VV6 can't find media

vicmilt wrote on 12/8/2005, 10:53 AM

Hi all...
I've been working on a video project for over three years (yikes).

During that time I've migrated from VV4 to VV5 to VV6 and from 80gig drives to 160's and last week to 300's.

Now my old VEG files won't ask to find media. Instead they slooowwly build a project and then crash. Details in the error box say: Can't find media.

is there a way to force the project to find the media?

v

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DavidMcKnight wrote on 12/8/2005, 11:38 AM

Which of the following (if any) did you do just prior to this error happening? -

1. Change to 300 gb drives
2. Upgrade to V 6
3. Turn media manager on or off?

vicmilt wrote on 12/8/2005, 12:26 PM

It's all sort of pretty piecemeal - I have two or three assistants that work part-time and the video itself is drawn from about 20 days of shooting over the three years.

We have definitely turned Media Manager off. While I LOVE it conceptually, because we are in and out of various projects, we keep all media and VEG files on separate Firewire drives. We also installed the individual MM on each drive, as you would expect. The problem is that this media management isn't always bug-free. When it works, it's spectacular. But the continual swapping of drives that we do, tends to throw things off - probably because we are negelcting some button or other.

The change to 300GB drives was the most recent with additional moving of files into various other folders. We are spoiled by Vegas's ability to find those files, no matter what.

Now it won't. So if there's a way to force it into "manual" - that's what we need.

Thanks in advance,
v

busterkeaton wrote on 12/8/2005, 12:36 PM

Do you still have SV 5 installed?

Can you let it build the project in that, save that veg and open in in SV6?

vicmilt wrote on 12/8/2005, 1:12 PM

hmmm... intersting approach - i'll give it a try, but some of the edits are VV6 based already.
And quite a few are edits done on pre-edited lists, not directly sourcing the AVI's themselves.

what a mess

vicmilt wrote on 12/8/2005, 2:26 PM

BusterKeaton -
You My Hero!

We found an old archived version of VV5 and reloaded it.
It's opening a LOT of the old stuff.... hooray.

Now that everything is in one place (on two 300MB drives) we'll be more organized.

Thanks for your help on this.
v

busterkeaton wrote on 12/8/2005, 6:26 PM

Glad I could help.

Grazie wrote on 12/8/2005, 9:53 PM

Vic, just in case you aren't aware of it, but veggies "saved" in V6 can't then be opened in V5? I realise you may not be doing this but just so you know - yeah?

Grazie