Collecting sub projects together for editing.

dongle99 wrote on 3/1/2015, 5:01 AM
I have several sub projects which exist as edited movie studio files. I would like to join them together into one file so I can still edit them, if required, before rendering finally. I could have added all the clips together at the beginning but I wanted to manage them as smaller units as described. I do not want to render them as once rendered editing in detail is no longer possible.

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Chienworks wrote on 3/1/2015, 7:46 AM
Open up Vegas twice. Load your first project into one of them, highlight everything, copy, and paste into the other one. Now open up your second project in the first Vegas, highlight everything, copy, and paste into the other one after the end of the first. Continue until all are done.

Some problems you may still have to deal with:

- This doesn't copy track settings such as opacity, volume, pan, compositing, track-level effects, track motion, etc. so you may still have to set up these things in the new project. If these settings are mostly the same for all the sub projects then you could start by pasting the second one into the first one, rather than into a new project. That way at least you'd preserve the track settings from the first project.

- When Vegas pastes it may end up putting new tracks within existing tracks inappropriately. It will merely start from the top and fill in the next lower audio & video tracks as necessary. Because of the first problem, you may end up with some events on a track that need different track settings or compositing than other events on that track. You may need to rearrange what's on which track after pasting.

Good luck!
dongle99 wrote on 3/3/2015, 9:01 AM
Thank you so much for this advice. The warnings about tracks etc does not worry me at this stage as I haven't reached that level of expertise. I am amazed that it works and haven't quite worked out how everything gets pasted into one - perhaps it doesn't matter that I remain ignorant.

Appreciate your help greatly.
Chienworks wrote on 3/3/2015, 2:31 PM
Vegas is pretty smart about pasting.
Glad it worked out for you!