User Manual

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5. Select the Copy media with project check box if you want to create copies of each of the project’s media files in the same
location as the project file. This allows you to collect all of a project’s assets in a single location.
6. Click the Save button.
7. If you selected the Copy media with project check box, a dialog is displayed to allow you to specify how you want to copy
media files:
• Select the Copy source media radio button to copy the entire source media files to your project folder.
• Select the Create trimmed copies of source media radio button and enter a value in the Extra head and tail box to
reduce the number and size of media files necessary to represent your project.
Your project will be scanned to determine how much of each media file is being used and those regions will be rendered to
new media files. The amount of time specified in the Extra head and tail setting will be added before and after the media file
to allow subsequent edits. All events are then updated to point to the new files. Finally, inactive takes are removed from the
project, and the project is saved.
Autosaving a project
A backup copy of your project is automatically saved every five minutes. If your system crashes, you are prompted to open the
backup file the next time you start the program.
Backup files are saved in the location specified in the Temporary files folder box on the General tab of the Preferences dialog. Files
are saved with the .autosave.veg extension and are deleted when you close Vegas Pro software.
If you prefer not to autosave your project, you can clear the Enable autosave check box on the General tab of the Preferences
dialog.
Vegas Pro software also creates .veg.bak files in your project folder when you save a project to allow you to return to the project’s
last-saved state. Creation of .veg.bak files is independent of autosaving.
Note: Any project media files from folders outside the project folder are copied to the project folder. Media files that are saved in
folders below the project folder are not copied.
Note: The newly rendered files will match the source files’ properties as closely as possible:
• Audio/video events are saved in a new AVI file. You can trim DV AVI, uncompressed AVI, Sony YUV AVI, and CineForm AVI files.
Because of the lossy nature of other video formats, those video files will not be trimmed, but will simply be copied to the project
folder.
• Audio-only events will be rendered to the Wave format if under 2 GB (or Wave64 if over 2 GB), and DV files will be rendered as DV
AVI files.