How to use what has already been done in a new project?

Nikolay-Serov wrote on 11/25/2023, 10:27 AM

After some updates and upgrades, old projects, completed before, are OK, but one new, created in the middle of the updates/upgrades process, is not rendered. I believe the problem is in the project itself. Just saving it under a new name doesn't help. I think I need to create a new project. How can I transfer into it as much as possible step by step what has already been done in the old one? Old project is Vegas 18, I want the new to be Vegas 21.

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j-v wrote on 11/25/2023, 10:33 AM

1. You can open both projects and use copy>>> past.
2. Also possible to open the old project in Vegas 21 when both versions has the same extra's

Nikolay-Serov wrote on 11/25/2023, 10:44 AM

Do I need to import media files to the new project? Or just copy and paste events?

j-v wrote on 11/25/2023, 11:17 AM

Copy and paste events or complete tracks with events

john_dennis wrote on 11/25/2023, 11:49 AM

Have you tried just dragging the old Vegas 18 project file to the timeline of a new Vegas 21 project?

Nikolay-Serov wrote on 11/25/2023, 12:00 PM

No - I was not aware that this works. I will try it first.

john_dennis wrote on 11/26/2023, 9:04 AM

If your project is, in fact, corrupt, it may not fix your problem, but, the concept works! It's called "nesting". When you add a .veg file to the timeline of a new project, the resulting video and audio appears as a completed version of the source project as if it was rendered to a lossless intermediate file.

Nikolay-Serov wrote on 11/26/2023, 9:43 PM

Thanks to respectful community for the answers. First of all - yes you can copy and paste all events from one project to another - it works - but running two instances of Vegas PRO 21 on 32GB memory machine makes the process very slowly. My problem was solved very simple. After my updates/upgrades I just need to start rendering process when HDR in preview window is OFF. Not in every case - but for this particular project - may be also in others. Which, of course, is not a big deal because during rendering in the preview window the video not in HDR mode. Side result is that now I know that on my projects Vegas 21 has rendering performance greater on 15% than Vegas 18.