VEG: how to point to a different place...

FuTz wrote on 10/10/2007, 1:58 PM
I found this old file containing veggies that were saved with media.

Now, I still got the original media, with unsplit clips, on another drive ("container drive").

Is it possible to open these Veggies without having them to automatically open the trimmed media (already assigned/saved with) in the project, but instead re-point these Veggies to the "container hard drive" I got?
I probably could save the Veggies on a different drive, open my machine and unplug this drive containing the original Veggies saved with trimmed media AND re-start/open newly saved Veggies and re-point to "container drive" ... But, is there an easier way to do this (that I don't see right now) ?

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rmack350 wrote on 10/10/2007, 2:16 PM
So you saved the Veg file with trimmed media? I'm betting you have to use that media now but it's easy to test. Just make a copy of the veg and put it into the same folder as the originals. Open *That* veg file and I'll bet it uses the media in its folder. In any case you don't mess with the original veg file this way.

Rob Mack
Chienworks wrote on 10/10/2007, 2:24 PM
One huge pitfall is that your 'trimmed and saved' media isn't a one-to-one match with the original media. You'll have a separate file for each event on the timeline, and audio from AVIs has been split out into separate .w64 files. The .veg file created during this process is rewritten to reference all these new subfiles. So ... when you try to use that new .veg to access the old media, you can easily tell it to use the same original file for each sub event made from it, but every event will start at 0:00:00;00 (or whatever trim allowance you specified) rather than from the correct spot in the file. Also, all the audio events will be empty because you didn't have separate audio files in the original media. It will be a horrible mess!
FuTz wrote on 10/11/2007, 10:30 AM
Hoop-laaah... didn't figure, on the spot, that so much was involved.
Thanks for infos guys
vicmilt wrote on 10/11/2007, 2:00 PM
Just for the hoohah, try this.

Go to the drive that has the later (now unwanted) footage and relabel the folder(s) that the media lives in with an "X" at the end of the name; ie FootageFolderX.

This will force Vegas to look for the footage at it's opening.
Point Vegas to the older (now wanted) drive, and see what happens.

I ALWAYS tell my students, "Don't Think!! Try it out".
Thinking leads you to what you already know. You may not know as much as you think.
Try it out - experiment - don't limit your experience with your (mighty) brain. What have you got to lose?

Let us know how it goes.

v
Chienworks wrote on 10/11/2007, 2:07 PM
Vic, excellent advice! That's why you'll often see me posting in here comments like, "did you try it?" or the slightly more petty "you could have tried this yourself to see what the result would be in less time than it took you to post your question in here."

However, in this case of trying to use a 'save with trimmed media' .veg file with the original media, there are going to be some issues that will make the experiment a nearly dismal failure. The whole structure of the media has changed and the relationship to the original files is lost.