Working with more than one project

londonis wrote on 11/25/2002, 12:34 PM
I am working with some "old material" and have a few hours of DV tape. I would like to break it into components, for convenience. Is it possible to generate several projects (.veg files) and then start a new project and bring in several projects, saving all of them as a single project - or, do you have to go back to all of the clips and work from there?

Thanks for the input.

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Sr_C wrote on 11/25/2002, 1:27 PM
You can do this in a couple ways. You can open up all of your individual projects separatly and copy and paste the information to your master project. (Note: text and generated media will not copy over as well as some keyframe info) or you can render each individual project, creating different "clips". Then load all the clips into the master. I prefer the latter -Shon
TorS wrote on 11/25/2002, 1:41 PM
Shon,
do you render the clips in the same format as you will do the finished product?

Tor
londonis wrote on 11/25/2002, 2:56 PM
Thanks for the input. Taking the second suggestion first, am I correct in assuming that you render each .veg file as an .avi file and then add all such .avi files to the media pool of a new "master" project. This can then be saved as a new composite .veg file.

The first suggestion didn't seem to work. When you say, "open all individual projects separately and copy and paste", I ran into a problem. Firstly, I can only open one .veg file at a time. Even with that, after copying those tracks that are of interest, they are not available for pasting when I open a new project for creating a master project. I obviously am missing something. If you have the time, would you mind spelling it out for me in a bit more detail?

Thanks
Jason_Abbott wrote on 11/25/2002, 2:58 PM
To open multiple files simultaneously you'll first need to start multiple instances of Vegas, then load a file in each one.
Chienworks wrote on 11/25/2002, 3:01 PM
londonis, you have to open more than one Vegas session at once. Launch Vegas and use that timeline for assembling your master project. Launch Vegas again, and open up each individual project in this Vegas window one at a time, highlight and copy the timeline, then switch back to the original Vegas window to paste.

It's probably easier to use the "render to .avi" method, but this doesn't allow you to make any changes to the clips after they're imported into the overall project.
londonis wrote on 11/25/2002, 3:09 PM
Thanks for the clarification - and the extra info as to the limitations on rendering to .avi first.

By the way, I have been using Dazzle Complete for authoring DVDs. Have you any thoughts on their softeware, or other software that you find to be of good quality, with decent flexibility.

Thanks
londonis wrote on 11/25/2002, 3:10 PM
Thanks for the clarification. A simple soloution, my favorite class.

londonis
Sr_C wrote on 11/25/2002, 3:21 PM
"do you render the clips in the same format as you will do the finished product? "

Yes, I usually am starting with NTSC DV raw footage, I then render individual clips to NTSC DV, and then render my final to the same. After I have the finished project, I use it as my master (for rendering to other formats such as WMV, MPG etc...)

Keeping the same format throughout will maintain the best quality and the least artifacts. -Shon