Video camera clips disappear

[vjloco]

When I am preparing for a live show with musicians, I like to set up my live video camera clips beforehand. I import the video input to about 9-12 clips and then apply effects, rotation, color etc. to these clips so that I can switch quickly to different "looks". The problem is that once I disconnect the video camera and close the program, all of these clips disappear. This means that the only way to have them ready is to set them up RIGHT BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE every time. This is very frustrating.
Is there any way to make these clips stay in the deck even when the camera is turned off or disconnected?
One possibility would be to have the live video input clips be assigned to a generic video input, and then assign them to whichever live video input is used.

[GeeEs]

I would set up my decks by default using a white/colored/plain PAL size (or any other size you would use for your cam) .jpg file on the clip positions.
Then on location just replace the jpg's with your live feed and you're ready to go.

same like your solution in a way... can't think of any easier solution right now.

[vjloco]

When I try the workaround, while the effects remain, all of the modified clip properties disappear, so it does not work for my purposes.

[edwin]

Did you make sure your camera is connected before loading the composition.
It might happen that it can't find the camera and thus not load it correctly. That's an error from our side but i just want to know why this happens, are you running Windows or OSX and what kind of live feed are you using.

What 'GeeEs' says should work, i just tested this and this sort of workaround should work. If you have a clip setup with effects and drag another file in it (jpg video or livefeed) it only replaces the video source and all effects stay in place.

[vjloco]

I have put my computer specs in my signature now, so you should see them at the bottom of the post.
For video input I am using a DV camera connected by Firewire.

The workaround works for effects, but not for clip properties. Since I do quite a bit of modification to these, when I replace the JPG with the video feed, all the changes to the clip properties disappear.