• VEGAS Pro

  Nested .veg Project Workflow

  Posted by Jerry Hart on July 29, 2013 at 3:16 pm

  I’m starting a documentary project that will eventually be about 50 minutes long edited down from about 30hrs of material. I wanted to be able to edit about 6 separate sections in rough form and then combine them as nested .veg files for the final editing, color correction and sound mix. After extensive testing, it seems that I can’t do this with Vegas Pro 12 and will have to build a 50 minute timeline because…

  When I put a .veg file on the timeline, it seems to do a mini render and winds up on one video and one audio track as a single event. FX are rendered and imbedded on the timeline and so can no longer be fine tuned for color correction. Cross-fades are embedded on one track and can’t be color corrected or adjusted. The audio can no longer be mixed with separate track levels.

  Is this the way VP12 handles nested projects? Or am I missing something?

  If I decide to edit on one long 50 minute timeline, can VP12 handle the huge file without instability and crashes? Will the workflow become awkward with such a long timeline?

  i7-3930 CPU 3.2Ghz
  16 Gb Corsair Ram
  GeForce GTX 570 GPU
  Media Drive: CalDigit Raid VP2 – 2Gb
  VP12 w/ Windows 7

  Stephen Mann replied 12 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kelly Griffin

  July 29, 2013 at 3:59 pm

  Yes, I think you’re missing something!

  Think of a timeline of nested VEGs as “what will be” your final output. Go ahead and tie each of your six sections together as your final, big timeline (I’ll call it “FINAL_VEG”). You can still make all the adjustments you mention, but you do those on the individual VEGs. Meaning, if you need to color correct a portion of the third section (I’ll call it “VEG C”), you do that color correction back on VEG C itself.

  Then, when you resave VEG C and then go load FINAL_VEG again, you’ll see your change made. Make sense?

  –KG
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  Doug Jackson

  July 30, 2013 at 1:36 am

  If you need to edit any of the nested segment events, simply select the segment, then right-click and choose “Edit in Vegas (my_section_1.veg)”
  That event will open in a separate Vegas window where you tweak it to your heart’s content. Then when you save and exit that .veg, your nested project will update with a new ‘mini-render’ as you call them of that piece.

  Regards,
  –Doug
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  Stephen Mann

  July 30, 2013 at 3:32 am

  I think you are missing the method of nested projects. You need to FINISH your editing on each section of your project then nest them all into the final veg file. When you bring the nested veg file into a master veg file, the master treats is as it would any other single event.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com

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