Thanks for your reply. I'll try the slideshow tool.

Unfortunately,slideshow is only for pictures, not clips...

the lack of a storyboard tool in vegas family is an old sorrow for me.. I bought Vegas pro several years ago, a very fine piece of software indeed but i could not fuction whithout a basic storyboard utility, used for a primary story construction. I moved to Premiere, i didn't really like it, i worked a year or two with this and then I had to move to other fields for some years. I bought today VMS 11 to make some family films and teach my little daughters editing. Guess what : the storyboard is still absent! Despite the fact that is present in almost every editing program now! I thought that there must be a deep aversion in Sony for the SB..and then I visualized the Sony's MovieZ presentation on this site, and a fine SB utility is included in this basic program!! Why the Vegas users are punished?? I don't need MoviEZ, i want to work with Vegas 10, the program I like (i use it since ed. 3.0 and I paid for 4 upgrades since then) and Movie studio. VMS would be unbeatable with a storyboard tool. Am i asking too much??

Windows MovieMaker Live is terrific, if you just want to edit in a basic storyboard interface.

But I think most of us much prefer the power of a professional, timeline-style interface.

ok, but the "basic storyboard interface" is the first level and then i have to continue with all the rest of editing which is not possible with Movie Maker. I cannot open a basic MM project in VMS and besides I want to work in just one program.

i am getting old, i repeat my self... I was writing the same, 8 years ago.. Nothing has changed..

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=272733

I agree with you on this. I have to use the empty space further up the timelines to rearrange clips then shunt them back. It would be a lot easier with a storyboard/work area.

This isn't terribly elegant, but i've done it this way with great success ...

In the media bin (or in explorer view, which is my preference), i rename all the files that are in the first scene with a prefix like 100_, then all the files in the second scene with 200_, and so on. Press F5 to refresh the display and they're grouped by scene. Then i go back and look at the first scene and choose the opening clip and rename it to start with 110_ instead of 100_, then the second clip 120_, and so on. Press F5 again and now each scene has it's clips in order.

I go by tens so that if i change my mind later i've got room to stick something in as 115_ between 110_ and 120_. Use whatever numbering scheme works comfortably for you. If you have more than 10 scenes or 10 clips per scene you might have to use larger numbers, like 01010_, 02030_, and 15145_ and so forth.

Although I left storyboard editing years ago, I understand and appreciate where you are coming from. It is great for putting something together in a snap.

My favorite in those days was Ulead. You could flip back and forth between storyboard and timeline with a mouse click. Had a very decent MPEG-2 encoder as well. I have no idea how it's evolved since being bought by Corel.