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moving clips to a new project
Since I have been searching Creative Cow, the internet at large, and Vegas help, I’m sure the answer to this is staring me in the face . . .
I have one project in Vegas Pro 10 that has in it a lower third which consists of a text box (using the glow effect) over a colored media background which also has effects applied to it. I want to use that same grouping in another unrelated project. Since I can’t have 2 time lines open at once, I am unable to copy the 2 clips, open the other project, and paste those clips in. If I copy the media from project media folder, I will only have the media, not the sizing, movement, or effects. I also tried opening a second instance of Vegas with the other project on it, but that didn’t work. Help?
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“I also tried opening a second instance of Vegas with the other project on it, but that didn’t work.”
Can you describe the exact steps you tried as this always works for me.
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Mike:
I highlighted the clip(s) I wanted and used CTRL-C to copy. I moved the the other open Vegas window and used CTRL-V to paste.
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Nathan, there’s no reason this shouldn’t work for you.
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Mike:
I tried that but nothing happens. I have tried right clicking, using the keyboard, and using the Edit menu.
I just remembered that one project is 1920×1080 and the one I’m trying to copy into is 1440×1080, but the clips are both generated media – colored background and text. Would that have anything to do with it?
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I’ve seen some copy and paste problems when pasting between Vegas Pro 10 instances. Why don’t you save it as a nested project?
Delete everything in the project except the lower thirds, clean the project media pool using the lighting bolt, move the lower third to the beginning of the project and save the project under a new name. Now you can drop this project into any other project that requires the lower third. This is how the VASST GrafPaks work. They are a whole collection of lower thirds that are implemented as nested projects.
~jr
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Nathan, I just tried it (using two pieces of generated media) and had no problems copying from one project to another.
If it makes any difference, I’m running 32-bit Pro 10.0c on XP Pro. -
Mike – I\\\’m running Vegas 10.c in 64 bit mode on a Windows 7 machine. Sometimes it hangs briefly and does some goofy stuff. Maybe a shutdown/restart would help.
John – thanks for the suggestion. I had thought of that but was looking for a more \”elegant\” solution. Perhaps I should just create all graphics I might reuse in their own project and nest that in whatever project I need. I haven\’t really played around with nested sequences, but does that collapse everything to 1 track, making it impossible to change generated media?
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“Maybe a shutdown/restart would help.”
That’s always a good idea.
“but does that collapse everything to 1 track,”
Yes, 1 track each of audio and video.
“making it impossible to change generated media?”
No it doesn’t.
Right-click on the nested event and select “Edit in Vegas (filename.veg)”.
This opens the veg file in a new instance of Vegas.
Make any desired changes and save it.
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[Nathan Halder] ” but does that collapse everything to 1 track, making it impossible to change generated media?”
No, you can always right-click on the nested project and open it to change it. Vegas will open a new instance and update the master project with any changes you have made in the nested project.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks John and Mike. I hadn’t played around with that aspect of Vegas before. I had opened long interview projects in another project and used the trimmer window to pick and edit my bites. This means I can save multitrack lower thirds and full page graphics as their own project. The new project is not as clogged up (visually) with as many video tracks. Also, I really like Vegas 10’s ability to group tracks. Thanks again.
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