Thanks John.
Seems simple enough.
Is this a feature you would use to edit and pre-render smaller segments of a large project?
Then one could assemble those smaller sections on a master timeline.
Am I getting it?

Thats exactly one of the great uses. You can create chapters in smaller timelines, and then use other vegs for chapter breaks. Basically building packages for a longer presentation.

One big advantage is if you construct an opening sequence with say 20 tracks of video, this can sit in its own project but be represented by a single event in the main project, so you don't have to have 20 tracks sitting there unused for the rest of the project. Any changes in the Title sequence, once Saved, flow straight through to the nested veg.

... and simply right click the nested timeline and Vegas automatically reopens it - in it's own window.

Fix the segment - save - and it's "all better" in the final version (i.e. the one with the nested track.

This also works if you prerender your tracks and indicate that you want to save the "original edit" tracking.

This is the way I always have worked - cut little sections, render, and import into larger pieces - but with this new verison of Vegas - it is so SWEET..

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I love nested timelines. Always wanted Vegas to do something like this.

One curiosity: Does anyone know why Vegas turns a mono track on a project into stereo when I drag the project into a nested timeline?

I use it to create project in small segments, and then render the result to one big MPEG-2 and AC-3 file. DVDA creates much more compatible DVDs when you import a single MPEG-2 file than if you render each segment of your project to a separate MPEG and then import all these smaller files (you end up with a multiple titleset DVD, which some players have problems navigating).

btw - nested timeliners - have I missed some important button.

I can't seem to open any of the Medai Manager files directly into the trimmer (have tried Right Clicking and don't see the option.

Have I missed something, or is this a suitable request for the next big update? I sure miss the convenience of directly opening clips from this database.

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Vic - me too. I'd like to go from MM to Trimmer. This would make MM a real boon for me. I can Preview from MM; I can search and save search criteria (?); I can get a Thumbnail of all sizes but . . once I've found & selected the media I have to go via Timeline to get this piece to Trimmer. So, we have Explorer that allows us to "hunt" for Media and use Preview and plop into Trimmer but doesn't have a Thumbnail - Windoze Explorer does - and now I have an advance way of Previewing and showing thumbnails in MM but can't send to Trimmer? Eh, why?

Vegas Explorer - Searching WITHOUT thumbnails but DIRECT ACCESS to Trimmer

Media Manager - Thumbnails, complex search facilities with NO DIRECT Trimmer access

There HAS to be a real logical reason for this - yes?

. .. oh still have to go via Timeline to get same media to Trimmer

OR! ! ! ! !

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=401350

What I do is DRAG the "found" media to Trimmer OR Trimmer Tab!

Vic, I stumbled on this one - hah!

But yes - there is no Menu or Button, that I've found that does this "Send to Trimmer"

Hope this helps,

Grazie


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