Ciao Grazie, if this works for me it will be VERY useful. However, I think something is amiss on my Vegas. I added the veg to the event as a take, but it displays "media is offline". I right clicked the veg in the project media and selected to create a proxy and it says it is already creating one. That makes sense, but then it says I can press Cancel on the status bar, but there is no cancel visible - makes me think something is confused. It has now been a couple hours and still media is offline. In the instance of Vegas where I originally created the veg I was able to create a proxy in about 20 minutes. Any ideas?

Any ideas?

@Teetime - Yes. I'll try and repro . . . .

@Teetime - Can't add to a Still. Once I remove the Still then it works. Might need to Render the Still as a Vid first . . . . Still playing with this.

@Teetime @Grazie

Like everything else, I tend to do it the hard way...

@Teetime - Correction: It's working fine. Added a JPG and then two Veggies as TAKES, works fine. I hit the T and I can circle/rotate through all three.

@john_dennis - Well, it IS working as I described. 😉

@Grazie

I know, but it's not difficult enough for me.

Here you go! The UPPER screen is the TL, the Lower is the Preview. You can see the TAKE Changing:

@john_dennis @Grazie
I have tried both of your approaches and either successfully replaces my png with the desired veg file. What isn't happening in either case is the creation of a proxy for the desired veg. I just tested replacing my png with a tiny one event veg file and the proxy for that veg builds in seconds. In my actual project, the veg I am trying to use to replace the PNG with is quite complex, so I surmise it must be overwhelming Vegas.

I appreciate the insights you've offered!

@Teetime

You can easily do this in Vegasaur. Just tested converting a jpg to a veg and it does create the sfvp0 file correctly. Here's a screengrab of the GUI. Note that you have to manually add the jpg and veg as the original and new file extensions.

A simple script could easily be written, but there's no need to re-invent the wheel.