VP13 and corrupt video file question

BobMoyer wrote on 4/19/2016, 2:51 PM

I have a panasonic camera that gives me .MTS files. When I get back home I select all and copy/paste to my HD. I then load them (select all from the explorer and drag them to the new timeline) in VP13. I recently did this and it began to 'create peaks'. There were 56 clips of 5.1 sound so it takes a few minutes. I finally realized that Vegas had hung on the very last clip. It seems as though vegas did not like it. It created the .MTS.sfk0 file but not the .MTS.sfk1 file. The video file and sound played fine in Win media player but nothing in in vegas. I re-copied it from the camera but the same thing happened. Thankfully it was not needed, but was just curious if it could have been saved if it was important.

Bob

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john_dennis wrote on 4/19/2016, 6:28 PM

Was file 55 of a size that might have been at the boundary of the camera card file system? If so, did you make no effort to recombine 55 and 56?

musicvid10 wrote on 4/19/2016, 6:44 PM

Tried importing from the card using Vegas Device Explorer?

BobMoyer wrote on 4/19/2016, 7:51 PM

John - the total amount of video footage was 13.4 gig on a 32 gig card, broken up into 56 clips. I have done this same process for over two years, sometimes 12 gig, sometimes 14 gig and never had a problem before (the amount of individual clips also varies from 44 to 56 clips).

musicvid10 - no, I did not try that. Actually I have never used that method, always just copy/paste from card to HD. But I will give that a try tomorrow.

Wonder why Vegas created the .sfk0 file but not the .sfk1? What info is included in each of these file types?

Thanks for responding.

Bob

john_dennis wrote on 4/19/2016, 11:30 PM

"[I]Wonder why Vegas created the .sfk0 file but not the .sfk1? What info is included in each of these file types?[/I]"

Since I'm not a coder, I can't tell you what's in the files (except that the data describes the audio peaks). I did an experiment where I let Vegas generate peaks for a 5.1 AC3 file and a WAV stereo down-mix of the same file. The stereo WAV file produces an .sfk file while the 5.1 file produces an .sfk0 and .sfk1 file. It's interesting that the stereo .skf file and the .sfk0 files are the same size. This leads me to guess that the .skf0 might be a map of a stereo pair in the 5.1 file.