Nested project questions

[Jeff Schroeder]

The way nesting works is you drag the .veg to the timeline and it acts like a piece of media on an event. You can trim it fade it spit it and everything you can do to a regular event. When you right-click on it you can ‘edit in Vegas’ and make internal changes. When you save the changes and go back to the host project it rebuilds a proxy for the timeline. So if your original stereo .veg has 19 tracks, it will import as 2, one video and one audio. Hope this helps

Jeff

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[John Rofrano]

I couldn’t have explained it any better than Jeff did but let me answer your individual questions so you are clear:

[Paul Gregory] “I could make each place visited into a separate project & save it as a separate veg file. Once I have the entire trip finished this way I would then start another project for the entire trip. I just open the first veg file & then just import each subsequent veg file until the entire trip is on the timeline.”

Yes, I do this all the time with training videos. I make each chapter a separate project and then assemble all of the chapters into a master project for rendering.

[Paul Gregory] “Once on the timeline if I happen to see something that I wish to alter I just start up a separate instance of Vegas & start up the veg file that needs altering & once I save this again the alteration flow through to the main project. Is this correct?”

As Jeff pointed out, you don’t even need to manually open a separate instance of Vegas. If you right click on the event and select Edit in Vegas (xxx.veg) it will do all of that for you launching Vegas with the correct project file and returning with the timeline updated.

[Paul Gregory] “If I wish chapter markers added to final project before rendering out do I put them in on each separate veg or is this done only on the overall project?”

Unless the chapter markers are just to mark the beginning of each project file, I like to add the chapter markers in the project themselves and then use the Promote Media Markers script to extract them to the main project. In fact, I added a function in VASST Ultimate S Pro that assembles veg files into a master project and extracts all of their markers with one click (because I use this a lot and needed it) 😉

[Paul Gregory] “Do the relative audio levels of each separate veg file have to be set perfectly before they get imported into the final project or can this be done just prior to rendering?”

I would set the audio levels correctly in each project. It’s easier that way. You can always adjust the levels in the master project but that should be just to make each project the same level with each other. Any audio adjustments within the project should be at the project level so that each event created from the projects is at a constant volume.

[Paul Gregory] “Is there anything else that I should know about nested projects?”

Nest projects do not support 5.1 surround sound. You will only get stereo audio. Other than that, they pretty much behave just like any other piece of media as Jeff said.

~jr

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