Saving glitch in 10b

darg wrote on 12/29/2010, 3:05 PM

I'm puzzled, I did the change to 10b las weekend and everything was fine, at first. After having heard so many complaints in rgeard to crashes I was expecting hell but so far everything went well, untill yesterday.
I checked some of my projects which I'm working on since a couple of weeks with 10a to see if 10b works out and all of a sudden in two of the 14 projects one scene in the beginning of the projects is changed from the actual clip to a generated text clip of the exact length and with the same filter applied like I had on the clip?! The generated text is used in the beginning of the project and still there and nothing else than a black background with white text, fade in&out.
I had something similar like this in 10a but that was affecting only a sound track.
So I brought my original clip back in, saved the project and went out of Vegas and started again and the clip was gone again. I checked the saving option to save via TXT file and the clip is nowhere mentioned. Even "saving as" did not help. I had to "save as with clip media" on a different drive to get a new veg with the clip saved in it. Anybody else had that?

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Dreamline wrote on 12/29/2010, 3:50 PM

I have a similar problem where generated media suddenly becomes a clip that is in the project and is no longer generated media.

darg wrote on 12/29/2010, 7:51 PM

So you have the exact opposite. Have you tried the save with media? Seems like the veggie gets somehow screwed and can not overwrite this clip.

LanceMGY wrote on 12/30/2010, 12:16 PM

Oh good grief, so this problem still persists! I'm not happy to hear about it, and I wish I could offer an easy suggestion to fix it. I first noticed this back with Vegas 9 (don't remember which version a-e), and it's caused some major headaches at our TV station with a few projects. We had issues in which video media for a clip would be swapped out for other media. The workaround for that was to rename the wrong media after closing the project, then upon opening when it asked for missing media, we'd specify the original correct media, and all was well. The bigger problems came when generated text would get replaced with other generated text clips, or sometimes a text clip would reset to "Sample Text" thus erasing everything we'd typed. And I have seen a couple instances where a media clip on a timeline would be replaced with generated text. There's no simple file replacement when errors happen with generated media. During the worst case of this happening to a project, clips would be swapped as we were working in the project. So as you made each edit, you never knew if something further back on the timeline would screw up. Also I've seen generated media clips used on a timeline, then next time the project is opened, they're "offline" even though the correct generated media clip is still in the project media.

It's an actual problem that's been reported to Sony numerous times, yet it seems it's not totally fixed. Fortunately it's rare, but when it does happen especially on large projects, it's a nightmare. I would suggest creating concurrent versions of your projects as you work on them, particularly the complex projects with more than one or two types of media.