Narration disappeared

[John]

VSX4 had a seizure and stopped working. When I contacted a Corel technician he said to uninstall a reinstall the program, which I did and it is working again, but I find all the narration on the first half of the project has disappeared. You can see where it was, but there is nothing there. Why only half the narration disappeared and not the whole lot has got me beat. Is it possible that the missing narration clips are somewhere on the computer and can be retrieved, or are they lost and gone into the great blue yonder and I will have to lay them again? John.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi John

When you say narration do you mean sound files.
Yes the crash would have affected the editing but, the actual files should have been saved to your hard drive.

If you have used Voice Over then the files would have been saved to the “Working Folder”, having a name similar as uvs110405-001.WAV

[Black Lab]

Unless it crashed as you were recording the narration. Then it may be gone.

[Reste Corel NA]

Hi John

The moment when the program crashed, the next time you open the program, it should prompt you to re-open the recovered project that you are working on. Before you reinstall the program, you should have opened it and save your project file first.

And I agree with Blacklab, it may be gone but last thing that you can do is to use a utility to recover it using a recovery tool.

Regards,

Reste

[John]

Thanks Trevor, Jeff and Reste. It was only the voice-over that disappeared and then only that in the first half of the project, all the rest of the sound tracks are fine. I had completed laying all the voice-over clips and had almost finished the whole project and was just going through it doing a bit of fine-tuning when the crash occurred. When I first started up the program again, I did re-open the recovered project as instructed and it was then that I discovered the missing voice-over clips. From what you say it doesn't look very hopeful for any recovery of those missing voice-over clips, but thanks everyone for your help. John.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi John

If you have successfully completed the sound clips and they were in the timeline then the actual clips would be on the hard drive. (Working Folder)
Crashes of Video Studio should not affect these files.

Now this sounds daft, but I have done it………You haven’t by any chance saved the project a few times with similar names? Then opened an earlier version

When you open the recovered project it opens without a name, (untitled) you then Save As giving it a name.
However the original project file still exists, you should also be able to open this project

[John]

Thanks Trevor. I have always saved my project under the same name. I have never been able to find the working folder was, or where VSX4 was continually saving my project to, so I created a folder that I could keep track of and before I shut the project down each tine, I saved it to that folder, as well as to an external hard drive as a back-up. Each time when VSX4 reopened the project for me to work on, it opened it from where ever it was saving it. When It seemed that my missing voice-over tracks were permanently lost, I went ahead and relaid them. John.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Video Studio uses the working folder to store some files it creates.
A “Snapshot” will be created as an image saved to the working folder
“Voice Over’s” are also saved there.

The “Capture Folder” is the same beast as the “Working Folder”

Where is it

Go to (F6) Preferences-General Tab – Working Folder
Make a note of its location and view it using Windows Explorer.

I change this location to the folder I created for my project.

Capture FolderIs the same folder as the working folder
Go to Capture Tab-Capture Capture Folder

Not to complicate things but there is another Working Folder associated with the Burner Module.

[John]

Thanks very much Trevor, that's a big help. By the end of another project I should be getting the hank of this, as long as the program behaves itself. John.