V9 Rendering without my telling it to

The Kid wrote on 5/26/2009, 8:07 AM
Ok I am sure there is a simple solution to this problem but so far i cannot find it. I have been working on several projects and i will close one project and the next day I open that project to find that it has been rendered but I never told the program to render, so now I cannot fix anything that I want to fix because my titles and effects are all rendered in to the Video. Okay problem but I can over come. It was not doing this at first so I must have changed something by accident that I did not want to change, but i am not sure what it would be. Any help on this would be great, and i will put it on my list of things not to do.
Daryl

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Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/26/2009, 8:29 AM
No idea what's going on and have never heard of this happening. Once closed down Vegas is gone. It doesn't sit in the background rendering.

Having said that, surely the project you were working still has the original footage on the timeline with all your effects, titles etc. That's where you need to go to make changes. But surely you know that, yes?

Vegas editing is non-destructive.

Tom
The Kid wrote on 5/26/2009, 8:37 AM
Yes I know that but for some reason when I pulled up the project saving it to a file but not rendering I can't see all my stuff it looks like an mpeg file on the timeline. I click on file like I have always done click on the project i was working on and bam there it is my prject comesup on the time line but it looks rendered and so far I cannot find a way to get it back to the original. Never had this problem before so i though I had clicked on someting i should not have
baysidebas wrote on 5/26/2009, 9:02 AM
Hey Kid, I think that what you're doing is dragging the veg file onto the timeline. Try double-clicking on the file instead.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/26/2009, 9:09 AM
I am still not sure I understand you correctly.

It almost sounds like you 'right' clicked on an mpeg file and said open in Vegas. That would put the mpeg file right on the timeline.

Else, if you are in a project, and go to 'file' > and the choose one of the recently opened projects that had an mpeg only on the timeline.

Do you have 'Automatically open last project on startup' checked in Preferences? Perhaps you could turn that off and search your folders where you save the .veg files and open the one you expect to have the unrendered source files.

Can you post here in point form - step 1, step 2, etc. - exactly what you do and I'll see if I can dupe it. Are you using v9 trial?

Tom

ritsmer wrote on 5/26/2009, 9:52 AM
This is simply not possible :-)

Only way to achieve something like this would be to Render To New track (Ctrl+M) AND then delete all the old tracks AND then replace your project with this "new" project...

However - no problem - just go back to the last backup you have saved of your work.
The Kid wrote on 5/26/2009, 10:09 AM
baysidebas By golly you got it. I never would have thought about that. I guess I have never had that much stuff going on at one time before, because that is what I had to do I just grabbed the veg file onto the time line. This time I doubl clicked it and bang there it was you just saved me a lot of searching a looking and work thanks a million. I already put this on my do not do list. Thanks a lot guys for your help this forum is great
baysidebas wrote on 5/26/2009, 10:25 AM
Just to clarify things, the veg file only looks as if it has been rendered. I believe, although I've never done this on purpose, that this would be a "nested" veg file, still fully editable in its original form, with all edits performed there reflected in the instance shown on the new timeline.
The Kid wrote on 5/26/2009, 10:46 AM
Right I got that now I had just never reopened a file that way before so it threw me off as to what happened. Live and learn. thanks again