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WARHURYEAH

WARHURYEAH

WARHURYEAH

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I've been using Sony Vegas 8 Pro to edit my music video, there's 2 weeks to go and I've almost finished it. It suddenly crashed!

So I re-open it and it said it saved it and it started opening it got to 25% and comes up with this:
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Now after I get rid of it Vegas closes :(

does anyone have any soloution at all?

I have to give it in tomorrow or I will be thrown out of college!
 
ok well there are any number of things you can try here. If you have another user account setup on the pc then try logging in with that and running the programme and opening the file.

Also, does it just crash with that one file or will it do it to all files?
 
OK then it's the file which is corrupt. Do you have an earlier copy you can work with? does the programme make backups? What OS do you run?
 
I run vista, it crashed the first time without any warning, so I opened it up again and it tells me that it's going to open the file as it autosaved and it said that I should save it as another name for a backup. But it never loaded so I couldn't.

And I have no other backups.
 
Which flavour of vista? Ultimate has previous versions which might be of use.

Do you have another PC you can install the programme on to try opening the file on that?
 
I'm on Vista home Premium 32 bit.

I don't have vegas anywhere else. But the problem is that if I do put it on a different PC I would have to then transfer GB's of files over between the two.
 
I'm sorry buddy, without knowing the programme better I don't think i can help :(

The only thing i would try is creating a new user account in control pannel (make it an admin accound). Log in with it, run the programme and see if the file opens that way...
 
Where do you save your movie? try enabling hidden files and folders and checking if there's a hidden previous save there. I know that's what happens with word.
 
Couple of other things to try:

1) Check the folder where your file is for a copy called yourfile.bak as froma quick google Vegas does backup files.

2) If you haven't messed around with Vista too much you may be able to restore the file using Vista's previous versions option. Right click file > Properties > Previous Versions Tab.
 
I used the bak file but it doesn't give me anything helpfull, just a poor slow avi type file with half the video gone :(

And I dont have a previous versions tab :S I never have had one.
 
Can't you apply for an extension for the deadline?

Did you delete any older files at all? You might try a program called Recuva, but I don't think it'll work with those kind of files. But, if you can't do anything else, might try it.
 
No I didn't delete any files, all the work related to it is in one folder, I only move things in, I don't overwrite and I don't take anything out.

Everything was going fine, there was nothing strange going on with the program. It just closed, restarted, error message.
 
Damn, wouldn't work then.
I'm stumped then.

And you cannot apply for a deadline extension or anything? I mean, any computer based projects "should" have relatively flexible deadlines due to unforseen circumstances like these...
 
And you're not overclocking your pc are you? Just incase your RAM maybe spurting out incorrect calculations etc...
 
I've just managed to get a Sony Vegas downstairs working on build a. Doesn't work :(

And I'm on a lappy, what is this overclocking you speak of?

I've got to get up early to go to college to give them some work and tell them what's up, then I've got to go to the other college.

I will try to get an extension, the problem is that I spent a good few months on doing this. I had done a rough edit and was doing a polished edit, which was the very long part. I had 2 weeks to go and tbh. I would need a month and a half to get this done again.
 
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