Vegas TIP making child tracks.

busterkeaton wrote on 3/20/2005, 4:28 AM

I'm working on a project where I have 22 tracks and I decided to add a parent track for all of them. I didn't want to click "Make child track" on 22 tracks, so I tried clicking "Make parent track" on the top track, but nothing happened. So I selected tracks 2-22 and then clicked "Make child track" on the 2nd track it, voila, it worked. I'm sure some of you knew that already, but it's a handy shortcut.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/20/2005, 6:25 AM

Funny you'd mention that this morning, I posted
just late last night. Covers this in there. (selecting multiple tracks and making them children all at once.
Very handy way of covering a bunch of children at once.

PeterWright wrote on 3/21/2005, 12:24 AM

These sort of tips are priceless - we all know quick ways of doing some things, but there are still things we do the long way, just 'cos we don't know better. Thanks buster, and thanks Douglas for your continuous supply ... keep 'em coming folks, as will I ....

(What a great concept - using the forum to help each other)

Grazie wrote on 3/21/2005, 12:39 AM

Spot! An absolute KEEPER this! - Too good! Thanks PAL! - Grazie

PeterWright wrote on 3/21/2005, 5:56 AM

I'm looking forward to more and more .vegs emerging, showing applications of this "multi - child" facility - it's a much underknown and under-rated feature.

wakiyan wrote on 3/21/2005, 7:39 AM

I'm presently on Vegas 4.0 . do you know if there is big differences between 4.0 and 5.0 when it comes to parant tracks and child tracks?

Thanks
Jon

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/21/2005, 7:41 AM

With Vegas 4, you can't do nested compositing, and so you have to manually select each child off to the left side. It is indicated by the little "up" arrow on the far left of the track header. If you have 50 tracks, that's 50 clicks.