Here is the problem:
After creating a movie on the timeline with avi files, mp3's and tif pictures, I save the project. The next time I come back to my work everything on the timeline has disappeared.
In detail:
I'm running 6.5 on a rig with XP, MB is ASUS A7N8X, two RAID 0 systems with 2 HD each – one of which is S-ATA, 1GB DDR, AMD 2400+, nVidia Geforce 4 4200/128MB. The footage is original miniDV Quality, I don’t do compressions. When I'm working on the project everything seems to be fine. For safety reasons every once in a while I even copy the project file to another folder. Autosave is set to 10 min. From time to time I render the whole project and play it over - everthing is the way it is supposed to be. After closing the software and reopening the project everything in the timeline has disappeared - the avi files, mp3's and the pictures. Just the sections were preview files were created do still have a green marker in the timeline and you still do see these sequences when running over it with the timeline marker.
All the files in the Bin are labeled "-1" , no matter what. Still if you open any file from the bin you still have the original file there, just the name in the bin has changed. I even tried to rename those files from "-1" to the original file name, hoping that it would recognize the file. But this doesn´t work either.
Now I opened the saved project file, hoping it would be o.k. - No it is also messed up in the same way.
Just lately it has done this to me more often, I work on it and everything is fine. After closing the software and reopening it everything is lost. And now it seems that I have lost my hard work completely.
If please anybody could help me how to get back my work. The file has still the original size of approx. 1,5 MB and the footage is fine as well.
After creating a movie on the timeline with avi files, mp3's and tif pictures, I save the project. The next time I come back to my work everything on the timeline has disappeared.
In detail:
I'm running 6.5 on a rig with XP, MB is ASUS A7N8X, two RAID 0 systems with 2 HD each – one of which is S-ATA, 1GB DDR, AMD 2400+, nVidia Geforce 4 4200/128MB. The footage is original miniDV Quality, I don’t do compressions. When I'm working on the project everything seems to be fine. For safety reasons every once in a while I even copy the project file to another folder. Autosave is set to 10 min. From time to time I render the whole project and play it over - everthing is the way it is supposed to be. After closing the software and reopening the project everything in the timeline has disappeared - the avi files, mp3's and the pictures. Just the sections were preview files were created do still have a green marker in the timeline and you still do see these sequences when running over it with the timeline marker.
All the files in the Bin are labeled "-1" , no matter what. Still if you open any file from the bin you still have the original file there, just the name in the bin has changed. I even tried to rename those files from "-1" to the original file name, hoping that it would recognize the file. But this doesn´t work either.
Now I opened the saved project file, hoping it would be o.k. - No it is also messed up in the same way.
Just lately it has done this to me more often, I work on it and everything is fine. After closing the software and reopening it everything is lost. And now it seems that I have lost my hard work completely.
If please anybody could help me how to get back my work. The file has still the original size of approx. 1,5 MB and the footage is fine as well.