Switching Computers in Post

Eon42

Eon42

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I'm editing an 100 minute feature-length film (About 250GB of 24PA video) with Vegas 6.0. I store all my native video on a 300GB Maxtor external harddrive and edit real-time via it's firewire interface. My only problem is, I'm ready to throw my computer (Specs: P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM) off a cliff. lol, It has seen better days (Shouldn't have bought from a shifty liquidator) That said - I've tried plugging my harddrive (Which includes all video and veg files) into a separate computer (Also running Vegas 6.0) And while I can open the veg files, I only get the audio and not the video. I've tried specifying new file locations and everything, and no luck! Am I missing something here? I apologize if this question sounds ridiculous. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

- I
 
There shouldn't be a problem, unless your footage is DIVX or something, and you don't have proper codec(s) installed on the separate computer.
 
That could be the issue right there. Thanks David!

* I'm going into film school, Macs and FCP seem to be all the rage and I still to this day shake my head. Why doesn't Vegas get the credit it deserves? Thats a whole different topic of discussion entirely, I'll stop ranting. lol
 
I tried matching up the codecs on the separate machine, and still no luck..

I can still edit within my separate 20 minute intervals, but when I load all my veg files into the same timeline - my computer locks up. I suppose what I could do is finish each interval, render them AVI uncompressed, and transfer them to the other computer that way.

If only it were as easy as I had hoped. Vegas still kicks ass though, regardless of how outdated my computer is, lol

- I
 
If the full project works on your first computer, there's no reason why it shouldn't on your second computer. This isn't a Vegas problem.

There may some Windows configuration issues at play here.
 
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