Yes this worked!

Thank you Grazie :-)

Jorge

Another way - put all events needing the same FX on a separate track and apply the FX at Track level - i.e. to the Track Header.

Hmmm...this is an intelligent way... Why didn't it occur to me in the first place?

Lack of brains probably :-)

Thanks Peter!

Let's see if I can ask a related question in the same thread...

I often have projects with multiple audio tracks, and want to apply the same plug-ins and settings to every audio TRACK before I begin editing. (I've got predefined baseline settings I always start with.)
I've always done this "by hand" -- applying my plugins to each track as I start each project. Is there a way to assign plug-ins and settings to one audio track and then copy them to all the other audio tracks? I know you can select multiple tracks and give them all a Volume envelope with a single keystroke, but I haven't found any way to assign Audio FX plugins across multiple tracks...

@earthrisers:

You can create the first audio track and add your FX. Then right-click and choose duplicate track[/]. That will give you two tracks with the same FX. Then choose [b]crtl-A to select all tracks. Right-click again and choose duplicate. Repeat as many times as you need tracks.

There is one way to do it. I bet there are more ways to get there.

Regards,

Kimberly

Yes - Vegas always gives you several ways ... you can apply FX to the master track, you can use buses, you can save FX chains, and no doubt more ...

Another easy way is to create a custom Effects Package.

(Look in the manual or help file for "Creating and Using Effects Packages".)

One piece of data that's missing from the help file is that when you make a custom Effects Package, it is saved in the "Filter Packages" folder in the Plug-In Chooser.

I say this again and again, i know, sorry, old age

This forum is FABULOUS. I always get competent help. And quick.

THANKS

Thanks, all, for the suggestions.
Good ideas, but not quite the situation I was trying to describe. I'm not creating blank audio tracks and then importing data into them... I'm setting up the FX for the audio-track portions of already-existing, combined, video&audio files from a multicamera shoot. (The create-&-configure-a-track & then-duplicate-it approach is a good idea for blank tracks, but I'm not looking to duplicate the *content* of the audio tracks I have.)

And indeed, I have created FX packages of my own that I apply to the audio tracks. It's just that I have to apply them to each invidual track, and then also create an "FX automation envelope" in each track, to get to where I want to be when I start editing.
I do use Buses when appropriate -- i.e., when I want to apply the same FX at exactly the same levels to all the tracks in a group of tracks. But I need to be able, for example, to make adjustments over time to the TrackCompressor-Output for each individual track. (Typical situation is shooting a play, where some performers are mic'd and/or project really well, and some are not mic'd and don't talk loud enough for the ambient mics.)
It's not a great big time-consumer, just something I wish there were a shortcut way of doing.
It would be parallel to the function in Adobe Photoshop where with a couple of keystrokes you can copy all the FX you've applied to a layer, and then paste that set of FX into another layer, without duplicating the CONTENT of the original layer.

I will put this into Sony's suggestion-box for future Vegas releases.

If I've understood correctly, why not add the FX you want to a clip - but leave them all at 'reset to none'. Copy & paste, then adjust as necessary?

I have created FX preset packages with "baseline levels" that I always start with. I apply them at track level, as opposed to individual clips. My projects are event-shoots like plays & musicals, where I'm almost always working with full-length timelines from each camera, as opposed to series of individual clips. Working with the FX at track-level also allows me to make fine-tunings along the way by using "FX automation envelopes."
As far as I can tell, there isn't any copy&paste for FX.

Again, no biggie. I just yearn for a quickie track-FX function like Photoshop's "copy & paste layer FX".

As you may already know, you can use any track's settings to specify default settings for new tracks. Customize a track as you like, then right click and choose "Set Default Track Properties". Select the desired settings that will be used when creating a new track and click OK.

Ah, altarvic, what you described sounded like just what I'm looking for.
Alas... I tried it, and it doesn't work. At least, not in Vegas10.

I configured an audio track with the FXs and settings I want, and told Vegas to use those as the defaults. Then I created a new track, and Vegas completely ignored everything I had set.
Also tried saving the project that had my new "defaults" and reopening Vegas and creating a new track in that same project. Same result. My supposed defaults are ignored.
Sigh...

I have tested it in Vegas 10.0e and it worked fine...

Something's tickling my memory that that was a known bug in early releases of version 10.