Using Excalibur to remove all but the event I want to isolate, name and save.
Not such a bad work flow, but again for some reason CTR+T isn't trimming.
As I have always understood it "Trimming" gets rid of all but the highlighted event or segment.

Have you made sure that while you have made a time selection on the timeline that you have also selected a track?

If you do that then you get just the highlighted area remaining.

As Vegas is 'non-destructive' you need to not Save, but Render the selected section to a new file (tick the appropriate box for 'loop section', or delete the unwanted sections fom the timeline. Mute or remove tracks unwanted in the resulting file.

geoff

Was using Excalibur to isolate the events, and then saving as a veg file.
Now when I try to open any of those veg files on the time line they try to open as nested files.
This makes no sense.
I'm not a novice with this NLE, though I also won't admit to be particularly clever.
But I've used this work flow many times before.
Isolate, save as to a file.
Clicking a saved file to open, opens the files as a veg file on the time line.
What's happening here is files are opening as nested when clicked, and not even the selected file, but files with other names.
You get nested files by dragging to the time line in my past experience.
Clicking opens a veg file, always the way it's worked for me.
Or maybe the brain's starting to sputter?
Or this is a halloween trick from the folks in Madison?