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creating “highlight program” from a long program – how to manage the clips?
Greetings, here is my question and I have been doing this but feel the need to ask for a possible better solution. (Vegas 5)
I have a long program – a wedding about 1.5 hours. I currently save each segment – ceremony, and reception and then put them together.
I find that Vegas is not very forgiving if you go into a long program and start chopping out parts and bringing them back together for a “condensed version”my main problem is that (even though I am careful to try and make sure that all clips with extra video and audio are “grouped” and the ignore groups is off.. many time things still seem to get out of sinc (added music for example) or audio and video end up getting out of order.
I know it is probably me, but in a program that can be an hour or more… it’s easy to miss something.
I currently save my project – lets say a reception that is “documentary in style” to a program that I call “work” which means I am going to chop this one up (and maintain my original version as the original version inj a program that was not named “work”.
This means i literally go in and delete stuff that I want out of the new shorter version and drag the remaining stuff over to the point i left off… working through in that manner until the end… with a program that could go form 1 hour to 15 minutes or a little longer..
On a media 100 this is a snap… there is no need to regroup stuff… or let’s say that grouping things is a little more intuitive and unless somehting is specificly “ungrouped” it will stay that way and all move together…
So… what is the best approach… perhaps re-render the complete program as another avi and start there….
or what should I look at to keep things “organized”
Many thanks and I apologize for the long post but more info is better than not egnough!
Wayne
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The two approaches that come to mind would be to render out the bits you want to compile or delete out the parts (Ctrl/A Delete) you DON’T want, then group the elements of the remaining segments.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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“I have a long program – a wedding about 1.5 hours. I currently save each segment – ceremony, and reception and then put them together.
I find that Vegas is not very forgiving if you go into a long program and start chopping out parts and bringing them back together for a “condensed version”“my main problem is that (even though I am careful to try and make sure that all clips with extra video and audio are “grouped” and the ignore groups is off.. many time things still seem to get out of sinc (added music for example) or audio and video end up getting out of order.”
First, I would ignore added music; your highlight should be cut to its own music bed.
Second, you could select short segments out of your working project(s) as you go. Simply copy them, and then either drag the copies to their own “highlight” file folder, or simply position them way down at the end of the timeline.
When you’re done with the main program, you’ll have a group of clips for the highlight video. You could then delete everything else and save the result as a new “highlights” project. Arrange and adjust the clips to a nice music bed.
Regards,
Doug Graham
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