@bobpeterson3 + @RussFroze

Why we need subclips:
Although we can splice clips so that our timeline consists of subclips without using the trimmer, we can’t tag those spliced clips.

Case #1: 60 hours of documentary footage – clips tagged according to multiple parameters. If we had just spliced the clips in the timeline, we could then watch all the…

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I can add all subclips to the timeline of each source project, and then copy them from there into the timeline of the new project. Is there a more efficient way to get all the subclips from all the projects into one new project?

(Or is there a database for subclips like Vegas’ previous “Media Manager”?)

I created and named regions in the timelines of 20 projects.

I want to turn them all into subclips.

I can select each region and click “Open in Trimmer”, and then create a region in the Trimmer and then copy and paste the region name from the Timeline to the Trimmer.
Is there a script or extension that would do that automatically?

(To batch-create…

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10 or 15 years ago Vegas came with a database for organizing subclips – the “Media Manager”. Is there a replacement for that now?

The loss of the media manager seriously harmed my ability to work.

I take subclips from many hours of footage, with many themes / people / seasons …. I would have 1000 subclips if Media Manager still existed, and I…

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Can it be done? How? After Effects? If so, is there a specific tool to use, or just “masking”? (I don’t have After Effects, yet. If there is an alternative, I’m interested.)
I have Vegas Pro 18 – no other video editing software.