Replace Source File with New One

[Paul Berk]

You can change out your video file by replacing it with another “take”.

Right-click and drag the media file from the Project Media or Explorer window to an event on the timeline. A shortcut menu is displayed when you release the mouse button.

From the shortcut menu, choose Add as Takes.

The media file is added to the event as the active take, and the original media file remains in your project as a take.

This might easily accomplish what you want.

[David Martin]

This method only replaces a single event. I have a long video (2 hours) with multiple events, but within the same timeline track. They are mostly splits and joins, but also an audio envelope with edits.

As I said, then opening Vegas and pointing it to a replacement file it works flawlessly. I guess I can continue to do this.

Thanks for responding.

[Paul Berk]

Oh .. I see … “adding a take” will not work for you.

Here’s what you can do.

Within Vegas … go to the Project Media .. find the file you wish to replace … right click .. chose “explorer containing folder” … This takes you to Windows Explorer … change the name of the file … when you close the Explorer window you should get the same dialogue that you are familiar with to redirect Vegas to a replacement file. All of this is done within Vegas.

[David Martin]

When you say “change the name of the file” you mean select the replacement file, correct? And I would do this by clicking once on it?

When I go to Explore Containing Folder, I get a File Manager window. I can select the file, but there is no Open or OK button, so it just sits there. Closing Explorer does nothing other than return me to Vegas. Double-clicking on the new file behaves exactly as you would expect in File Manager — it starts playing the file.

[Paul Berk]

>>When I go to Explore Containing Folder, I get a File Manager window.

When you go to Explore Containing Folder you should get Windows Explorer. I think in Windows 10 this is now called File Explorer. You are using Windows (not Vegas) at this point. From within the File Explorer window you can rename a file. I assume this is what you have been doing “outside” of Vegas. So you right click on the file that you wish to replace, and rename it. That means when you return to Vegas, that file will now be “missing”. This is the same as you did by renaming the file before you opened the project in Vegas.

Now when you close File Explorer window, you should get the same dialogue that asks you to locate the file or a replacement.

You are already doing this “outside” of Vegas. This is a way to do it within Vegas.

[Paul Berk]

By the way, before you alter your original project, you should do a “save as” so you don’t mess up that project.

[David Martin]

Ah, I was hoping avoid the whole renaming of the files. That’s what I do now, or I simply move the file to a new folder. The Replace routine sounded like a substitute, but it just screwed things up.

Oh well, at least I’ve got a working method.

Thanks for all the prompt responses. I figured this would take a couple of days.

[George Dean]

David, there is another option which may or may not fit into your workflow. It’s the ‘Swap Video Files’ option in the Project Media bin. If you are not familiar with this, it will swap all the clips in the Project Media bin, from the same folder, with clips of the same name in a different folder, all in batch mode, and keep the timeline edits.

This appear to take a bit of folder descipline and perhaps this is most appropriate for users who want to manage their own proxy files, rather than use the build proxy feature of Vegas, or perhaps for swapping out intermediates for originals.

Right click on a clip in the Project Media bin and select ‘Swap Video Files’, then in the directory window point to the folder with the replacement files.

Best Regards……George

[David Martin]

Thanks, George. I’ll give it a try when I get a chance . Right now I’m struggling with the audio portion of one of the files and using a new app that is incredibly complex. My brain feels like it’s about to explode, along with my backside.

By the way, what’s the bike?

[George Dean]

David, good luck with the audio challenge.

The bike is a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14, and what do you ride?

Best Regards……George