Creating a veg file from a region - urgent help pl

Duncan H wrote on 6/4/2014, 8:58 PM
I am in the midst of a longer form project and I've realised that the wise approach is to create smaller, more manageable veg files and then use nested veg's in the final more complex timeline.

I have however, already developed the project significantly, so now I am trying to select sub-regions within my existing timeline project (such as an interview) and save that segment as an independent veg. I realise that I could select region>copy>paste as a new Vegas file, but wondered if there is a simpler way, to just select the region and save as a veg. I've explored menus , regions, right clicking and don't see how to do this (which I assume is probably dead easy!).

Hope this explains things, any help appreciated. Any thoughts from wise colleagues?

Thanks,

Duncan

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set wrote on 6/5/2014, 12:08 AM
I don't have any simpler solution for this situation, but here the alternate way to do:

I will save-as Vegas project to different one, then delete all events outside selected region, then in project media, clear unused media, then save again.
If you have track-level FXs whether it is Video FX or AudioFX, also MediaFXs, these settings still kept.

Vegas project file size is small and easy to move, so make several Vegas backup files didn't hurt.

Hope helps,

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Duncan H wrote on 6/5/2014, 12:57 AM
Thanks Set, that is exactly what I did, but it seemed a bit of a workaround. I thought that there must be a way to select a region and save as a new .veg, but maybe not.

Anyway, appreciate your help, all sorted now, but still interested to know if there is a quicker approach.
altarvic wrote on 6/5/2014, 5:56 AM
No other way to do it in Vegas, only save as...
Vegasaur toolkit has 2 commands to create nested projects from selected tracks and events, but this is a commercial third-party extension.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/5/2014, 6:19 AM
> "I've explored menus , regions, right clicking and don't see how to do this (which I assume is probably dead easy!)... still interested to know if there is a quicker approach."

Create a timeline selection and press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+T. Done!

That will Select All and Trim your entire project down to the selection deleting everything on either side. To close the gap, just turn on Ripple Edit, double-click on the empty timeline space before the events and press Delete to remove the leading gap (or just drag everything to the left with ripple edit turned on).

~jr
Duncan H wrote on 6/5/2014, 5:59 PM
JR,

You're a genius, thank you !

Duncan