"The problem is that Vegas dumps it's clipboard buffer when you switch to a different project. To get around this, open up two copies of Vegas simultaneously with project A in one and project B in the other. Now you'll be able to copy & paste between them as long as they're both still open."

Thanks very much for this reply. I tried this approach and it worked OK. I would never have thought of doing this!! Is this a program fault do you think? Is there any danger in cutting and pasting between projects in this manner?

Thanks, Fred

I'm not sure if it's a program fault or if it's the designers making the choice that there might potentially be so much data on the clipboard that it could interfere with other programs running when Vegas closes a project. I suppose it would be nice if we were given the choice. Lots of software i use will pop up a dialog box when closing the program or the current file that asks "Retain clipboard data? Yes/No". This is handy because lots of image editing software can accumulate many megabytes of data in the clipboard that you may not need, but sometimes you might want.

There are only a couple of dangers that i can thing of. One is that not everything is copied. Track level settings are generally ignored, but most event level items are copied faithfully. One large exception is the text of text events is lost (or has this been fixed now?). The other danger is that if your track layout differs between the two projects then the result can be rather strange, with Vegas creating new tracks seemingly at random, rather than gracefully figuring out which existing tracks can hold the new pasted information best. This isn't really a problem; it's just a little messy, but you can fix it afterwards if you wish.