I would just take it to a photo manipulkating program (Photoshop), flip it and bring it back.

Unfortunately neither the pan and crop or the track motion tools seem to have any way of flipping the entire video frame horizontally.

Photoshop won't work because I certainly don't want to work frame-by-frame in Photoshop, way too tedious.

I just found an effect in Pinnacle Studio that does exactly what I want so I guess I'll have to use it and import the clips back into Vegas.

This is one of my pet peeves about Vegas and the only reason I keep Pinnacle Studio around...they have a greater number of effects available and are generally much easier to use than Vegas.

Oh well...at least I can finish my project. Thanks guys.

P.S. If someone knows how to easily do this in Vegas I would still like to know for my next project that needs it.

Steve,

Was going to suggest JPs Effects in Studio (since i remembered you have that. But, did you try using the "mirror" video effect in Vegas? I have it VMSPP 9.

Hey Mark...yes I sure did try the mirror effect and it has every adjustment imaginable, ACCEPT a simple horizontal flip of the entire frame. :-)

For a horizontal flip, in Vegas, go to the video event and hit the 'pan/crop' icon. Right-click any where on the video and select 'flip horizontally'. The 'F' will be mirrored, (but the screen will not.) Close the window. Your video will be flipped in the preview, horizontally.

It's there ... it's easy ... IF you can find it ;-)

Go to Pan/Crop

Right click on the image in the Pan/Crop box.

Select FLIP HORIZONTAL

You are done!

DARN ... got beat with the correct answer by just one minute ;-))

My goodness! Thanks a ton guys. Just in time. I was literally seconds away from having to do this in Pinnacle Studio and re-importing clips!

Sweet. Of course, this is no where to be found in the help files--at least by doing obvious searches like "horizontal" and "flip" unless I didn't look hard enough!

Right. A problem is that the Studio version has soo many features that the Vegas developers do not want to scare away newcomers by a huge manual - so the Studio version manual is kept at a low "need to know".
In the good old days there was just one manual covering both versions - over 300 pages - and where the Full Vegas Only features were marked. Then we got the 60 pages VMS manual and the 400++ pages Full Vegas manual.
I always saw this as a not so good idea because the new Studio manual is too brief and also reading the Full Vegas Only marked sections in the old manual always made me want to buy the Full Vegas - which I eventually did.
However you can download the manual from the Full Vegas from %windir%System32Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks and be surprised how many of the features from the Full Vegas are (more or less) available in the Studio version... including the Flip :-)

Of course, this is no where to be found in the help files--at least by doing obvious searches like "horizontal" and "flip" unless I didn't look hard enough!

I'm far from being an expert. I *have* been working with the program from since the Screenblast days, but I also have had a personal computer since 1979 so I have some experience in how things often work. (not just in video editing programs, but in most any program)

When you asked this question I did not already know the answer, but I went into the program and poked around in the (to me) obvious place. It only took a few minutes to find the answer. I *was* lucky, but a bit of experience in how programmers think also helped ;-)