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Nesting Vegas Projects
Am currently on Vegas Pro 8…
When I try to nest a couple of Vegas projects into an existing project, the nested projects audio tracks are inserted as a mixed down stereo track…
Is it possible to nest a project and have all audio tracks load as seperate tracks?
I know of the option of loading audio “across tracks” but the audio still loads as a stereo file.
Thanks for any help.
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6 Replies
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I think that’s the entire concept of a nested project: the whole thing is “mixed down” into one video and one audio track, right? So it sounds like you want to do something that nested projects are simply not designed to do.
It is possible to open two copies of Vegas and copy large chunks from one project into another – or copy the whole project and insert it into another one. This can get tricky and might take a couple of attempts to get it right with ripple editing and just generally mass chaos from such a complex insert, but it’ll work (just get ready to CTRL+Z).
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Hi, from my experience, you can open your project with the audio and your project that you are nesting it in at the same time. If you want to adjust the audio, do it in the non-nested project and hit save. It should then refresh in your project with the new change you made.
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D. Eric,
This is what I am doing right now…copying the entire contents of a project into another project to get all the audio on separate tracks.
At first, the volume and pan envelopes wouldn’t copy and paste until I realized that the “lock envelopes to events” tool should be activated on the copied project. Unfortunately, the track names aren’t copied too, so all copied tracks are namesless.
It’s a workaround, but at least I am able to insert audio into separate tracks.
Thanks.
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Why copy it? You can simply save it to a new name. That will retain everything without additional effort.
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Bob,
This is the basic workflow for a project in an AV post-prod class I am teaching with Vegas.
The video (a class project)has been shot and edited and this avi file is given to three other teams for additional editing work in Vegas: the Dialogue/ADR team, the Foley team, and the SFX/Music team. These teams are working simultaneously and once each team has finished their work, they pass on their respective Vegas project folders to the Mixing/Mastering Team.
The Mixing/Mastering team has to now merge (nest?) these three projects into one Mixing/Mastering Vegas file for final tweaks. We’d like to have this final file with all the audio tracks (with all volume and pan envelopes intact) from the three previous files as separate audio tracks, and not just three stereo mixed tracks.
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I see. Sounds like a good, standard workflow, with the big hack being the painful copy-n-paste part of the operation. The last series I worked on that had this sort of workflow we rendered out the audio tracks all to separate files for the mixing/mastering guy. Definitely chews up some disk space and required the editor to be neat with his track exports (and you get some oddball tracks that are 99% silent with just a few sfx), but it was very workable and the results were great. Granted, we were editing in FCP, but the best tool for the final mix in our workflow was Vegas. Mixing and mastering is an unappreciated art, to be sure, the Rodney Dangerfield of video post, with the coloristas getting all the glory these days!
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