sub clips???

dvideo2 wrote on 7/29/2010, 11:49 AM
In final cut, sub clips are used to help organize footage....Is
there anything comparable to this in vegas?
In other words, lets say i have timecoded footage and i want to
organize shorter clips from a 1 hour file.....can i mark those
clips and have vegas consolidate them for me in any way?
Within final cut, you can use in and out points to identify a section
and then with a quick keyboard command, the section is identified
and then can be renamed.....The new file isn't a rendered, independent file, rather it is reaching out to the original, so there
is no increase in project file size as opposed to rendering out and
creating new clips......
ANY INFO on this?
Thank you....

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/29/2010, 11:57 AM
Right Click->Create Subclip
dvideo2 wrote on 7/30/2010, 10:32 AM
That's great feedback, thanks, but after trying what you wrote
"right click and create subclip", I'm realizing that you have
to have that particular section of the video isolated with cuts
before you are able to identify it as a subclip.........Is there a way
to create it without first making cuts in the video?
Thanks again...

Oh, also, shouldn't i be prompted to rename it before the clip gets
sent to the project bin? Is there a preference I can set to allow this
to happen (prompt me to renaim)...?
Thank you...
musicvid10 wrote on 7/30/2010, 10:43 AM
In Vegas, the subclip is a reference to the trimmed event on the timeline, so without splitting or trimming it will reference the whole event.

I don't know of a way to invoke a rename before saving the subclip.
altarvic wrote on 7/30/2010, 12:51 PM
Open your video in Trimmer, make selection and click on Create SubClip button
rmack350 wrote on 7/30/2010, 1:46 PM
Yep. The proper place to do this is in the trimmer. Just select out the area (you're defining a region) and then make the subclip.

I don't think you get a name choice untill after the subclip is made. In fact, one thing that scared me away from subclips several versions ago was that when you renamed a subclip and then copied it to a new Vegas project the subclip's name would revert back to the automatically assigned name.

If you have a little time you might also crack the manual and look into Regions. Really follow the workflow on these. I found that they were a lot easier to use than subclips in certain situations, mainly because the Vegas explorer can show them in a hierarchical view under their parent clips. This was a very fast way to organize a set of 20 sound bites within an hour long rambling interview. Regions are probably less helpful within short clips but if you're still using tape and capturing whole tapes or long segments then they're more helpful than subclips.

All this stuff is not perfect. SCS developers have never really tied all this stuff together, IMO.

Rob Mack