving and Renaming a Project (Save As)

with probably better instructions...