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xberk wrote on 6/14/2010, 7:35 PM
You use "add as takes" when you already have an event on the timeline you wish to leave in place but try a different take. This is a handy thing when you want to try something else in the same place on the timeline without giving up the original. Read the Vegas help on "take" or "takes"

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Grazie wrote on 6/14/2010, 11:54 PM
Just to add to this, when I add as takes a PSD Layered/Stream Event, those Layers/Streams come in as separate Takes, which can be useful. I just added a 5 Layer PSD to an existing 4 Layer PSD, and I now have (drum roll) 9 Takes.

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cold-ones wrote on 6/15/2010, 7:53 AM
Ahh, thanks for the help!

The key for me was understanding that you must drag a layered Photoshop file onto an existing clip for Takes to be created from layers, but I guess that's consistent with how Takes work in Vegas. (It adds a few steps for me, because the existing clip is a meaningless placeholder whose Take is deleted after adding the psd file).

Though don't you wish that the Take names were the same as the corresponding Photoshop layer names? That would make things quite a bit more organized, IMHO.

One other tip is to make sure is that after you've put the psd file into Vegas (using one of these methods) that you don't change the number of layers in the original Photoshop file. This will throw an error message.
xberk wrote on 6/15/2010, 1:17 PM
I think no matter how you add a layered PSD file to the timeline (as a take, or across time) it's various streams are labeled and available for selection. Right click on the layered PSD event and chose "streams". This only works with PSD, I think.

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cold-ones wrote on 6/15/2010, 3:22 PM
That's actually where I started with all this, because I could see different streams but not Takes (FWIW, streams are also only labeled with numbers, not the original Photoshop layer names). I was hoping the Add As Takes would rectify this, but alas... Takes are easier to change than streams, however (just press T).