Help!

[sweetiejen.livejournal.com]

I have a problem.

I have about 20 seconds left of the video I was working on, so I open the project... and it's gone. The time line is all empty and screwed up. I use Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8.0. I took a screen cap of the project. The project itself is gone, the audio/video tracks on the left are gone, everything is gone (except the project media for some reason).

It can't just be gone, right?! There has to be some button to press to get it back. How can it just be gone?

I've googled the problem and can't seem to find anything. I've never seen this before. I mean, how does this even happen?! PLEASE, anyone, if you can help me figure this out, I will give you my first born. Any suggestions/advice? Has anyone had this problem before?

Comments

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Have you tried restoring from the backup file? I have Movie Studio 6.0 but I'm presuming 8.0 works kinda the same. ;) Anyway, you should have a file in the same folder as your original .vf project file that should have the same name but end in .vf.bak. You can either rename it to just .vf and open it in Vegas or you can force it to open by right-clicking it and selecting Vegas as the program to open it with. Then rename it if it opens successfully.

As for why Vegas went screwy looking like that... Hmmm, I'm afraid I don't know about that one. Does Vegas open like that all the time now or just when you're trying to open your project that vanished?

Good luck! I hope you're able to get it all sorted out soon! I know how frustrating that is when things just go wonky for no reason at all! O_O :(

[sweetiejen.livejournal.com]

THIS TOTALLY WORKED. Thank you! You saved my life. :D

This was the first time the timeline has looked like that. So weird! I have no clue how it happened or why.

Thank you again!! ♥

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm so glad that it worked! It's scary when things like that happen, eek! O_O Anyway, you're very welcome! :D ♥!