Concatenate two projects

sqblz wrote on 12/23/2002, 10:30 AM
Maybe this is so obvious that it is just slipping under my chin ... fact is that I looked in the forum and didn't find anything specific as I need.
I have two ready projects, each one about 1-hour long, full of tracks, keyframes, fx, ...
I needed to concatenate these two projects so that I have a single VEG with two-hours. I don't believe that copy/paste will lead me anywhere, because I will not manage to carry all the keyframes, composites, etc.
I understand that, for logical reasons, the properties of both projects must be the same and that the final VEG will have a number of tracks which is the sum of the number of track in VEG1 plus VEG2. And I will have a huge Media Pool ...

But, besides that, how to concatenate ?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Sr_C wrote on 12/23/2002, 10:36 AM
Why not render the two projects separatly, then put the two files together in a new Veg project?
sqblz wrote on 12/23/2002, 10:51 AM
That won't do. I need to keep control in the "big" Veg, so I can make some minor adjustments, re-mix tracks, etc.

I now regret that I didn't start with a single Veg from the beginning ...
Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/23/2002, 7:31 PM
Hi sqblz,

I don't think it should be a total disaster copying one program into a copy (saved-as) of the other...

Sure, a LOT of tracks, and maybe a composite track issue (but that can be rendered and muted).

I might try adding the requisite number of tracks below the copy of the first segment (saved-as), then paste the second segment into the new tracks after the end of the first. (I'm assuming the second segment follows in time, not simultaneously)

Bear in mind the track you click-in prior to pasting will be the top track of the copied events, and generated media will need to be saved as presets and reloaded in the new program. Keyframes might be copied separately.

HTH, MPH
sqblz wrote on 12/23/2002, 7:42 PM
Hi, Marty
Thanks for the tips, useful as always. I will try some of them.
Cheers.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/24/2002, 12:08 AM
> generated media will need to be saved as presets and reloaded in the new program

This one is key. When you cut and paste between veg files, the generated media reverts back to the default preset it was created from. So if you modified Sample Text and cut and pasted and modified some more in your project, and then cut and paste them to a new project, they will all revert back to black and white Sample Text! It is very tedious to bring the generated media over. As Marty suggests, saving each one as a preset and then going back to each one and reloading the proper preset is one option.

~jr
sqblz wrote on 12/24/2002, 5:25 AM
Yeah, thanks.
I don't know how you do it, but I generally end up with one preset of my own in each FX. I call it "Temp" and I use it for copying/pasting/keeping small sequences that I don't want to loose immediately.
Way to go.