[peawie]

Is saving a production with a new name, a way of removing or avoiding corruption?

I've have been working with some EMC 7.5 productions in EMC 9 with no problems until today.

My problem is the same problem as a couple of others who have posted somewhere in this forum. A corrupted VideoWave file.

After working for several hours on a production that originated in EMC 7.5, pictures began to go black, so I saved the production and rebooted. When I tried to reopen the file, I received the following error message:

VideoWave was unable to load the specified production. The file might be corrupted or of an incompatible version.

I was using the Pan and Zoom feature and editing music when the trouble started. The production is about 25 minutes long with 6 songs. At the time I brought it into EMC 9, the transitions and durations had been changed on most of the pictures. About 15 pictures were missing and needed to be deleted and re-added.

I have an older version of the same that is not missing any pictures when opened in EMC 9. If I save it with a new name, before adding music, Auto Motion, etc., would it help to avoid corruption later in the production.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[sknis]

Is saving a production with a new name, a way of removing or avoiding corruption?

I've have been working with some EMC 7.5 productions in EMC 9 with no problems until today.

My problem is the same problem as a couple of others who have posted somewhere in this forum. A corrupted VideoWave file.

After working for several hours on a production that originated in EMC 7.5, pictures began to go black, so I saved the production and rebooted. When I tried to reopen the file, I received the following error message:

VideoWave was unable to load the specified production. The file might be corrupted or of an incompatible version.

I was using the Pan and Zoom feature and editing music when the trouble started. The production is about 25 minutes long with 6 songs. At the time I brought it into EMC 9, the transitions and durations had been changed on most of the pictures. About 15 pictures were missing and needed to be deleted and re-added.

I have an older version of the same that is not missing any pictures when opened in EMC 9. If I save it with a new name, before adding music, Auto Motion, etc., would it help to avoid corruption later in the production.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Normally, you can not even open a V7.5 project in V9. If it opened once, you are very lucky.

You have two choices;
1) Re-install V7 and finish that show with that version. Do not install Drag2Disc twice. That causes a real problem. V7 and V9 can be on your computer at the same time. There are major differences on how V7 and V9 handle such things as transitions so the projects are not compatible
2) Start from scratch. Since you did it once, the second time will be easier.

Sorry.

Please post your computer specs in your signature; what video card/chip do you have? Make sure you update the drivers and run the rendering text in Video Wave. If the dot is near software after the test, do not select hardware. That will also cause a problem.

For safety, you should always have two versions of the project you are working on. When you save the production, use the two versions alternating which one you save the production to. That way if the program hiccups, you always have that other version to work with.