[Jill Simpson]

okay, thanks

[Jill Simpson]

Better yet,
I should do what I’ve done before:
Insert a video track above Track 1.
On other projects I’ve used Track 1 for text overlays. I can paste my clips to overlay into the track dedicated for overlays, of course.

I had been thinking ‘working with multiple tracks’ would require moving the original clips to a lower track. But no, I can just paste the temp/test/overlay clip onto the overlay-dedicated track.

Of course.
Cool.

[Jill Simpson]

I think it’s only possible to make a whole track a parent or child – I can’t set events or portions of tracks as parent/child, can I?

(I read the help files (including all the collapsed sections) on “Compositing and Masks” and “3D Compositing”.)

I know I do not make full use of Parent/Child compositing in my work, but I don’t see how it can help with what I’m trying to do here (or related situations). Did you have something specific in mind that I’m not seeing?

Thanks Steve,
Jill

[Jill Simpson]

Another Option:

Select all the clips I want to put ‘underneath’ (ctrl-click, ctrl-click, …), right-click, Switches > Mute.

If you already have the ‘new’ clip ‘standing by’ on a lower track, this method is simpler than cutting the ‘new’ clip, moving the originals, pasting the ‘new’ – and then possibly reversing all that if the outcome is not what you want.

I accept that overlaying clips is bound to result in ‘lost’ edits (“Where did I put that thing?”), so I am satisfied.

Thanks.

[Jill Simpson]

Thanks – I had never clicked on the unidentified/unlabeled folder icon.

But AUDIO:
If that doesn’t apply the audio settings, then surely I need to manually enter the Sample Rate and Bit Depth, if they are different from my defaults.

[Jill Simpson]

Thanks Chris,
Yes – that sounds perfect. I have not yet explored any Vegas extensions. While they obviously give helpful tools, I was trying to avoid the extra complexity of knowing how to make full use of these tools. But yes, the functionality you described is what I seek.

[Jill Simpson]

That would be both sweet and sweet.
The nested projects solution may well serve me well, but a script would be better.

[Jill Simpson]

Following Chris’s suggestion, yes, I can manually copy regions and markers one at a time, and I found it can be fairly quick.

1. in the timeline, select a REGION (right-click on a flag, then ‘select region’)
2. right-click on the event > open in trimmer
3. click “R”, then re-type region name (or copy the region’s name before opening in trimmer)
4. repeat for all regions. (there is no need to close the trimmer)

Markers can be copied too:
1. in the timeline, click on a MARKER’s flag, then click i, o (inpoint, outpoint).
2. as above (except click “M” instead of “R”).

[Jill Simpson]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for contributing to this discussion. Others who read it later will benefit from your detailed illumination. Alas, it does not help with my problem.

I wrote that I have done almost all of my editing and marking in the timeline, and “now want to open many of my edited and/or marked media clips in the trimmer”. I did not specify that I have (for my various personal and professional projects) about 80 veg files with approximately 2000 regions (truly), and I’ll guess 70 markers.

I want a way to bring the regions and markers from the timeline to the trimmer with one or two clicks. I think John Rofrano’s suggestion of using the .veg project files as nested files is a perfect work-around/solution – but I have not fully tested yet.

(Also, I don’t know why it’s not possible to get the trimmer to indicate edit points, and color-code which sections are in the timeline, and which are not.)

[Jill Simpson]

I think the proper expression is: “Doh!”

Yes – I have some experience with nesting, so I should have understood how I would implement your suggestion.

Thanks – I will try it.