For reasons unknown but possibly due to the data drive being fragmented and nearly full, several recent short but complex Vegas edits simply disappeared. No VEG file no VEG BAK files. Some music files disappeared too.
I can recover the music files from the orig. I can't even find the VEG files. I did a search. Not there. I most definitely did not "erase" the VEG files. Did an error correction and defrag on the data drive. No recovery. The VEG files are simply gone. This has happened several times. It may be Microsoft Win2000 Pro's file management's fault, but the files are gone.
Vegas 5 also will begin opening a previous edit, almost get it open then present a dialog box informing me "Warning: An error occurred while loading the project file xxx.veg. The file is an unsupported format." I click OK and an empty untitled Vegas window opens. No show. Not very reassuring.
This is considered professional editing?
A future Vegas upgrade should include automatically created backup files on the C: drive in the Programs folder. The automatic backups should not be on the same drive as the data. If something goes wrong with the data drive, all is lost.
Media 100 does this with great reassurance. Every couple of minutes it's autosaving a backup version to the program drive. You tell it how often and how many versions it should save before it starts overwriting the earlier versions. VEG files aren't that big. Vegas should be doing this.
I am a single voice in the midst of a pile of Macs trying to prove the PC and Vegas in particular are suitable for a professional editing environment.
So far, Vegas isn't up to the task. It's a nice try, but it's no Media 100. It has lots of features and pseudo "real time" (until you get that two-hour render to do) but it can't even open a show I did three weeks ago.
And if it's Microsoft's fault that files unexpectedly and irretrievably disappear, all the more proof that editing should be done on a Mac, not a PC.
I can recover the music files from the orig. I can't even find the VEG files. I did a search. Not there. I most definitely did not "erase" the VEG files. Did an error correction and defrag on the data drive. No recovery. The VEG files are simply gone. This has happened several times. It may be Microsoft Win2000 Pro's file management's fault, but the files are gone.
Vegas 5 also will begin opening a previous edit, almost get it open then present a dialog box informing me "Warning: An error occurred while loading the project file xxx.veg. The file is an unsupported format." I click OK and an empty untitled Vegas window opens. No show. Not very reassuring.
This is considered professional editing?
A future Vegas upgrade should include automatically created backup files on the C: drive in the Programs folder. The automatic backups should not be on the same drive as the data. If something goes wrong with the data drive, all is lost.
Media 100 does this with great reassurance. Every couple of minutes it's autosaving a backup version to the program drive. You tell it how often and how many versions it should save before it starts overwriting the earlier versions. VEG files aren't that big. Vegas should be doing this.
I am a single voice in the midst of a pile of Macs trying to prove the PC and Vegas in particular are suitable for a professional editing environment.
So far, Vegas isn't up to the task. It's a nice try, but it's no Media 100. It has lots of features and pseudo "real time" (until you get that two-hour render to do) but it can't even open a show I did three weeks ago.
And if it's Microsoft's fault that files unexpectedly and irretrievably disappear, all the more proof that editing should be done on a Mac, not a PC.