Why 3 Project Nested Veg Limit?

kentwolf wrote on 6/26/2007, 7:34 PM
I have 18 sub projects that are part of a master project.

The subprojects are nothing complicated; about 2 to 3 minutes long each; about 7 tracks with WAV music, video clips, stills, etc.

If I seek to import these subprojects into a master EMPTY veg file, I cannot import more than 3. On the 4th one, it just "thinks" forever as it seeks to import the 4th veg. It never happens.

I have another heavily populated veg project. I can import as many sub project veg files as I want. No problem. Same stated veg files, in fact.

Heavily populated project: No veg import limit.
Empty veg file: I cannot import more than 3.

I rarely, if ever, have any Vegas probems at all.

Any idea why this may be? I am running 7.0E.

Thanks much!

Comments

jrazz wrote on 6/26/2007, 7:57 PM
No idea Kent, but could you not populate the veg and then add the other veg's as nested and then delete the file that is unwanted?

j razz
kentwolf wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:00 PM
That is precisely what I am trying to do.

I just rolled back to 7.0d and could add 4, crashed on the 5th.

Investigating...

Thanks.
kentwolf wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:42 PM
Well, no luck.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.
farss wrote on 6/27/2007, 1:07 AM
Just guessing here.
When you add a nested veg Vegas creates a proxy. Have you run out of space on the drive where the proxies are stored or have some form of problem on that disk?

Have you tried adding .vegs #1, #2,#3,#5 etc to see if it's something unique to just one of the projects?

Bob.
kentwolf wrote on 6/27/2007, 1:39 AM
>>...Have you run out of space...

That is a good thought but I checked that before. Plenty of space.

It did not seem to matter what projects I added. They are all different, but very similar in contruction.

I even made some bogus projects with simple generated media, but got the same result.

I rock-solid 3 projects I can add.

I appreciate your ideas though.

Thanks!
Grazie wrote on 6/27/2007, 1:59 AM
Not that I know what I'm talking about, but is it possible that you have "cross" reference media? Meaning some media being looked for that is also being used somewhere else within the chain and that your PC is grumbling about it?

Bottom line here, is there an actual Nest-Horizon that we can;t cross? A maximum nests within nests? Maybe you have reached THAT by using a circular reference? Bit like a circular reference within spreadsheets?

Dunno . ..

Grazie
dand9959 wrote on 6/27/2007, 8:39 AM
You might check your source media for bad files. I once had somehow gotten an .avi file of 0 length in a project and it causes all sorts of problems - though not in the veg in which it was used! In particular, I could not include the veg that used that 0-size file in a master project.