Vegas Feature

[John Rofrano]

Sony chose to use Nested Projects instead. I agree that tabbed sequences would have been much better for a number of reasons the largest being the sharing of project media. Every other NLE seems to have this except Vegas Pro. 🙁

Are you aware that you can nest projects?

~jr

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[Tawanda Mauchaza]

Thanks for pointing the nesting feature out to me, just tried it out and I think it’s not well thought out or at least, according to me, it’s not as handy as i would have prefered. The whole mission, of having to save multiple .VEG files and then drag them to the project window and then to the timeline, is just a lot of work. I want to be able to just save one project file and then be able to work on multiple sequences or nested projects in that one .VEG. And also If i need to tweak,add or remove something in one of the nested projects it should just be a tab away. This could make Vegas even more sexier I think. And Also the Multicam edit feature should be easier to understand how it works.

[John Rofrano]

[Tawanda Mauchaza] “The whole mission, of having to save multiple .VEG files and then drag them to the project window and then to the timeline, is just a lot of work. I want to be able to just save one project file and then be able to work on multiple sequences or nested projects in that one .VEG. And also If i need to tweak,add or remove something in one of the nested projects it should just be a tab away.”

I agree. The new Catalyst Edit from Sony works this way. It has a tab for each nested sequence. I doubt Vegas Pro will ever see this feature. We’ll have to wait until Catalyst Edit grows up and becomes a full fledged NLE.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

Would certainly be a handy feature in Vegas Pro for sure.
Hey, maybe it will soon be a feature in upcoming Vegas releases.

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[Aaron Star]

The Vegas UI is very old, like 1999 old, they chose a multi-window approach vs tabs. If you make your tabs windows of Vegas, you have pretty much the same thing. Changes to the nested windows are applied immediately in the master window. Save As is your friend vs New Project when you need a template with the same media. Alt-Tab quickly swaps you back and forth between the open instances of Vegas.

If your machine does not instantly swap between open Vegas windows, you need more ram in your system. Sluggish ALT-TAB is a very good indicator of not enough ram for your workflow.

I do think the tab idea would be useful, but after using the old UI for so long you get used to the quirks.

[Bob Peterson]

Then again, the need for multiple scenarios is probably quite limited. If it was a widespread need, Vegas would have lost out long ago. The question is whether a complete revision of the software’s concept of organization and operation is a good use of resources for a niche need. As for myself, I have never noticed the need to nest projects, and I prefer the KISS approach to software design.

[Aaron Star]

+1 to Bob

[John Rofrano]

[Bob Peterson] “Then again, the need for multiple scenarios is probably quite limited.”

It’s not just multiple scenarios. I use nested projects all the time for openings or closings that require multiple tracks. You can do complex compositing that doesn’t affect the rest of the project. It’s also really handy when motion tracking because you can track a small area and then include it into the main project. I also used nested projects for tutorial DVD’s where each chapter is a separate project and then I combine the into a master project that represents the entire program. I don’t think I’ve ever used it for multiple scenarios.

~jr

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[Bob Peterson]

Although you use it all the time, from my perspective, it is still a niche need. I don’t even use an Apple machine because a Windows environment still does EVERYTHING that I want to do.

[John Rofrano]

[Bob Peterson] “I don’t even use an Apple machine because a Windows environment still does EVERYTHING that I want to do.”

What does that have to do with using nested projects? I don’t follow.

~jr

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