Thanks Gary,

Doesn't that apply to a project rather than an already rendered avi file? I'm under the impression that will result in a re-rendering of the portion of the avi file that is contained within the region??

Nothing will re-render. If you simply put the AVI file on the Vegas timeline and then use the Print To Tape feature, Vegas will render a few proxy files (won't take long, so you know it isn't doing any real rendering), and then being outputting to your camera.

I hope that Sony continues to enhance and improve PTT. It is an amazing timesaver for things like what you are doing. I originally started with the Pinnacle Studio product, and they had this feature from day one. I was very surprised to find that VideoFactory/MovieStudio don't have it.

I also use ScLive (a.k.a. Scenalyzer) to PTT. It doesn't require any proxy files (neither does Studio) and so you can just push the button and print. However, it doesn't let you specify must part of a file to print. What it DOES do is let you click on any number of files, press the Enter key, and it will then seemlessly print them all consecutively, with no gap between them. Very fast way to export back to tape.

Thanks Gary and John,

Thanks for your help. I did get this to work in Vegas although it is a little cumbersome for simple tasks.

I went back to Studio 8 and discovered that while in the Make Movie portion, one can take an existing avi file, "edit" it then print to tape with no proxy files being generated and no re-rendering. Very quick and easy. One disadvantage is that there is no video preview in Make Movie mode, so you have to note the in and out times while in Edit mode, then cut in Make Movie.

Please note that I'm not extolling S8 here, just noting some utility features.