[Paul Berk]

I’d use Track Motion to do this. If you don’t understand Track Motion, there are many free tutorial videos on YouTube to help you.

[Paul Berk]

I’d open a second instance of Vegas and copy all my highlight events to that .. It’s easy to highlight multiple events on a Vegas timeline and copy and then paste into the new timeline in the new instance of Vegas.

[Paul Berk]

It should be easy to put each video event on the timeline in the order they were shot but not so easy to sync each of these events to the audio track from the DJ. It can be done by hand by someone skilled enough to do it. PluralEyes would help (if the live track audio is clear enough for PluralEyes to match up the waveforms) but with 100 events to sync up, it might not be the complete answer either. Often, you don’t need a particular shot to sync exactly anyway, as long as “looks” like it syncs.

I don’t know of any “magic” way to do this if you stopped and started your camera while shooting the dance into a 100 different shots. If you had made it one long camera take where you didn’t stop the camera between shots it would have been a cinch.

[Paul Berk]

In the same folder you were saving you .veg files, there should be a .veg.bak file. Try that.

[Paul Berk]

I can’t find a way in Vegas to change all the “Cross-Fade TYPES” in an existing .veg file in one operation ( maybe if Vegasaur won’t do this, perhaps Excalibur does??)

… but regards changing the default for overlaps (or Cross Fades, or Dissolves as we use to call them), this can be done (in a limited way) by folks who know how to use the Internal preferences ..

Use the eDefEnvVideoASRType setting for video track fades.
Change the value to your preference from the table below.

2 = fast log
1 = linear
-2 = slow log
4 = smooth cubic
-4 = sharp cubic

Looks to me like this setting will only accept the values above, despite there being 25 possible transition overlap types for a cross fade.

Personally I don’t see much use in changing the default, but maybe some folks do.

[Paul Berk]

First you just cut to a black screen .. the use the “slide” transition.

[Paul Berk]

can you upload one still frame of each, the scratches and the other video track that will show through the scratches?

It will be easy to explain once we see the images you are working with.

[Paul Berk]

Thanks Graham .. downloaded and installed without issue.

[Paul Berk]

>>Every time I move the pin in Event Pan/Crop, it lags like crazy.

What do you mean by “the pin” ?

[Paul Berk]

There is a lot to learn regarding effects in Vegas, both audio and video. You can increase the volume for an entire track in many different ways. Using the Track Effects is a bit complicated as you must understand the plug-in chain and where to find the Volume effect. Many other audio effects include volume, like Track Compressor (which I prefer to use as it is already there by default on every audio track). You also can use the Master Audio bus . As I said, the use of FX is complicated. There are many good tutorials on YouTube regarding audio FX that are worthwhile.

Another thing might be to try to understand how to “normalize” the audio on an event or multiple events.

But the easy way, in your case, might be to just raise the Track Volume.