This function must be selected before adding the events to the timeline:

Afterwards you need a script, as jetdv said.

But if he's importing from an XML, either the XML would need to be adjusted before importing or he'll need a script. Take a look at this tutorial. It's not exactly this task but does show how to go through events on the timeline and even how to move events.

But if he's importing from an XML, either the XML would need to be adjusted before importing or he'll need a script. Take a look at this tutorial. It's not exactly this task but does show how to go through events on the timeline and even how to move events.

 

Exactly! It sounds like the only way to do this would be with a script. And I have no idea how to do it. Hopefully it's easy especially with the tutorial. But I would essentially have to move the second video clip 3 seconds to the left into the first video clip to create a Crossfade. That would make the third video clip 6 seconds away. And the next video clip would be 9 seconds away and so on. Each time I move a video to the left it's going to be a bigger time that the video on the right has to move. So hopefully a script can somehow accomplish this without being super complicated

Activating "auto-ripple" before starting moving events solves this.

Activating "auto-ripple" before starting moving events solves this.

Can you explain that in a little more detail? I'm interested to hear it

Activating "auto-ripple" before starting moving events solves this.

Can you explain that in a little more detail? I'm interested to hear it

Another option (when "auto ripple" is de-activeted), press F after each move, gap will be closed.

But "auto ripple" will not "overlap all events. The tutorial I posted shows how to go through events on the timeline and even shows how to move events. Instead of moving them using "event.end", you would use event.end minus the timecode length you wanted them to overlap and you would just use the "foreach" method to go through them forward.

Without knowing how you want to determine which events get overlapped, this will assume you want ALL events on the FIRST track overlapped by 15 frames. You can adjust from there.

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;

namespace Test_Script
{
    public class Class1
    {
        public Vegas myVegas;

        public void Main(Vegas vegas)
        {
            myVegas = vegas;

            Track myTrack = myVegas.Project.Tracks[0];
            {
                bool isfirst = true;
                Timecode PrevEnd = new Timecode(0);
                foreach (TrackEvent evnt in myTrack.Events)
                {
                    if (!isfirst)
                    {
                        evnt.Start = PrevEnd - Timecode.FromFrames(15);
                    }
                    PrevEnd = evnt.End;
                    isfirst = false;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Test_Script.Class1 test = new Test_Script.Class1();
        test.Main(vegas);
    }
}

Just copy that text into notepad and save as "OverlapEvents.cs" in [My Documents]\Vegas Script Menu

Then adjust the script to figure out which events you really want to adjust and change the amount of overlap. What you're wanting to do is really not that complicated script-wise.

But I would essentially have to move the second video clip 3 seconds to the left into the first video clip to create a Crossfade. That would make the third video clip 6 seconds away. And the next video clip would be 9 seconds away and so on. Each time I move a video to the left it's going to be a bigger time that the video on the right has to move. So hopefully a script can somehow accomplish this without being super complicated

Auto ripple indeed doesn't create overlaps but it prevents creating the gaps when doing above scenario.

But I would essentially have to move the second video clip 3 seconds to the left into the first video clip to create a Crossfade. That would make the third video clip 6 seconds away. And the next video clip would be 9 seconds away and so on. Each time I move a video to the left it's going to be a bigger time that the video on the right has to move. So hopefully a script can somehow accomplish this without being super complicated

Auto ripple indeed doesn't create overlaps but it prevents creating the gaps when doing above scenario.

That's a good point but I'm needing it to cross fade them automatically which is why I'm wanting to move them

You can hope that each time @jetdv is so kind to write a script for an unusual scenario like this or you can buy for example https://vegasaur.com/Vegasaur and achieve such repeating tasks (and a lot more) with just one mouse click.