Preferences: Default to No Tracks at Startup

[John Rofrano]

[Ron Whitaker] “I’ve downloaded Vegas Movie Studio HD Plantinum 11, and would like to know if there is a way to have the software startup with none of the default tracks appearing.”

Nope. This is the way that Movie Studio works. You’ll need to upgrade to Vegas Pro if you want an empty timeline at startup.

~jr

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[Matt Crowley]

This happens in Movie Studio 10 too, and I also find it annoying. There doesn’t seem to be any way to prevent this.

You just have to delete the “template” tracks if you don’t want them as the basis of your project. Just click on the first track header, shift-click the last track header, then hit delete.

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s a possible workaround.
Start up a new project, delete all tracks and then save it with a unique name (for example, MyBlankProject.vf) to your desktop.
The next time you’re ready to start a new project, drag the icon for MyBlankProject.vf on top of your Movie Studio icon.
If it works as I hope it will, you’ll have a trackless project to start with.
Immediately save this as a new project with the desired name in the appropriate location.

[Ron Whitaker]

That’s EXACTLY what I did! This morning I got to thinking, “What a minute, what if I simply created a new project, deleted all the tracks from the new project,and then saved it as [in my case] blank_timeline?” I did that, and then I opened it up, and voila, no tracks.

So, that is what I’m doing now. I simply open my blank_timeline project to start a new project, then save the project as a different name.

Works like a charm!

[Mike Kujbida]

[Ron Whitaker] “Works like a charm!”

Great minds think alike 🙂
Glad you found a solution.