[Hugh Macdonald]

Yes, but that doesn’t help make it “proper” for an encyclopedic entry. If I can get some first hand knowledge and sources that prove it then it wont be removed willy nilly.

[Hugh Macdonald]

I also burn DVDs with 6 and 7 VBR and have received no complaints about not being able to play the DVD. With 2pass VBR and my content burning greater than 7 gives me no benefit.

[Hugh Macdonald]

Say you duplicate your project (xxx.veg) and eliminate all but the track that has the two pieces. (Or just mute all but.) Save this project, e.g. “two.veg”.

In your original project create a new track and drag two.veg into it. The project two.veg will appear as one item in the other project.

(You can apply fx, edit it, etc, like any video clip.)

[Hugh Macdonald]

Good point. As a software designer I think there are rather easy creative solutions.
UNSPLICE would only work if the two clips when joined form contiguous footage. So it would not be bad to just leave the common FX at the last setting, just as when you extend the length of a clip. Similarly extending a new added FX from one clip to all the others is just as is done when doing PASTE ATTRIBUTES. Nothing new.
Of course there can be confusion if two or more of the same FX are active in one clip but not another. Like two chromakeys or levels. You might have difficulty in choosing which FX to join to each other.
In my editing, I would have the same FXs applied to any series of clips I would later want to UNSPLIT.
For my own likely scenarios of use, any solution (duplicate FXs, choose one randomly to append, etc.) would be more useful than not having UNSPLICE.

[Hugh Macdonald]

The pieces are not contiguous after removing pieces. But just output the track (cntrl-M) and you will not lose quality since no recompression will occur (if smart rendering). It will take hard disk space for the new file.
Otherwise, make a separate project of it and import it (i.e. nest it).

[Hugh Macdonald]

When does Vegas perform a deinterlace? All FX? Some FX? Only when changing from i to progressive?

Surely, if I am staying within SD there is no need to deinterlace? But perhaps when cropping or moving or converting from 1080i or PAL you would need to? But straight cuts — why deinterlace?

If I knew what actions caused a need to deinterlace, then I could choose which deinterlace method to use.

[Hugh Macdonald]

Yes, if you never make a mistake you don’t need UNDO either.

The problem is human psychology, expectation, etc, the whole human interface thing. For example, if the screen tracks are large or other tracks are some distance from the one I’m working on, or I’ve clicked on a setting somewhere there is no salient clue that the track I’m looking at is not the selected track.

If all the tracks glowed bright pink or a animated glowing line went from top to bottom when I split globally then I could quickly do UNDO. But since I have missed the global split many times I think UNSPLIT is a great idea and would speed my work and eliminate errors down the line.

Also when I sometimes reconsider and take out an edit, I would love to UNSPLIT it to make it visually consistent for me the editor.

[Hugh Macdonald]

I think it is quite easy. Vegas already does this when you shorten or lengthen a clip. E.g. when shortened from the left it moves the keyframes to start at the new beginning or when changed on the right it adjusts the keyframes there.
Crop and FX and keyframes are just lists of frame numbers and settings. Unsplice would only have to concatenate the two lists.

Which reminds me Vegas should allow cut and splice from one clip to another clip. You can only cut and splice within a clip. Vegas is very deficient in transferring “attributes” from one clip to another compared to Final Cut which allows you to select which FX to transfer.

[Hugh Macdonald]

John, read back, this method is no better than control-z.
If you have edited both parts of the clip, i.e. time has past, then there can be keyframes, fx, other, that you might want to keep. Deleting one piece loses any changes.
Unsplit would help a lot.

[Hugh Macdonald]

Vegas should fix this. I have several times split all channels thinking I was just splitting one. Then after additional editing I find the error and don’t want to control-Z myself backwards and lose all the editing I’ve done.
Similarly, f the two split segments have filters or keyframes, the delete and stretch method loses all that.
As I said, anyone know how to tell Vegas to fix this — I’ve hated it since version 1.