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Why is there no “Flatten layers” ?
I come from PHOTOSHOP and ILLUSTRATOR, where, as you know, after you’ve gotten your layers just the way you want them, you can, with one command, Flatten all your Layers into the bottom-most layer.
VEGAS doesn’t have this, and I’m sure there’s a very good reason why… The video world is different, I’m guessing, than the 2D still world. I don’t doubt this for an instant, but…
Can you illuminate these reasons better for me? What bad or difficult thing would happen if you could somehow “Flatten layers” in VEGAS?
Thanks, DAVE
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4 Replies
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‘Flatten Layers’ can be easily mimicked by using nested projects or ‘render to new track (Ctrl M).
Theo
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‘Flatten Layers’ can be easily mimicked by using nested projects or ‘render to new track (Ctrl M).
Yea, and actually “Render to new Track (Ctrl+M)” is not a ‘mimic’ it is exactly what flatten layers is. It flattens all visible layers to a new layer just like Photoshop. The only difference is that you are flattening 30 images per second and need to store them on your hard drive because they take up too much memory.
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‘Yea, and actually “Render to new Track (Ctrl+M)” is not a ‘mimic’ it is exactly what flatten layers is.’
RENDER TO NEW TRACK in Vegas is even better than FLATTEN LAYERS in photoshop, since the FLATTEN LAYERS command looses all the layers while they stay intact in the RENDER TO NEW TRACK command, ready to make any change afterwards.
Theo
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I believe that the best practices in Photoshop is that you NEVER flatten your primary image. If you do, you will never again be able to adjust the original image to correct problems that you may not see today. If you flatten, best practices says that you save the flattened image to a new file. That is precisely what Vegas does when you render a project to produce a ‘final’ result. The render produces a new file, but does not destroy all of the adjustments and settings that were used to create that file.
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