Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. at DVinfo.net

Chris Hewitt · August 15th, 2013, 03:00 PM

I've just finished editing a project (Wedding Highlights) and the song, which I had cut up into sections, but all still on the same track, has gone awol.

The seperate events still know what the source song is when I click properties but each event event window is empty.

What I can tell you is when I noticed this, the song itself was missing from the bin which I have now put back in. I must have removed the source from the bin and then saved the project as Vegas didn't prompt me for a missing asset when I reopened the project.

Can anyone tell me how to get it back without having to redo all the cuts again (it took me four hours of painstaking work)? This has to be finished by the morning.

Thanks for any hekp you guys can offer!

Rainer Listing · August 15th, 2013, 05:40 PM

Could this be as simple as clicking the little "Refresh View" button? Probably not, but thought I'd offer, just in case..

Paul R Johnson · August 17th, 2013, 12:09 PM

Can't you just ingest that section again and re-sync it?

Chris Hewitt · August 17th, 2013, 01:25 PM

Rainer, no luck there...Paul, the music was cut and sliced working to a tempo so that's where the four hours of work came in. As far as Vegas was concerned, that song was lots of seperate events and not in sequence compared to the original song. I really have no idea why Vegas could not refill thosse events with the single source. Vegas knew what the source was, it knew the in and out tc so it's a mystery.
I've been using Vegas since it was SF , version 2 I think, as an audio multitracker and thought I knew it inside out.....
In the end, I bit the bullet and did it again. Three hours forty this time.

Christopher Young · August 18th, 2013, 03:39 AM

Quite often you can go to your designated Vegas TEMP folder and hunt for VEG.BAK files of your project going back to around the time when the issue happened. When found and by renaming them to <filename>.veg you can open them up as normal project files and very often recover what you have lost.

Worth a try for future reference.

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

Duane Adam · August 19th, 2013, 06:36 PM

As long as the original track is put back in the same file location and has the same name, the directories should work again.

August 15th, 2013, 03:00 PM	#1
Chris Hewitt Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Broadstairs,Kent, England Posts: 225	Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. I've just finished editing a project (Wedding Highlights) and the song, which I had cut up into sections, but all still on the same track, has gone awol. The seperate events still know what the source song is when I click properties but each event event window is empty. What I can tell you is when I noticed this, the song itself was missing from the bin which I have now put back in. I must have removed the source from the bin and then saved the project as Vegas didn't prompt me for a missing asset when I reopened the project. Can anyone tell me how to get it back without having to redo all the cuts again (it took me four hours of painstaking work)? This has to be finished by the morning. Thanks for any hekp you guys can offer!

August 15th, 2013, 05:40 PM	#2
Rainer Listing Major Player Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Nowra, Australia Posts: 440	Re: Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. Could this be as simple as clicking the little "Refresh View" button? Probably not, but thought I'd offer, just in case..

August 17th, 2013, 12:09 PM	#3
Paul R Johnson Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Lowestoft - UK Posts: 4,045	Re: Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. Can't you just ingest that section again and re-sync it?

August 17th, 2013, 01:25 PM	#4
Chris Hewitt Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Broadstairs,Kent, England Posts: 225	Re: Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. Rainer, no luck there...Paul, the music was cut and sliced working to a tempo so that's where the four hours of work came in. As far as Vegas was concerned, that song was lots of seperate events and not in sequence compared to the original song. I really have no idea why Vegas could not refill thosse events with the single source. Vegas knew what the source was, it knew the in and out tc so it's a mystery. I've been using Vegas since it was SF , version 2 I think, as an audio multitracker and thought I knew it inside out..... In the end, I bit the bullet and did it again. Three hours forty this time.

August 18th, 2013, 03:39 AM	#5
Christopher Young Trustee Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 1,567	Re: Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. Quite often you can go to your designated Vegas TEMP folder and hunt for VEG.BAK files of your project going back to around the time when the issue happened. When found and by renaming them to <filename>.veg you can open them up as normal project files and very often recover what you have lost. Worth a try for future reference. Chris Young CYV Productions Sydney

August 19th, 2013, 06:36 PM	#6
Duane Adam Major Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Gilroy, CA Posts: 398	Re: Missing audio event, I'm in big trouble. As long as the original track is put back in the same file location and has the same name, the directories should work again.