When I select a drive/main folder to add to the Import tab several files and folders do not show up. I can drag files into the timeline from Windows explorer but I want to preview them in the Preview Monitor, which is what I paid extra for. Is this a bug? I can't find anything on this site to solve this. Pro X15 21.0.1.198 .
Yes - thanks ray. Performance is not an issue with this version. 16GB memory with 3GB Graphics.
I''l send the screen shots next -
I cannot get to them. If you look at the Explore pic you will see several folders that are not listed on VP.
If the actual video files they are lost or deleted then the program does not have them to hand to use.
MVP and BAK0.MV files contain no video content. Look at the size of them, there is not enough data in each file to produce a good quality single still image let alone a video. They are purely instruction sets to tell the program 'this video file goes there and that video file follows but put a crossover fade of this duration at this point, etc'.
I hope you find the video files and have not deleted them or you will have lost all your video footage.
Ray.
The video files are in directories that VP does not see. That's the point. I can drag and drop them form Expoler which is what I had to do. I can't use VP to preview and do the cuts before dragging to the timeline.
the drive is a USB disk that can be unplugged. I understand that if it is unplugged that VP can't see them. Also I understand that the design of VP is to point to the video files not actual work on them directly - non-destructive.
read on the drive is 130MB/s
All ready tried that - reset , reboot, turn system off and on etc. - it is weird.
Same items - non of the other directories.
Hi.
The read speed of 130MBs a second is extremely slow for an external drive. Normally I would expect around 625 MB/s from an external SATA drive or faster from an external SSD. Is it a thumb drive or a memory stick of some kind? In which case the files may not be being read fast enough by the program.
Ray.
Ray, I never seen anything like those speeds for any external drive I have, including an E-Sata, straight to a MB sata socket (not a USB 3). Even an internal transfer would be battling to achieve those speeds.
In any case, why would a drive read speed affect a static display such as a file explorer? It wouldn't matter how look it took to read the folder, it would eventually display the folder contents.
Hi Al.
@bvolbeda wants to preview the files in the preview monitor. That requires a certain read speed. Just as it's not really possible to use One Drive from the cloud to do this a slow data transfer from something like an SD card / thumb drive, may not be possible as they tend to slow down from their top read speeds during use of larger files. They also don't mention whether or not files from an internal drive can be viewed or not.
I never use external drives for projects as once more than a few tracks are in play at once it doesn't help for a smooth playback experience. Also external drives for use should in my opinion be connected to either USB 3 or USB C ports. Some modern video files have quite a high Mb/s content. We have no idea of the types of files in use or their sizes at this point.
Ray.
wants to preview the files in the preview monitor.
Ray, I don't see that as the issue, the issue is that there are files missing/not showing at all in that folder. As you can see, there's an MVP in that folder in Windows Explorer but it isn't showing in the same folder in the media pool. At the very least, that MVP should show up.
Hi Al.
OK, point taken. But then maybe it is a memory problem. @bvolbeda complained in another topic that VPX 13 was freezing. bvolbeda at that point published their system spec as being
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz
6.0 GB (presumably ram as it's not mentioned)
Windows 10 Home
2- Samsung SSDs
If that system has not changed then it is possible the program is running out of ram. The specs page for VPX 15.
Just firing up VPX 14 on my machine uses over 8GBs of ram along with the operating system.
Also is there enough free space on the C: drive for VPX to operate freely?
Ray.
I may try to export they files to another drive. I'll let you all know.
It looks like it may be a problem on an exFAT formatted drive. I copied everything over to another drive and it now sees the entire file structure and files. This drive is NTFS. Why would that be a problem?
Hi
. . . exFAT drive . . .
This disk format is not always recognised by Windows, especially when the drive has been formatted using a MAC or has been previously plugged into a MAC.
For best performance with Windows the drives, internal and external, should be formatted as NTFS, the exception being memory sticks (thumb drives) which for universal use should be formatted FAT32.
John EB
Forum Moderator
If my computer (and others) recognize the drive it should be readable by VPX - did you read the entire thread?