Media Offline?

[MusoukaProductions]

I have two hard drives: a 80GB main hard drive with all my programs and then a 250GB HD with all my files. I had to reformat the 80GB because of general problems and that meant I had to reinstall Vegas. All of the files I am using in my AMV are on the data drive so nothing was touched. However, when I load up my .vf file now, it says that all my clips are "offline." Help?

[Pwolf]

same drive letters as before?

[LivingFlame]

You should be able to right click your clips in your Project Media tab and click "Replace." That will let you point to where the file is.

[MusoukaProductions]

same drive letters as before?

Same Drive Letters

You should be able to right click your clips in your Project Media tab and click "Replace." That will let you point to where the file is.

Tried this, didn't work. [/quote]

[LivingFlame]

...when I load up my .vf file now...

This may be dumb of me, but what is a .vf file? All my project files are .veg files. Is that like in an older version of Vegas or something?

[MusoukaProductions]

...when I load up my .vf file now...

This may be dumb of me, but what is a .vf file? All my project files are .veg files. Is that like in an older version of Vegas or something?

I'm using Movie Studio 8.0b which is the latest version (there's 8.0c, but that's just a patch that adds HD support). I've only used Vegas once before this project and my old project file was a .vf.

Figured out my problem. All the clips were in DIVX format. I could play them fine in Zoom Player and GSpot said I had the correct codecs installed, but I knew I didn't have the actual DIVX codec installed, only XVID and h264. Downloaded the DivX codec, installed, and media is no longer offline.

[Phantasmagoriat]

I'm glad you fixed the problem, but:

aside from the errors that may/not occur, I wouldn't do it because DivX isn't frame-accurate due to inter-frame compression. [now if the DivX files have all keyframes, that's another story...]

[TaranT]

...when I load up my .vf file now...

This may be dumb of me, but what is a .vf file? All my project files are .veg files. Is that like in an older version of Vegas or something?

VF refers to "VideoFactory" - which is what Vegas Movie Studio was called back when it was produced by Sonic Foundry (c. 2002). Neither one of which was or is the same as Vegas Pro.

[LivingFlame]

...when I load up my .vf file now...

This may be dumb of me, but what is a .vf file? All my project files are .veg files. Is that like in an older version of Vegas or something?

VF refers to "VideoFactory" - which is what Vegas Movie Studio was called back when it was produced by Sonic Foundry (c. 2002). Neither one of which was or is the same as Vegas Pro.

Thanks for the explanation. I've never used any Vegas products but the Pro versions (7 and 8), so I had no idea that Movie Studio was so different. That explains some things, lol.

[TaranT]

Thanks for the explanation. I've never used any Vegas products but the Pro versions (7 and 8), so I had no idea that Movie Studio was so different. That explains some things, lol.

Well, they're not all that different. Think of Movie Studio as "Vegas Lite". The user interface is pretty much the same, but Vegas Pro is capable of much more.

And in fact, if you do a File-Open in Vegas Pro, you may find a VF file type listed there. It's there in version 4 (which I use); not sure about version 7 or 8. I tried opening an old VF file that I have and it actually works.