Where have my clips gone????????

ziggylulu

Member Location: Arnold,Nottingham,UK Joined: Jul 05, 2008 14:40 Messages: 60 Offline

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Jul 26, 2008 16:59

Hi all, I am well on my way to editing some clips together and quite pleased with the results, BUT I'm not sure what I have done because for some reason I have lost a couple of clips and where they were on the video track there are now two blank spaces. All I remember doing was experimenting with the "Take a snapshot button" I wonder if someone could throw some light on my problem so that I dont lose anymore clips.
PS. I did have a couple of copies of the pds file that I was working on and the clips have gone off those video tracks too even though I was working on the original???????

Barry

Senior Member Location: N Attleboro, MA Joined: Jul 13, 2006 19:57 Messages: 295 Offline

Jul 26, 2008 19:26

Clips will vanish if you move or rename the folder that contains them.
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ziggylulu

Member Location: Arnold,Nottingham,UK Joined: Jul 05, 2008 14:40 Messages: 60 Offline

Jul 27, 2008 07:41

Barry,
Only two clips have disapeared from a video track of about 20 clips?

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jul 28, 2008 10:01

Peter, check the address to them - might be they're overly long file/folder names and they've got corrupted when saved (incomplete saved).

If you open up the saved pds file in a text editor like NotePad you might be able to localise whether this is correct.

Please remember to store close to the root directory all files and if you want to save a complete project opt for
File > Export > Pack project materials.

Please note that Barry is correct to warn you NOT to move media files around when editing video - you make trouble for yourself.

Dafydd

Paul

Newbie Joined: Jun 21, 2010 09:58 Messages: 7 Offline

Jun 21, 2010 15:50

I realize that this is an ancient post, but I am having the same problem today using PD8 on Windows 7 64bit. Has anyone found a reliable solution to the disappearing timeline snippet issue?

Just to be clear, these are portions of video in a timeline for which other portions from the same root file still appear in the timeline as they shoud... weird!

EDIT
A very informative thread here:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/10644.page

Though the solution is still elusive... have much to try out tonight when I get home.

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