Videowave Productions Have Lost Edits

[sab]

I just replaced my RMC7 with RMC10, (thinking it would resolve some glitches I was having.) Now the dsms production I had halfway completed will open up in 10, but all of the editing I had done appears to be lost. Specifically 'moving picture' on stills, native audio on all video clips is back, and all text is gone. Anything I can do without redoing the entire project? sb

[grandpabruce]

I just replaced my RMC7 with RMC10, (thinking it would resolve some glitches I was having.) Now the dsms production I had halfway completed will open up in 10, but all of the editing I had done appears to be lost. Specifically 'moving picture' on stills, native audio on all video clips is back, and all text is gone. Anything I can do without redoing the entire project? sb

 

Install EMC 7, and finish the project there.

 

I have EMC 7.5, 9, and 10 on my computer. They reside together quite nicely.

[malatekid]

Unfortunately, EMC 10 is not fully backward compatible with older versions (in your case version 7). Once you open up a version 7 prodcution in version 10, it is not guaranteed to work especially if you have a lot of edits (overlays, effects, transitions, text, etc). Sorry.

 

We always advise any user to finish any production or project he/she has done in the same version he/she created them before switching to a newer version.

 

Any chance you made a backup of the version 7 production? If so and you still have the version 7 installed on your PC then finish that production/project first with that version.

 

Edit: Just saw grandpabruce's post after finishing my post.

[sab]

Do they all live in the same Roxio program folder? sb

 

Unfortunately, EMC 10 is not fully backward compatible with older versions (in your case version 7). Once you open up a version 7 prodcution in version 10, it is not guaranteed to work especially if you have a lot of edits (overlays, effects, transitions, text, etc). Sorry.

 

We always advise any user to finish any production or project he/she has done in the same version he/she created them before switching to a newer version.

 

Any chance you made a backup of the version 7 production? If so and you still have the version 7 installed on your PC then finish that production/project first with that version.

 

Edit: Just saw grandpabruce's post after finishing my post.

 

[sab]

I can reinstall 7 and finish the project, but the reason I upgraded is because I could see I was going to have problems burning to dvd. (I don't recall what the error was at this moment.) If I finish in 7, can I burn it in 10? sb

[ggrussell]

Yes, Complete your edit. OUTPUT TO FILE (looks like a film reel) and choose MPEG for DVD. Then use that MPEG file in MyDVD 10 to burn a disc.

[bimicher]

Unfortunately, EMC 10 is not fully backward compatible with older versions (in your case version 7). Once you open up a version 7 prodcution in version 10, it is not guaranteed to work especially if you have a lot of edits (overlays, effects, transitions, text, etc). Sorry.

 

We always advise any user to finish any production or project he/she has done in the same version he/she created them before switching to a newer version.

 

Any chance you made a backup of the version 7 production? If so and you still have the version 7 installed on your PC then finish that production/project first with that version.

 

Edit: Just saw grandpabruce's post after finishing my post.

 

If you open a EMC 7 project in EMC 10 and save the project from EMC 10 to the same filename, I believe you will no longer be able to open the project in EMC 7. EMC 10 saves the project to 2 files: a dmsm file and the dat file.

[grandpabruce]

Do they all live in the same Roxio program folder? sb

 

They are all in the Roxio folder, in Program Files, but I made sure that they were placed in separate sub-folders. EMC 7 does it automatically, but for versions 9 and 10, I made a separate folder for each, and did the Custom Install, so I could tell Roxio where to install.

 

 

[malatekid]

If you open a EMC 7 project in EMC 10 and save the project from EMC 10 to the same filename, I believe you will no longer be able to open the project in EMC 7. EMC 10 saves the project to 2 files: a dmsm file and the dat file.

 

I remember that happening when an EMC 7.5 production was opened unintentionally in EMC 9. The file became unusable. I hope that future EMC version put a warning that a different version created the production/project and a caveat that it may not open properly, then ask user if they want to proceed opening the file.

 

Anyway, I referred to a backup version in my post above as a fallback.