How to import a .veg file to another .veg file

[Mike Kujbida]

What you ‘re doing is called a nested veg.
As long as it’s Vegas 6 (the full version, not Movie Studio) or newer, import the old veg file just like you would any other asset (video clip, audio clip, image, etc.) and drop it on the timeline.
What you’ll see is a single video track and a stereo audio track, no matter how many tracks the original veg file had.
This veg can be edited by right-clicking on it and selecting “Edit Sopuurce Project”.
This will open the veg in a new instance of Vegas to allow you to make any changes necessary. Once you save and close it, the veg in the project you’re working on will be automatically updated.

[Frenchie29]

Do i have to select open or import in the file menue? if I do open it’s asking me to close the previous project.

[Edward Troxel]

Locate it in the Vegas EXPLORER window and just drag it to the timeline. File – Import will also work, though.

Edward Troxel

[Frenchie29]

K I got it by dragging but some sections are kind of jerky, and I had an error message that “some streams in the media files could not be open.”

[Sebastien Gravel]

You might need to verify if all the files from your previous project are still where they should be. If you open your previous project separately, are all the files there or some missing? You might need to relocate them (ex.AVI, MP3, Wav…)

[Xdirect]

I would be careful when nesting projects. I had problems with Vegas screwing up the interlacing when rendering the final project in the nest. I fixed it by rendering each project then importing the render instead of the vegas project. just an FYI.

[Daniel Lloyd]

How would you export files for use in another project? (i.e. what format will degrade the data the least?)

I’m trying to use previous vegs to make a showreel but even though all of the individual files from each of the projects are in the right place and each of the projects works (i just retested and rerendered them all) the showreel file won’t render [though it was when i started working on it…]

cheers.

[Tsoomoo Tsolmon]

Just copy and paste!

[Richard Jones]

Yes, my solution but do make sure you have both projects open at the same time or it won’t work.

Richard

[Danny Hays]

If you copy events from one Vegas project to another, you lose any effects or cropping you may have on the original event. If you want to render a video to use instead of nesting, uncompressed avi will not have any quality loss but will be huge in size and very hard to edit in Vegas. I would download Go-pro Studio. It will add the Cineform codec to your system and will show up in render as / AVI/Cineform .avi
This is a lossless format and edits very easy in Vegas and is nowhere near the size of an uncompressed avi. Hope this helps. Danny

Danny Hays
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