Quicker Way To Add Video Only

Yavuz_Just_Yavuz wrote on 8/19/2025, 4:21 AM

Hi I'm new to vegas pro 22 and was looking for more info adding Video only from project media. From what I know, you can drag clips in while holding right click, and then go through a submenu to add only the video. I was wondering if there was a way to make adding video only the default behavior, or if there was any scripting resource I can use or make to achieve that behavior as well.

Thank you for your time.

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jetdv wrote on 8/19/2025, 7:41 AM

You can definitely do it using scripts. You might look here (start with the oldest one and work your way forward):

https://www.youtube.com/@JetDVScripts/videos

Yavuz_Just_Yavuz wrote on 8/19/2025, 6:21 PM

Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to read more into it!

Yavuz_Just_Yavuz wrote on 9/11/2025, 10:35 PM

Ok so update, I found out that scripts dont have a event listener for adding video, so trying to make a script for this was short lived. What I did find was a post about batch render.

So what you can do is make a temporary project, drag in all your clips, and then one by one double click them, and then press R to make regions around them. THEN make a new render setting that's high definition video, but also go to the audio tab and Remove the rendering of audio.(Uncheck include Audio box), render using the batch renderer script selecting the render setting(I needed to reload vegas for the new render setting to show in batch render), and checking the box that says render regions. Then all the video that is rendered through the batch render will be without audio, and you can simply drag those clips and use them, instead of right clicking to remove audio every time, which would save you a lot of time only if you have that many clips you need without audio.

3POINT wrote on 9/11/2025, 11:58 PM

So what you can do is make a temporary project, drag in all your clips, and then one by one double click them, and then press R to make regions around them. THEN make a new render setting that's high definition video, but also go to the audio tab and Remove the rendering of audio.(Uncheck include Audio box), render using the batch renderer script selecting the render setting(I needed to reload vegas for the new render setting to show in batch render), and checking the box that says render regions. Then all the video that is rendered through the batch render will be without audio, and you can simply drag those clips and use them, instead of right clicking to remove audio every time, which would save you a lot of time only if you have that many clips you need without audio.

You can drag more than ONE clip at once into the timeline and choose by right clicking only the videopart. Another way is to select clips on the timeline, ungroup audio and video and delete the audio part.​​​​​

@Yavuz_Just_Yavuz Your solution is the most time-consuming workaround I ever heard of.

Gid wrote on 9/12/2025, 2:58 AM

Your solution is the most time-consuming workaround I ever heard of.

Agreed! 👍

@Yavuz_Just_Yavuz 

Or drag the clips to the timeline & delete the whole audio track from the header, the clips don't need to be ungrouped.

Or open each one in the Trimmer & right click - choose 'Video Only', make your selection in the trimmer window if you don't want the whole clip, then 'Add to timeline' or drag it down onto the timeline.

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Fu-Ji wrote on 9/12/2025, 3:44 AM

You drag your media to the timeline with the right mouse button, and it will automatically pop up a menu, and you can click Video Only.

Mindmatter wrote on 9/12/2025, 4:11 AM

I've posted about this before - it would be great to have the opotion to make the "video or audio ONLY" button

( triggered by TAB in the trimmer ) permanent until you click it again, just like any other button.

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Yavuz_Just_Yavuz wrote on 9/12/2025, 5:58 AM

So what you can do is make a temporary project, drag in all your clips, and then one by one double click them, and then press R to make regions around them. THEN make a new render setting that's high definition video, but also go to the audio tab and Remove the rendering of audio.(Uncheck include Audio box), render using the batch renderer script selecting the render setting(I needed to reload vegas for the new render setting to show in batch render), and checking the box that says render regions. Then all the video that is rendered through the batch render will be without audio, and you can simply drag those clips and use them, instead of right clicking to remove audio every time, which would save you a lot of time only if you have that many clips you need without audio.

You can drag more than ONE clip at once into the timeline and choose by right clicking only the videopart. Another way is to select clips on the timeline, ungroup audio and video and delete the audio part.​​​​​

@Yavuz_Just_Yavuz Your solution is the most time-consuming workaround I ever heard of.

Ok so the reason I don't want to do this in my particular use case, is that I'm working with like over 50 clips, and multiple clips need to overlap one another at different times in the video. Losing the project media ability to quickly search tags while having all the videos on the timeline would lose more time for me overall.

Another idea is just adding them in sets and then removing the audio channels after the fact, and I suppose that wouldn't be so bad, but its a lot of visual clutter. Like 7 layers plus audio layers on each, that's a lot of scrolling up and down and zooming in and out. I guess these things weren't said in my original post because they weren't relevant, but yeah I think that batch rendering is the best practice for my videos going forward, but my videos aren't the norm~

Your solution is the most time-consuming workaround I ever heard of.

Agreed! 👍

@Yavuz_Just_Yavuz 

Or drag the clips to the timeline & delete the whole audio track from the header, the clips don't need to be ungrouped.

Or open each one in the Trimmer & right click - choose 'Video Only', make your selection in the trimmer window if you don't want the whole clip, then 'Add to timeline' or drag it down onto the timeline.

I don't know anything about the Trimmer, but if I had to click through each clip individually it would still take a while longer. I mean my solution will probably take me like 30 minutes with re-tagging and all, but its really hands off afterward.

Anyways thanks for the replies, I'm still learning Vegas Pro, so I'm thankful for these responses :3

I've posted about this before - it would be great to have the opotion to make the "video or audio ONLY" button

( triggered by TAB in the trimmer ) permanent until you click it again, just like any other button.

TwT, I really would just like a video only toggle.

 

jetdv wrote on 9/12/2025, 6:49 AM

I always just right-click and drag to the timeline and choose "Video Only". If you have multiple clips selected, it will apply to all of them and you can choose "Across Time" or "Across Tracks".