Insert pictures at the start of a finished project

flyboy320 wrote on 4/30/2004, 7:43 AM
I have finished putting together a project that is made up of several audio and several video components (video is made from still photos). I would like to add a small video clip to the start of the project, but I'm unsure if this can be done. I would have to move the entire timeline (of video and audio) over. I guess I could do this with each individual picture, but this would be a pain in the *ss. So, is there a way to move eveything over so I can insert a clip at the beginning?

Come to think on it, I could render out the project, and then open the rendered file up in Vegas, and insert the clip then, but I may loose some quality since I'm rendering, uncompressing, and re-rendering....

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rextilleon wrote on 4/30/2004, 7:47 AM
Right click on event, click on select events to the end--(make sure they are all grouped) and slide the entire project down to make room for you pics.
Jsnkc wrote on 4/30/2004, 8:25 AM
Or put the cursor where you want to add the video clip. Then go under Insert - Time, then enter the length of the clip you want to insert and it will automatically add that amount of time where the cursor is, then you can just drop your clip on the timeline.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/30/2004, 9:01 AM
Or, place your cursor at the beginning of your project, make sure Ripple Edit is enabled and is set to “All Tracks, Markers, and Regions” and then just drag and drop the new file to the beginning of the timeline. Everything will move to the right automatically.

Or open the new file in the trimmer. Select a subset of it to insert, and press the letter ‘A’ to add it to the timeline and move everything else to the right with ripple edit on.

There are so many ways to accomplish things in Vegas. ;-)

~jr
flyboy320 wrote on 4/30/2004, 10:31 AM
Great...thanks for all the reply's...I knew there must be a way.. :)
stormstereo wrote on 5/1/2004, 8:21 AM
OR, make the timeline the active window, press ctrl+a to select everything and then click+drag to move. Markers will not move with this method.
OR, use the "selection edit tool" to mark everything and then clickdrag. No marker movement here either.
Best/Tommy
farss wrote on 5/1/2004, 8:29 AM
Just one small point, if you render it out and simply add a bit more in anywhere assuming there's only cuts then your previous work isn't rendered, just copied. In any case tests show no noticable loss after 100 generation of rendering.

On long projects I prefer to render bits out and have a master project to bring them all into. Maybe I'm being a bit conservative but it's actually quicker this way. You need to render a section out anyway to see how it'll finally look so why not save that as a new clip and then it'll not need to be rendered again.
swarrine wrote on 5/1/2004, 10:59 AM
One word of caution, Ripple Edit has a bug.

If you have ripple on and you pick up a clip to move to the right on the timeline, you will notice only that one clip moves. When you drop that clip, if it covers a fade or a transition where the clip is dropped, the fade/transition will dissapear and then everything will ripple down the timeline.