Exporting EDL from Vegas to Premiere Pro

Jeff_G wrote on 10/7/2017, 10:18 AM

I am a proud user of Vegas Pro since version 9. However, many of my colleagues are in Final Cut X or more popularly Adobe Premiere Pro (I also own). I love Vegas workflow and have had a hard time leaving it. My question: Is there a perfect or near perfect way to export a project from Vegas (13, 14 or 15) to Premiere for my colleagues to take over when necessary? If so...do you know of a video tutorial or literature on the subject? Anyone had success with this?

Thanks for your help!

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NickHope wrote on 10/7/2017, 11:40 AM

You have File > Export > Premiere/After Effects (*.prproj)

I have no idea how successfully this is working currently.

NickHope wrote on 10/7/2017, 11:43 AM

Some links:

Jeff_G wrote on 10/7/2017, 1:51 PM

Thanks Nick.... I checked out your links and sent a message to one of the commentors that may know something about it. Again, I appreciate your responding!

 

Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/9/2017, 4:21 PM

@Jeff_G @NickHope - I have alot of experience exporting to Premiere Pro -

  1. The things to remember is save your primary Vegas project as a duplicate new Vegas project file first. Remove any Vegas specific titles, or plugins like Neat Video, etc from all clips beforehand.
  2. At that point export the Vegas project out to a PPro project file.
  3. Once in PPro, import/open the project. What you'll find is that your initial screen layout will be not what your default is in PPro - make sure you activate that in your work space options.
  4. Open the sequence. Your Tracks will typically be reversed - ie; your A roll footage will be on the last track. You'll need to rearrange them accordingly.
  5. Secondly - your Video and audio will not be linked - they will be grouped. You'll need to go in and ungroup and then link accordingly each video and audio track.
  6. Once that's been done, create a new sequence in PPro for the project itself.
  7. Copy and paste all the assets from the Vegas Sequence brought into PPro on to the newly created PPro sequence.
  8. If your project has stills - you won't be able to resize them (I still haven't figured out why). What you'll need to do at that point is remove those stills from the project itself and re-import them in. That fixes the ability to resize, move, pan, etc on stills.

Hope this helps - I've had to do this quite a bit so I've learned what does and doesn't work for this process.