Re-naming TAKES causes them to disappear!

intv wrote on 10/16/2016, 9:57 PM

I tracked down what the problem is. Magix did not program this function properly, so hopefully one of your MEP2016 programmers can fix this soon. I goes like this... When you change the name, you are thinking production not computer files. So when you change lets say "Evening News" to, "Evening News Two" you will loose your TAK because
it did not insert .tak after the new name. If when you are renaming a TAK you remember to enter it this way "Evening News Two.tak" ... Then it will work, but thats not the way editors think. The program should automatically add the .tak to the end of what ever the new name is.

Thank you Magix, over-all MEP 2016 is very nice and works very well. Thank you for fixing the way proxy files work. I had asked you to make the creation of proxy files a background function, that would not have you waiting, locked out of editing until the proxy file is completed. You got it right now! Now the proxy file grows at the beginning of the clip and works it way down the line, All the area where the proxy file is rendered plays smoothly, All with out unnecessary waiting. It would be nice if you had a colored line showing you the progress of the proxy file above the clip.

Who do I communicate with to make further suggestions?

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johnebaker wrote on 10/17/2016, 3:49 AM

. . . . So when you change lets say "Evening News" to, "Evening News Two" you will loose your TAK because
it did not insert .tak after the new name . . .

This is not a function error in MEP 2016. This is the way Windows Explorer works if you have turned off the option to Hide known file extemsions. Delete the extension your file is not readable by the associated program.

. . . . The program should automatically add the .tak to the end of what ever the new name is . . . .

This could be probematical as it is Windows that does the renaming not MEP - how would Windows know that you did not want to change the file extension and it could cause a handling problem, eg if you are unable import a VOB to the timeline the first action to take is to change the file extension to MPG which usually works.

My MEP 2016 uses the file extension TK2 not TAK as you can see below

HTH

John EB.