merge files

vegas sucks wrote on 12/21/2006, 5:37 PM
I produce a one hour long music program for community access TV. In the studio I post edit using Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut when I have two clips or files that I what to connect or merge into one, all I have to do is select a merge function command. At home I don’t have an Apple, so I can’t use Final Cut. I have Ulead Movie Maker, Nero, windows Movie Maker. I like the look and feel of Vagus, it looks and acts like final Cut. But I can’t merge two files in Vagus. No matter how close I move the files together there is always a gap. During playback the micro long dead space is unacceptable. How can I merge several files into one continuous file. I don’t want to fade, dissolve or use any effects to make it look like the files are connected. I want them connected. I know someone out there knows the answer to this question and I would be most grateful for the help.

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Chienworks wrote on 12/21/2006, 7:05 PM
Enable snapping and quantize to frames. Then you can butt the second file up against the end of the first with no gap or overlap.
vegas sucks wrote on 12/21/2006, 7:18 PM
thanks chienworks
vegas sucks wrote on 12/21/2006, 7:48 PM
Well, that didn't work.
Chienworks wrote on 12/22/2006, 4:04 AM
A little more detail please. What didn't work? What happened when you did it? What do you get other than an instantaneous change from the first video to the next?
vegas sucks wrote on 12/22/2006, 12:02 PM
I enabled both snapping and quantize moved the second file up to the first. I keep zoomed in to see how close I could get and there would always be a gap. During playback there would always be a dead air. I don't want to but the files together. I want them attached. This is a basic function movie editing software. Can Vagas Movie Studio meger two files into one or not.
Tech Diver wrote on 12/23/2006, 7:20 AM
I can't say for certain about Vegas Movie Studio, as I have the full Vegas 7. However, solving your problem should be very easy. Once snapping and quantizing have been set, you need grab the edge of the end of the first clip and move it either to the right or left because it sounds like the first clip ends in between two frames and not on the frame boundary. Then you merely need to slide the second clip to the end of the first.

To answer your specific question, Vegas does not have a "merge" function since sliding a clip is so easy to do.
skinned_knee wrote on 12/24/2006, 9:27 PM
Could the missing piece of this puzzle be that after the 2 clips are butted together on the timeline, you then need to render (make movie) that project to a new clip so that both of those original clips are contained within one video file?

It really should be as simple as putting both clips on the timeline, and butting them together... Maybe you are trying to make it harder than that?
Paul Mead wrote on 12/26/2006, 9:32 AM
Sure sounds like there is a vocabulary mismatch here or something. Putting two clips "together", as in one starts immediately after the last is a basic function of VMS. I just don't understand how they are not butting together. Is this HD by chance?