Tons of workflow options - If you just want to piece one chunk of a Veg file to another Veg file. Open the first - select all - copy - open the second - put the play bar where you wan't the new chunk to go and hit paste. (you might wan't to have auto ripple on, etc depending...) but you get the idea.

Hope this helps

One nice thing about Vegas is there is no "right" way to do things. Do it the way that's most comfortable for YOU. For example many tasks can be done several ways. Some people use the trimmer for editing scenes. Others rarely or never use it. For speed changes some like to drag the source vid on timeline, others use the velocity envelope, some both.

Its the same with how you go about putting a project together. Some like to make multiple project files, do lots of pre rendering, others rarely if ever do that. There is no right or wrong way.

That said, some suggested things:

1. Save often. Its a computer and darn, Vegas requires Windows. That means anytime, anything can happen with little or no warning. By saving your work often, if something does happen you never suffer any major loss.

2. Don't be afraid to experiment. I feel the best way to learn any complex piece of software, and yes, Vegas is fairly complex, you got to be willing to "mess around" and be a knob twister. See what all the tools and opinions do. While there are are some books, tapes, a newsletter, and many tutorials (written some myself, click on my name) nothing beats DOING. It always has been and always will be the best way to learn.

3. Do try DIFFERENT methods. Vegas supports unlimted tracks. You can group, ungroup, move things around, select large areas of the timeline and apply some effects or move things at once, etc.

4. If you plan on doing "serious" work, you got to have an external monitor to check color/level correction if your final work is going to be viewed of a TV, either broadcast, from a DVD, whatever.

I tried the search for "long form" in this forum but didn't find anything to help me. Does anyone have any other methods of editing scenes together? Thank you again.

I'd suggest getting all the (PDF format) newsletters from Edward Troxel's site and going through them to bring you up to speed. Even though some of them were written for Vegas 4, the same things still apply. You'll find Vol.1 - Issues 4 - 8 particularly helpful as they cover the basics of capturing, editing, etc.

Mike