best approach for hooking chunks of vegs together?

Jeff Waters wrote on 4/2/2005, 7:05 PM
Hi All,
Thanks to futz and johnmeyer for helping with my question on creating a timer!

Now, I'm creating a fitness video consisting of 2 minute routines with 1 minute breaks in between.

I'd like to create a library of the 2 minute segments to organize later in any order we wish.

Each 2 minute section has the timer on it along with some titleling. Also applying basically the same fx (including compressor and noise filter) to tge audio of each... though the audio fx settings will have to be tweaked slightly differently for each.

Once I get the perfect settings, I'd like to either render that 2 minute segment out or in some way reference pull the completed work into an overall Vegas instance with all the others so I can easily slide those composite works around in the timeline as single entities to organize...

Clear as mud?

Thanks for any advice!
Jeff

Clear as mud?

Comments

Jameson_Prod wrote on 4/2/2005, 7:18 PM
Not sure exactly what you want when you finish but here are two suggestions:

1. Render the completed 2 minute segment out as an AVI. Then bring each segment AVI back into Vegas for the full project.

2. You can open mulitple instances of Vegas. Simply copy from one instance and paste in the second. Have an instance with the 2 minute routine and copy to the instance with the full project.

Good luck.
Jeff Waters wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:20 AM
Thanks! Basically, I'd like a big collection of these 2 minute "finished" clips (ie, individually optimized sound and some custom titleing) that I can drag into a bigger project. I like your first suggestion because it would seem easier to work with the completed clip rather than try to drag all tracks and fx from each into a larger compilation.

However, will I pay a quality penalty in terms of rendering the clips twice? What would be the best settings to render to?
Thanks,
Jeff
BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 8:36 AM
As long as you render out with one of the DV templates any quality loss will be negligible, if any at all, so not a problem. The only caution would be to leave all the source files for the various parts of the project in their original folders. Don't shuffle the source files around rename them or anything like that or Vegas will have to search for them. If you have a large system will files scattered all over the place, that can get to be a nusiance. Use either the NTSC or PAL DV template, leave the default settings as they are. Once you have all the 2 minute clips done, start a new project, drop them on the timeline as you wish and make your final renders.