replace a section multiple places?

seanfl wrote on 10/16/2005, 1:18 PM
Take a project that has either a video portion or audio portion that needs to be updated many places. You have a :60, a :30 cutdown, then a :10.

for instance, there's a voiceover that says "this Sunday October 16th." That phrase appears 9 times in your project.

Is there an easy way to replace that chunk with something else? So "Sunday October 16th" would become "tomorrow night" for example? Then a version with "tonight" without distructively changing the source media?

At this point, I go to the first instance of it, open the source media, then select the new phrase I want. Then I copy that around by holding control and moving it to all the places that it needs to appear.

I remember an editor from the past that would let me pick a region, say update or replace...then every place the exact region was referenced, it would replace with whatever you defined.

thank you to the feature and efficiency experts. Sean

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2005, 1:34 PM
Well, you could rename your source files, then replace those source files with files with the same name as the originals. However, I'm not sure whether this solves the problem you've got.
Chienworks wrote on 10/16/2005, 3:31 PM
I like John's idea and have used it successfully on a few occasions.

For future consideration, if you're doing new projects like this again with Vegas 6, you can identify the parts that will need to be changed, make those as separate mini-projects in their own .veg file, then place this .veg file on the timeline instead of a media clip. Then when it's time to make the change simply edit that mini project and save it. Instantly the overall project will reflect this change everywhere the smaller one is included.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/16/2005, 5:47 PM
If you've got those segments separated out, like standard donuts are, you can also go into the media pool and replace that one section by right clicking/replace. This will allow you to do new files for each donut. Be sure of course, that they're the same length.