How to have multiple timelines

[Danny Hays]

You can’t open more than one timeline in an instance of Vegas, but you can open several instances of Vegas, and copy from one to another. Also you can “Nest” a Vegas file and import it into another timline. Do a search for nesting in tne help file. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

[Harry Putnam]

> You can’t open more than one timeline in an instance of Vegas, but you can open several instances of Vegas, and copy from one to another. Also you can “Nest” a Vegas file and import it into another timline. Do a search for nesting in tne help file. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

OK, thanks, I thought I remembered there being some kind of work alike
Doesn’t sound quite as handy as multiple timelines but I’m sure will
be handy.

I’m using vegas at the moment since it is capable of working with the mpg files from the deconstructed DVD… Adobe tools are not.. (bad on you Adobe, good on you vegas…)

Maybe you can tell me if this is the kind of place any of that might come into play:

I’ve had to deconstruct a DVD of one of my wedding videos, since I lost track of the sources I used… its pretty old.

Consequently I’ve generated a single *.mpg file of the *.vob’s from the DVD. (using TMPGenc mpg Editor 3) My aim is to grab snippets from the full video to add to a small set of sampler snippets I show to customers… or put on line as needed to help get work.

So I’ve put the *.mpg on the vegas timeline with the purpose of cutting away most of it but saving out some key scenes of the various effects and moments during a wedding.

So I will end up with little chunks of video scattered down the timeline.

Then remaster the snippets into a short set of examples of what we do
for weddings.

In Premier I’d probably move the snippets onto separate sequences (timelines) and overhaul them there…(adding text explaining whats being done briefly with short text blocks that segue smoothly into the snippet. Then put them end to end on the main timeline and apply transitions. Go back to the individual timelines if any adjustments or edits are needed… editing the sub timelines would automatically change the full main timeline.

If you have time and the inclination, would you mind outlining how the techniques you laid out might accomplish something similar?

[Danny Hays]

OK, If you have your complete mpg on the timeline, put your curser on the video where you want to cut in and out, press the “s” key for split. select the pieces you dont want and hit delete. Then drag the remaing pieces back together in the order you want them to play in the final video. also if you overlap two pieces, it will create a cross disolve for the amount you have them overlaped. Hope this helps, Danny Hays