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*: initial commit and research on the .veg file format
author Paper <paper@tflc.us>
date Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:01:34 -0400
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1 This is a "playground" for reversing the Vegas Pro ".veg" file format.
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3 What I've figured out so far:
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4 - The .veg file format has a Wave64-style RIFF structure.
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5 - Each file has one big "riff" chunk; it contains the GUID of the
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6 "riff" chunk, a 64-bit little endian size, and another GUID
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7 defining what the type of the data is. In fact, this exactly
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8 explains WHY my little 'msvpvf' tool was able to get away with
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9 simply overwriting the bytes at 0x18, since that's the GUID
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10 stating whether it is a .vf or a .veg.
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11 - That one big "riff" chunk contains many sub-chunks, which
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12 contain other data. The first of these sub-chunks is a
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13 chunk containing generic header data, for example project
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14 resample settings. All of the others are "list" chunks,
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15 which follow the same format as the "riff" chunk.
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16 - The GUIDs seem to be totally random besides the "riff" and
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17 "list" chunks.
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18 - Any and all strings are stored as UTF-16 little endian
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19 (Windows NT style).