Reusable clip library?

matthew-schwartz wrote on 1/16/2018, 5:06 AM

Before moving to Vegas Pro, I was using Camtasia as my editor.

Camtasia had a feature called the "Library" to which you could add commonly used media and custom grouped media. For example, I could create an intro clip which contained music, pictures, logo, and voiceover. Then I could group it together, and add it to the library. In future videos I would grab it from the library and add it to the timeline for the new project. This could be done with pictures, video clips, custom elements, and grouped media (as in the previously described "intro" example)

The thing about the Library was that it stored those reusable clips in a permanent location, as opposed to simply referencing the original media files in their location on the hard drive. Basically it made a copy of the media in the Library and stashed it in some folder within the user files or program data (not sure where)

Does Vegas Pro offer a feature similar to the Camtasia Library? If so, what's it called and where do I access it?

If not, do you have any ideas or suggestions for the best way for me to manage media clips that I would reuse often, to enable me to do something similar?

Thanks

Comments

Cornico wrote on 1/16/2018, 8:15 AM

Try nesting.
Nesting I use when I have for an introduction or title used more tracks with more media.
You can save it as a veg (a project) and drag it later in another ( or the same) project to the timeline where it than fits 1 track for video and 1 track for audio.
The used media must stay on the computer, but can be stored at a chosen location.

john_dennis wrote on 1/16/2018, 11:03 AM

"The thing about the Library was that it stored those reusable clips in a permanent location, as opposed to simply referencing the original media files in their location on the hard drive."

While that may seem like a nice feature, it can become a burden with the duplication of media. If you don't mind the duplication and find nesting burdensome (I don't) you could render the reusable media to a lossless of "lossy, but good enough" format and build your own library.

NickHope wrote on 1/16/2018, 10:46 PM

I agree with John about the duplication.

Since Sony Media Manager stopped working after Windows 10 version 1511, there isn't really any media management within Vegas.

You could use a 3rd-party media manager like TMPGEnc KARMA.. Plus 2 (just had a recent big update) or Grass Valley Mync.

matthew-schwartz wrote on 1/17/2018, 3:34 AM

Try nesting.
Nesting I use when I have for an introduction or title used more tracks with more media.
You can save it as a veg (a project) and drag it later in another ( or the same) project to the timeline where it than fits 1 track for video and 1 track for audio.
The used media must stay on the computer, but can be stored at a chosen location.

Thanks, nesting sounds good and I will give it a try. Based on the suggestions in this thread I can probably come up with my own workflow for this that will be better than the camtasia library.

If I make a change in the original veg file, then open a project that has that veg file nested in it, will the project automatically load the updated veg file? Or do I need to "re-nest" the file?

Thanks