multiple timelines

rdolishny wrote on 9/22/2019, 3:41 PM

I was a Vegas power user until about v11 but eventually had to go with Premiere. The biggest problem I had nobody really talked about, was not having multiple timelines.

My workflow involved opening multiple instances of Vegas and flipping between these, or one massive timeline broken down into marker chapters.

I haven't checked back in a few years but the v17 demo video looks nice.

Do we have multiple timelines per project yet?

Also, in v11 you had to make an entire track a transfer layer like multiply, screen, overlay, etc. Can you do this on a clip by clip basis?

Those were the two deal-breakers. Thanks.

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j-v wrote on 9/22/2019, 5:08 PM

Do we have multiple timelines per project yet?

Yes see this official Vegas tutorial.
But I don't need the use of that, all those kind of things I manage with nested Vegs, which add to the timeline of a total project can be selected to open in a new Vegas project with that veg loaded, that can be changed if needed.

Former user wrote on 9/22/2019, 5:31 PM

Vegas has always worked with nested projects, but differently and less efficiently than Premiere. This has now improved in Vegas 17, but there are still many limitations.

Here, I use the Vegasaur extension to work with nested projects. With this extension I work with nested projects in Vegas the same way I work in Premiere.

https://vegasaur.com/Vegasaur

lan-mLMC wrote on 9/22/2019, 8:19 PM

The vegas 17's nested timeline is just the same as "File-Open Project". It is not multiple timeline in one interface.

The composite pattern (such as multiply, screen) is still based on entire track. This is less efficient than Premiere.