Project Bins? - Question from Reading DSE Book

Infinite5ths wrote on 8/4/2007, 3:28 PM
I'm reading through DSE's Vegas 6 Editing Workshop. There is one comment about bins that has confused me:

"Bins can be dragged from project to project in Vegas or stored as project bins so that they'll always be found within the preferences of Vegas." (p. 121)

The first half of that statement is obvious to me. I don't understand the 2nd half. It sounds to me as if there is a way to set up bins that will always appear in every project (or at least every NEW project). But I can't find anything in the Vegas 6.0d UI or in the help files that shows how to do this.

Have I missed something, or misunderstood something?

Also, there is a section of the same chapter (p. 122) that refers to using Import Media with a "Merge media from Vegas project files into current project" setting to import all of the media from another project. I can't find this setting or this capability in Vegas 6.0d.

So far the only way I can find to re-use a bin is to drag it from one project into another project (opened in another instance of Vegas 6). Are there other options for re-using or merging media and/or bins from old projects?
--
Mike

Comments

vicmilt wrote on 8/5/2007, 4:42 AM
Mike -

If you have a certain bin structure that you love - one way to get it in every new project would be to simply save a "Master bin" setup to your personal likes, and then simply open that on each new project vs. the default, and immediately do a "save as" for your new project.

There are probably other ways of getting this result (I'll be watching this thread) - but that's one I've used in the past.

v
rmack350 wrote on 8/5/2007, 12:08 PM
The description makes no sense, but neither did the quote from the book.

What I think you're saying is to make a master veg file (a master project). This is kind of what people do when they prefer to lay out and review all their footage on a timeline rather than in the trimmer (the trimmer method works a little better when you capture whole reels and then make regions in the trimmer, IMO)

So you essentially use a whole project as an organizational tool, and you have two projects open as you work.

Rob Mack
Infinite5ths wrote on 8/5/2007, 12:30 PM
Hey folks!

The quote didn't make sense to me, and I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.

Based on this quote, I thought that perhaps there was a way to set up bins that automatically show up in every new project -- something like the "Start all new projects with these settings" option in the Project Properties dialog. Evidently that's not the case.

That said, it seems that the easy way to re-use bins is to create a template file & use Save As -- just like with most software. And copying bins from project-to-project works also.

Thanks for clarifying this. :-]