Fragmenting long projects

Toothdoc wrote on 4/6/2005, 5:07 AM
Hi,
I'm using Vegas 5.0 and plan to build a long project with my holliday footings.
I thought it would be easier to build small parts of my project separately and then merge them all.
I feel I've seen about that in the Vegas manual, but can't find it anymore.
Damned!
Is it possible to do so?
Can I build a final project merging multiple .veg files without rendering every single piece of my work (which, I'm affraid, might lessen the quality of the final clip and consume quit a lot of disk space) and using them as subsets of the final project?

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/6/2005, 5:17 AM
With Vegas 5 you have to open two instances of Vegas and cut and paste all the small projects into one big one. It’s tedious but if you maintain the same track structure in all the projects it can be done. Vegas 6 is scheduled to be announced in two weeks at NAB2005. Perhaps it will have a better way.

~jr
Toothdoc wrote on 4/6/2005, 5:29 AM
Thank you, Johnny.
I'll try this way, but as you said, it's kinda tedious, especially if your track structure is différent in the multiple subprojects.
Let's wait number 6 and expect ...
Grazie wrote on 4/6/2005, 5:31 AM

Oh, one day . . one day . .. we will be able to bring all the veggies to one table - and eat them all at once! One day children . . one day . . . let's hope that day wont be far away . .

( I've really got my hopes up for V6 - aint I?)

Grazie




rs170a wrote on 4/6/2005, 5:52 AM
I've done numerous projects by breaking them up into segments, rendering these out as avis, and then importing back into Vegas for the final render.
The Sony DV codec is very good and you'd be hard pressed to see a quality loss doing it this way.
If a particular segment has a lot of stills, use "Best" mode for the renders.
If you really want to maintain the quality on stills (and can take the drastically increased render time), use the Sony YUV codec instead of the standard avi.

Mike
Chienworks wrote on 4/6/2005, 6:00 AM
Also, if all you do on the final assembly step is import the pieces and render to a new .avi file, there won't be any quality loss at all.
craftech wrote on 4/6/2005, 6:51 AM
This comes up when I am separately editing an Act 1 and an Act 2 of a play or a musical.
What I do is to create a master by playing Act 1 to the master in a DV deck then record/pause the DV deck. Load Act 2 and unpause the deck. Since there is a fade to and from black between the acts it looks seamless. The DV master is used to feed my VHS duplication rack

The advantage of doing it that way is that when I go to make the Mpeg 2 version I can render Act1.veg and Ac2.veg separately for the two DVDs (I don't believe in squeezing more video on a DVD than it was intended for).

John