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Moving Scenes on Timeline
I’m starting to do fine cutting on a large project. I want to cut and paste intact scenes (multiple events and tracks)and move them to different positions on the timeline, or even into a new project .veg. I can’t seem to find a way to do this.
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I’m not sure I understand the question. To move events you just select them then drag them to wherever you want on the timeline.
It might be easier to make each scene a stand-alone project then nest the veg files on a master project.
Steve Mann
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For dragging a mass of Events, I select the stuff, and hit G for Group, and then drag the Group. In your situ, that does it for me.
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I’m talking about a 2 minute scene comprised of maybe 15 or 20 events on 4 or 5 tracks. It’s too small to make a nested project. I don’t want to deal with 20 nested projects. I don’t know how I would select all the events on 5 tracks. How do I do this? Can I Cut and Paste? If I open a new project, can I Cut and Paste to it too?
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Well, you can Select All and then Copy & Paste.
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Press D two times (or so) to make the mouse tool change from the regular pointer to having a dotted rectangle. That will let you highlight multiple events across several tracks, which you can then drag wherever you want.
You can also hold CTRL while clicking on each event you want to highlight together, and move/copy/paste them wherever. Or, if you want to go from one event across to another and include everything in between, hold Shift while clicking on the first event and then the last one, and it will highlight everything in between and the two you clicked.
If you want to keep them grouped together so that you can just select one event and move them all, when you highlight them all, press G to group them. When you want to ungroup them, highlight the events you want ungrouped and press U.
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Can I copy and paste into a new project?
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[Jerry Hart] “Can I copy and paste into a new project?”
Absolutely! Keep the OLD and the NEW Project open while you do it. It’s called opening multiple instances of Vegas. This was one the great features I appreciate about VP.
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Control-click on each event.
I don’t know why the reluctance to use nested projects?Steve Mann
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[Stephen Mann] “I don’t know why the reluctance to use nested projects?”
Won’t you end up with the entire project being nested, which means you’ll have to cut out all the extra footage either before or after you nest it? Seems like extra effort to me.
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Nested events are – events. An event is only a pointer to the original media which Vegas never touches. A nested project is just a pointer to a pointer. What I envision in a movie project is that you finish the editing on each scene as a separate project, then save it. In a master project, you simply drag scene1.veg then scene2.veg, etc. to the timeline. On the master you can do project-wide adjustments or F/X, then you render your final output file.
Steve Mann
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