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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/21/2005, 7:16 PM
That's the extension for the proxy file that is built when you use nested timelines. You can delete these just like SFK files, but be aware that just like SFK files, the system will need to rebuild if you open a project.
FuTz wrote on 5/22/2005, 8:53 AM
???
Ok for the "deleting" part of the question but since I'm running Vegas 5.0d ; "nested timelines" = ?!
Thanks : I'll delete since I'm currently making space so all this is for "burning DVD" purposes... : )
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/22/2005, 10:04 AM
Sorry, I thought you were referring to Sfap0 files, which are proxy files from nesting timelines in Vegas 6.
Either way, you can delete them. But they shouldn't be very large?
FuTz wrote on 5/23/2005, 5:15 AM
No, not very big files. A few Ko's. But SFAP are a little bigger, one of them being 18 Mo. I dumped everything anyway.
Sometimes it will be a *.sfap0 , other times a *.sfap1 file. Mmmm... what it is, I don't know...
fultro wrote on 6/14/2005, 8:50 AM
It would still be nice to have an answer FuTz's subject..... Vegas generates sfap1 for Video files that are ~3% of the file size of the original.. Whatever they are I do not have a problem with that .. However, and I think this is a fairly new experience, opening audio files in Sound Forge 6 generates sfap0 files that are at least 10 times the size of that file. I don't remember having that file in earlier versions of SF . Opening a CD size file in SF and generating a 5-6 Gig file that takes 6 or 7 minutes is a problem. And trying to cancel the generation in the progress bar at the bottom of the window just stops opening the original file ..Checking this out at another studio I work at that uses SF 8 and found that SF 8 didn't generate that file at all. Allright so upgrade to SF8 you say? Well not til it gets fixed - it is a big disappointment to this SF user since V4 . somehow they managed to wreck a perfectly good app - at least from my experience from two differnet installations of it that I have tried and from reading their forum - and those particular installations have been updated to 8.0a .
Also, I would still like to know what those files do and why I didn't get them before (though I could be wrong about that as it has been a while since I have had to use SF - especially with big files....).
fultro wrote on 6/14/2005, 9:54 AM
Solved - BJ_M has been kind enough to note at the Sound Forge forum where I also posted my previous post that you see here that sfap0 files are generated when compressed files are being opened