Vegas "workflow" question

MRe wrote on 11/14/2004, 11:52 PM

Hi,
I've this problem with my standard workflow when adding "secondary" video clips. To clarify the situation here's my standard track-layout from top to bottom:

1. stills
2. secondary video
3. master video
4. video audio (stereo sound only, i.e. LF, Center, RF, a bit of sub-woofer)
5. video audio as 5.1 surround
6. audio fx as 5.1 surround
7. music

Now, when I add any AVI-clips to secondary video-track, Vegas always adds extra audio track beneath it with the video audio. I just could keep the track there and mute+minimize it, but just for the sake of overall "cleanliness" I would prefer to do without it altogether. Is there any easy way to either automatically redirect the audio to any of those existing audio tracks OR import video w/o audio?

And one more question: what would be the easiest way of making a template which would contain those tracks and their settings for future use? Currently I've saved an empty project with the tracks and settings but it's not a "true" template. Is there any script available which I could tweak to perform required actions?

It would be nice if Sony would introduce templates in future versions. Then you could easily have different settings for different kind of projects as in other (office) products.

BR,
MRe

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 11/15/2004, 12:14 AM

To add the video without audio right-click/drag from the explorer and choose video only.

You .veg should serve just fine as your template. What more would you want to see in this regard?

Gary

MRe wrote on 11/15/2004, 5:27 AM

>To add the video without audio right-click/drag from the explorer and choose video only.

OK, so the good old RTFM method would have done the trick ;) Thanks!

>You .veg should serve just fine as your template. What more would you want to see in this regard?

Probably nothing more. Only problem is that I could wipe out this "template" by saving on top of it, if I do not remember to make "Save As..." initially. Wouldn't be too hard for Sony to make ".vet" as template specifier but I can live with this.

BTW. I'll check what happens if I make the .veg as read-only file. That would solve the overwriting problem.

jkrepner wrote on 11/15/2004, 7:12 AM

I would suggest saving a few versions of this "template" project, in different locations, for safe keeping. Thus avoiding saving-over your one and only copy.

Is there any OTHER ways to drag over video only? I hate when I bring in clips and Vegas makes an audio track directly below it. I'm sure others hate it too. The right -click method works, but the additional step sort of sucks. When you are working on a complex segment that requires you to line up many video clips vertically, a sudden audio clips from nowhere really gets annoying.

jkrepner wrote on 11/15/2004, 7:18 AM

Hold the phone!

From the trimmer window: highlight the footage you want, and before dragging (or pressing A) the footage to the timeline, press the TAB button to toggle between highlighting the video track, the audio track, or both video & audio tracks.

Make sense?

MRe wrote on 11/15/2004, 10:44 PM

>BTW. I'll check what happens if I make the .veg as read-only file. That would solve the overwriting problem.

I tried this yesterday and at least my cursory testing revealed a strange behaviour from Vegas' side: Vegas clears the read-only flag from file! Also I changed security settings so that I removed write-access from the .veg-file for mys user-id. Vegas did reset that also!!!

It may be so that when saving Vegas actually saves the .veg-file as completely new file, deletes the old one and renames then new one.

Go figure.