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Chienworks wrote on 7/19/2012, 12:43 PM
I've been doing that since Video Factory 1.

I couldn't do it in Video Factory 2 because the ability to run multiple instances simultaneously was removed. But, it was brought back in version 3.

Vegas / Vegas Pro has always had it and it's always worked just fine.
PhillB wrote on 7/19/2012, 1:45 PM
sorry in my excitement I forgot to say and sub clips, which definitely did not work in previous versions, and Sony confirmed only route was via moving in folders.
Gary James wrote on 7/19/2012, 2:17 PM
I've done this, but it only seems to work between two instances of the same version of SVP. I tried to copy from SVP v11 to SVP v9, and it didn't work.
ForumAdmin wrote on 7/19/2012, 2:27 PM
Gary James said: "I've done this, but it only seems to work between two instances of the same version of SVP. I tried to copy from SVP v11 to SVP v9, and it didn't work."

What doesn't work is copying from 64-bit Vegas to 32-bit Vegas or vise-versa. You can copy/paste between different versions, as long as they are the same bitness.

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Gary James wrote on 7/19/2012, 3:23 PM
Aha ... maybe that's what happened! I had 64 bit SVP v11 open as my source, and I may have tried to paste it into 32 bit SVP v9.

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll pay more attention to this next time.
mudsmith wrote on 7/19/2012, 5:58 PM
To reiterate, do you have to have both .veg files open at the same time? I had tried this (in 11) and failed, but perhaps did not have both open at the same time....

And is there a procedure for having both open at the same time? It seems as if one closes always when I open the other.

It is very, very important for me to be able to use this function, so thanks in advance for your info.
vkmast wrote on 7/19/2012, 6:18 PM
mudsmith,
open two instances of Vegas ( two individual windows / sessions).
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=806207
mudsmith wrote on 7/19/2012, 7:25 PM
So you are saying that you actually have to have two instances of the Vegas program itself opened?
PeterDuke wrote on 7/19/2012, 7:34 PM
Yes. You can't close the source instance of Vegas before you do the paste.

My guess is that only pointers are copied to the clipboard, not all the Gigabytes of video.
Chienworks wrote on 7/19/2012, 8:25 PM
Indeed it is just the pointers, just like what's stored in the .veg files. But this still doesn't explain why Vegas clears them from the clipboard when you close the project. Most programs don't, and those that do usually ask you if you want to clear it or not.
Laurence wrote on 7/19/2012, 9:14 PM
I thought you could copy between 64bit versions of Vegas if there were no OFX effects. I'm not sure now, but isn't that (or something like that) the case?