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Disappearing video--
by Lauren Anderson on Sep 10, 2012 at 8:00:01 pm

I don't know the right terminology to describe what's happening to me, but this is a picture of my screen:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b316/vh3/Vegas.png

As you can see I'm almost done editing this video, but everything I have already made won't show. I tried to save it and only the audio was saved.

You know how you can see some thumbnails of your clip on the editing lines? All I get is that empty pink box. The video clips on the editing lines are there with the transitions, but I can't watch them. All the clips have come from the same main file (which you can see is loaded and able to play fine.

HOW do I fix this!? It's driving me crazy.
At this rate I can't successfully edit anything.

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Re: Disappearing video--
by Steve Rhoden on Sep 10, 2012 at 10:19:06 pm

You have either renamed or relocated the folder in which
all your original video files are located. Close Vegas and
reopen the project, you should then be prompted to locate them.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

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Re: Disappearing video--
by Lauren Anderson on Sep 11, 2012 at 12:03:24 am

Thank you for your quick response.

Instead of getting the locate file pop-up I'm getting these two:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b316/vh3/vegas2.png

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Re: Disappearing video--
by John Rofrano on Sep 11, 2012 at 10:32:43 am

Could you please provide us with full resolution screen captures? I really can read the type on that small image. Use the photo upload button here at the COW instead of using a 3rd party service.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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Re: Disappearing video--
by Lauren Anderson on Sep 11, 2012 at 1:49:56 pm

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Re: Disappearing video--
by John Rofrano on Sep 11, 2012 at 2:38:02 pm

OK, now I can see that you're editing WMV files. This is a bad idea. What other types of files are you editing? As you can see by the error, Vegas can't handle the audio in WMV fiels so it needs to build audio proxies and the proxy creation is failing for some reason. The best thing to do is not edit WMV files with Vegas. WMV is a highly compressed delivery format, not a good editing format.

What you might want to do is convert the WMV files into another format that is easier to edit and replace them in the Project Media. You can do this by creating a new project, place the WMV file on the timeline and render to Sony MXF. Then go to the WMV media in your original project, right-click and select "Replace" to replace them with the MXF files. This will edit a lot smoother (assuming you can render them from a clean project)

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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Re: Disappearing video--
by Lauren Anderson on Sep 11, 2012 at 5:25:10 pm

T H A N K Y O U!!!!!
You guys are geniuses.

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Re: Disappearing video--
by John Rofrano on Sep 11, 2012 at 5:26:41 pm

Did that work? (I assume it did)

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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