Problem Saving Projects

[KeithC]

First, the more I get to know VS11+ the more I like it.

Question: Today I trimmed and adjusted the audio on about 20 video clips, saving them as Project Files. At least twice I was unable to open a newly saved file. The .VSP were there, but VS would not open them (no message from program, just nothing happened). For those two clips I needed to re-trim the source files and re-save them as project files.

Does anyone know of a glitch in VS that would cause this, or is there a step in the saving process that I forgot on these two occasions? Is it necessary to click the PROJECT button (the PROJECT/CLIP toggle) in order to save the project file properly. That is the only thing that I can think of.

Thank you,
Keith

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Keith

You save the project by File--Save or File--Save As

The latter allowing you to give it a name and save location.

The *.VSP file (Video Studio Project) is opened in the same manner from File--Open Project (Ctrl+O)

Some, about four of the most recent used projects can be seen at the bottom of the list when you hit ¡¥File¡¦

[KeithC]

Hi Trevor,

That is the process I used for each of the 20 files. However, on two occasions the newly saved VSP file would not open. I'm trying to figure out why that happened. The file was saved, but trying to opening that immediately after creating it resulted in no response from VS.

I can correlate only one thing that gives me a hint that something is different when saving a VSP file. When things were going right with the other 18 file saves, I could delete the saved file from the time line and insert a new video with no intermediate step. However, I knew something was wrong (or different) when I, after saving the VSP file and inserting a new video file, the program asked me if I wanted to save changes made to the previous one. When the other 18 files saved properly, the program never asked me that question.

Does that help to describe the phenomena? The manual doesn't mention it, but is it necessary to put VS into a particular "state" before saving? (by the way, before someone thinks of it, I'm not on a netword and my disc drives are set to Disable Write-Behind Caching)

Thanks,
Keith

[Ron P.]

What I'm reading is that you are saving and not using the Save as to save a new project. That certainly would produce that message.

What may be happening is that VS is saving all your projects to just one file. Are you just clearing the timeline, and then rebuilding another project, without choosing New Project?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Keith

Just a few thoughts:-

When we open a project to edit:-
Any change to the project will require a Save action.
If we do not ¡¥Save¡¦ and try to ¡¥Close the program¡¦, VS will prompt us to ¡¥Save¡¦
If we try to open another project VS will prompt us to ¡¥Save¡¦

Once Saved the project remains open and can be further edited, but would then require a ¡¥Save¡¦ action.

If we save a project and then try to ¡¥open¡¦ the same project there would be no change to the timeline. Although we would see the blue progress bar and the timeline refresh.

Are you saying that from an empty timeline that the project does not open.

When you open a project, check the file / project name located somewhere at the top of the screen. This should indicate the open project.

Have you saved the project twice under different names, the two projects being identical.

And No you do not have to put VS in any special state to save the projects.

[KeithC]

Gentlemen,

You have offered good reminders. They make perfect sense and I'll be very careful in the future. Basically, VS wants me to use NEW PROJECT when starting a new one, do a SAVE AS to name it and place it, then SAVE afterwards. Then, don't DELETE the file, but create a NEW PROJECT again to clear the board.

"When you open a project, check the file / project name located somewhere at the top of the screen. This should indicate the open project." - Trevor Quote

Trevor, you reminded me that often the Project Name at the top of the screen was the "previous" file I was working on and now the open project. I guess that tells us something. Maybe just deleting the clip isn't enough to clear the project.

Thanks,
Keith

[Black Lab]

If you save a project and give it a name you will notice that the name of that vsp now appears at the top left of the screen. If you delete the files from the timeline, the name of the project is still at the top of the screen. Hence, you have not deleted the project, only the files that were on the timeline.

So, either choose New Project or, after deleting the files from the timeline, you will have to remember to do a Save As to save your "new" project.

[Trevor Andrew]

Now i know whats going on????????