Copy/Paste ALL new (191)clips to the new timeline?

bill-kranz wrote on 9/7/2008, 3:16 AM

Hi Forum users:

I am new to Vegas Pro 8.0b and am working on my second movie.
This movie is a film of my radio whereby I recorded a 60 minute radio show for basic "playback."
I tried to import the video without it breaking up into 191 little clips but could not find this import command. Is their one?
Also is there a way to group import all the 191 clips to the new project at once? Otherwise I will go nuts selecting and dragging all those clips to the new timeline.
I tried searching for a way to do this but could find no clear references even in the Online Manual for this software.

Please help if you can.
Thanks,
Bill

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Chienworks wrote on 9/7/2008, 4:22 AM

Why do you have 191 separate clips? Vegas will not split the video up into separate pieces when opening/importing, so i'm guessing you already have separate clips before trying to import.

If you have multiple clips that you want to place on the timeline all at once, highlight them all in the explorer view, then drag the first one onto the timeline. Vegas will import all of them in the order they were shown in the explorer window all at once.

bill-kranz wrote on 9/7/2008, 6:03 AM

Chienworks:

Greetings and thanks for your reply. It was very helpful as a lead but here's what happened on this end:

I could not find the clips in the Explorere View but did find them in the Media Manager.
With a untitled project open, I held the control key down and manually selected each one in order till all 191 were selected. (I do not know how to group select yet) Then I dragged the first one to the project and all followed, except they were all in reverse order. So, later today I'll start afresh and select from the back upwards. I suspect this will work.

When setting up the camera import I selected import entire tape. I was hoping this would not
split the video up. I'll do more research on that as it did the same thing with my first video.
BTW the film angle, lighting and such did not change for the entire tape. It was on record for the entire 60 minutes. There were NO scene changes.

I have found and unchecked the "Enable DV Scene Detection..." selection which was part of the problem!!

Your advice did help me.

Thanks a bunch,
Bill Kranz

bill-kranz wrote on 9/11/2008, 8:15 PM

Hi. This time I found out how to group select. I did that from the bottom up with the 191 clips, then drug the last one to the new project file. They all folded in but were still in backwards order!! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

How can this be?

So I manually tried it but that turned into a big mess. They were such tiny slivers of files.
There were several blank gaps when done, weird transitions, repeated audio segments that froze up. It is a huge disaster.
So now I'm going to delete all the files and dl the movie again without the darn scene detection on.
That should go a lot better.

So my first 2 movie projects both have had problems. But these are good learning experiences.

However, this is far from easy.

And now I have a .dll makeslideshow FX script installed. But there is no read me file on how to use the darn thing. What gives with that? Any leads there would be great.
Should I contact the creator of the file?

Thanks,
Bill Kranz

darkframe wrote on 9/12/2008, 4:41 AM

Hi Bill,

I've found that when dragging & dropping from the Media Mangar the clips end up in the timeline in the wrong order. That's what happened to you as well obviously. However, dragging & dropping from the Explorer view works for me exactly as described by Chienworks a few posts earlier. So you might try that before having to import the complete footage again.