VV3 No video/audio build Peaks (Please Help)

mavericc wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:01 AM
Hello,
I am still new to Vegas Video, but have never had this problem before tonight. I started a project and everything was fine. However, after about an hour the program has quit showing video and audio in the timeline. All the timeline shows is like white events where the video was and shows the video file name over the white events where the video used to be. It now happens every time I drag just a simple jpg, bmp, or mpg, avi any file. I have rebooted the system and still no luck. This happens now on my old projects I load and even when I create new projects. I am at a lost. I don't know what happend was working fine and all of a sudden stopped working.

I have an Windows XP Pro Machine.
I have three user accouts setup on my PC.

Vegas still loads on one of the accounts just fine and builds peak great. However, on my tv account this is where the problem happens. Please, help with this issue because I use this account for all my video settings and I don't know what would happen from one minute to the next to make a program quit loading all the way for just one user.

I even updated to vv3.0c to help no luck with this issue.

Thanks for any help. I greatly appreciate it.

Dan

Comments

Grazie wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:05 AM
It would seem that the VV project can't "see" where your media is. Hmmm. . . Do you get an initial "Where is my media?" type of warning when you start this VV project? I run external firewire drives - and if I forget to plug them in, quite rightly, VV isn't very impressed with me - yes? Have you tried to "locate" where the media is on the hd's, where ever they might be?

Just a thought,

Grazie
mavericc wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:13 AM
Thanks for the quick response.
However, Nope, no where is my media message.
All the files are stored on my IDE hard drive. No firewire for me yet anyways.

Also when I change to a different user it works just fine building the peaks and loading for the same project and even my old project. Thats what is confusing.

Thanks again for the quick respose.

Dan
mavericc wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:55 AM
I am still not sure what happened. I will post what fixed the problem because I have seen some other posts that were close to my problem.

Here is what I did.
On the account that was having the problems I went into options then preferences. I then change my temp directory. Hoping that would fix the problem nope. So then I clicked default all button under the options/preferences general tab. Yeah Video came right back in. Everything builds and works again. I am not sure what happend exactly or if this was a windows xp user account problem or just a glitch. I hope this may be of use to someone. Wow, I was at a lost.

Thanks
Dan
snicholshms wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:58 AM
Maveric:
Sounds like you might have a problem due to Windows user settings.
A veg file saves the path from the last "save". If you switch user accounts I do not think the veg file will be able to find the media for that project.
I don't think you can change users in the middle of a project.
You might want to have only one user account set up strictly for video editing.
Steve
sonicboom wrote on 12/29/2002, 2:29 AM
mavericc
maybe you renamed some of the files
just a thought
sb
Grazie wrote on 12/29/2002, 6:04 AM
Well Mavericc, I did say "It would seem that the VV project can't "see" where your media is" - maybe [I don't have XP or the language/terminology ] by making everything reset to "default" , temp included, you've given your VV a chance to "get-hold" of your media again. Sorry, didn't use the XP words. Good that you've come back on stream. Yeah, I guess Sonicboom's & Snicholshms's responses might be the way to go in the future - yes?

Seeyah,

Grazie