Patrick Tracy
December 6th, 2021, 06:07 PM
I had a rather disturbing experience today. I opened a Vegas Pro 18 project on my desktop and it gave an error message ("Unable to find Vegas project file" or something) and got stuck in some sort of loop. The "building peaks" progress bar in the lower left corner was stopped on 0% and the program stopped responding to input. The only options were "Close program" and "Wait for program to respond" (which it didn't do after about five minutes).
This is an audio-only project that I had spent a lot of time on. I had done quite a bit of detailed fine tuning that I could never quite reproduce, and I had just gotten approval to consider it done and ready to release.
I tried reopening it several times different ways (e.g. opening another project first then via recent files), but no luck. I also tried copying the file with and without all the source files, but that didn't change anything.
Fortunately, I had just recently loaded Vegas Pro 18 on my laptop. I connected the USB drive with the project folder to my laptop and opened the project. It gave the same error, but also opened the window you get when you drop one Vegas project in another in a nested fashion. I canceled that operation (which took a while), then deleted unused source files from the Project Media list and saved the project. When I moved the drive back to the desktop, the project opened with no problems other than two instances of a plugin that I don't have on my laptop.
The cause appears to be one of the last things I did. I had just re-recorded one small piece of a vocal part at the studio (on Vegas Pro 13) and I was flying that audio clip into my project at home. But I accidentally clicked and dragged the .veg file (that was just above the audio clip I wanted) onto a track, nesting the project within itself. At the time (yesterday), I canceled the operation, dragged the correct audio clip into the track and rendered a reference mp3. Everything seemed fine until today when I had the error described above. It appears that the canceled nesting operation left some loose ends that almost caused me to lose the project.
This is an audio-only project that I had spent a lot of time on. I had done quite a bit of detailed fine tuning that I could never quite reproduce, and I had just gotten approval to consider it done and ready to release.
I tried reopening it several times different ways (e.g. opening another project first then via recent files), but no luck. I also tried copying the file with and without all the source files, but that didn't change anything.
Fortunately, I had just recently loaded Vegas Pro 18 on my laptop. I connected the USB drive with the project folder to my laptop and opened the project. It gave the same error, but also opened the window you get when you drop one Vegas project in another in a nested fashion. I canceled that operation (which took a while), then deleted unused source files from the Project Media list and saved the project. When I moved the drive back to the desktop, the project opened with no problems other than two instances of a plugin that I don't have on my laptop.
The cause appears to be one of the last things I did. I had just re-recorded one small piece of a vocal part at the studio (on Vegas Pro 13) and I was flying that audio clip into my project at home. But I accidentally clicked and dragged the .veg file (that was just above the audio clip I wanted) onto a track, nesting the project within itself. At the time (yesterday), I canceled the operation, dragged the correct audio clip into the track and rendered a reference mp3. Everything seemed fine until today when I had the error described above. It appears that the canceled nesting operation left some loose ends that almost caused me to lose the project.