Best workflow for gathering clips from many vegs?

TeetimeNC wrote on 4/1/2010, 5:58 AM

I am going to make a demo reel of excerpts from 20 or so different Vegas projects. I've started thinking about the most efficient way to do this and would appreciate your insights.

What I want to do is scrub each veg's timeline and select segments for use in the demo reel, then get those segments into the demo reel veg. I know I could just render each segment out and use the resulting clips to build the demo reel. This is probably the most straight forward way.

But I am also thinking that if there was an easy way to create a veg for each selected segment, I could then just nest those segment vegs in the parent demo reel veg. Anyone know of a process or script that can create a new veg from a timeline selection or region? Or perhaps some other technique I'm not thinking of?

Jerry

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Jøran Toresen wrote on 4/1/2010, 7:00 AM

Maybe you can find an answere reading this thread:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=703228&Replies=10

Jøran

TeetimeNC wrote on 4/1/2010, 8:51 AM

I should have mentioned that thread. Saving regions is a nice technique but it only works for a single clip in the Trimmer. What I need to capture is a segment of of the timeline which may contain multiple tracks, crossfades or cuts between clips, FXs, pan/crop/track motion, etc.

The direct way to do this would be to a create region around each point of interest and render the regions to intermediate clips. The more I think about it this is the only way this is going to work. If anyone can prove me wrong, please do.

Jerry

MarkWWW wrote on 4/1/2010, 12:22 PM

Can you not simply load all the vegs into the Project Media window of a new project, and then use the trimmer to identify the various segments and then add them to the timeline of the new project. No need to render - you are nesting the segments taken from various other vegs into one master veg.

Mark

TeetimeNC wrote on 4/2/2010, 3:28 AM

Mark, sometimes we just can't see the forest for the trees. Your suggestion is perfect. I just tried it and have to wonder, why didn't I think of that?

When I imported muitiple vegs into the Project Media, Vegas generated a sfap0 proxie file for each veg that then let me easily preview each in the trimmer. EXCELLENT solution! Thanks Mark.

Jerry