[Paul Berk]

Open two instances of Vegas.
Open veg number one in instance one.
Change to instance two of Vegas.
Open veg number two. Select All. (Ctrl-A).. Copy. (Ctrl-C).
Change back to instance one .. place your timeline cursor at the end of the timeline. PASTE (Ctrl-V).
You should now have both Veg files on the same timeline.
Do a “save as” to create a new combined veg file.

Basically you copy and past between instances of Vegas.
Nesting works too — but might be more complicate to explain.

Another way is to render to MXF files and combine that way but still preserve the orignal Veg files to make edits and then re-render the MXF files.

Many ways to do this.

[Paul Berk]

Do you possibly have an FX applied to the top track that could cause the warping? Looks like an FX.

Can you reproduce this in other veg files — other timelines? Or is this just happening on this timeline?

[Paul Berk]

If I understand what you want, use Track Motion.

[Paul Berk]

Cool. I’ve never found any use for Edit Details — but for this problem it does the job. It might be nice to hear how others find it useful otherwise.

I think I see what the OP is doing here. Likely what’s wanted is to divide up the events to come out to a certain time. So if the number of events is known and the desired length is known, then it’s a math problem to what length each event can be if they are divided up evenly.

[Paul Berk]

THere is a way to count the “events” on the timeline quickly. Place your timeline cursor at the beginning of the timeline. Count one. Then do CTRL-ALT-RIGHT ARROW — Count TWO .. and so on down the line .. you can go very quickly .. CTRL-ALT-RIGHT ARROW moves you to the next event.

This may not be what you want — and maybe there is a script to do this .. but I’m not aware of any place Vegas stores or shows you the number of events on the timeline, if that’s what you meant.

[Paul Berk]

Thanks Ed. I know little about scripting for Vegas so your example was educational .. The last script you posted seems to work fine if the cursor position is set at the beginning of the selection, but does not work when the cursor is at the end of the selection.

At least for me, (maybe I’m doing something wrong) if the cursor position is at the end of the selection, then instead of a larger selection ( 15 seconds longer on each side) you get a smaller selection, 15 seconds less on each side.

Is there a way, I wonder, to force the cursor position to the beginning of the selection in the script? Just wondering, I have no burning need for this script.

[Paul Berk]

Save your current windows layout — then change it to the default layout. Is track motion still missing using the default windows layout.

view/windows layouts/default layout

[Paul Berk]

Check this thread on Sony’s Vegas Forum .. Generally my impression is unless you use dual Xeons, stick with the fastest i7 you can afford — and use an AMD R9 graphics card for GPU. But I’m not familiar with the E5-1650 V3 ..

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?forumid=4&messageid=938859

[Paul Berk]

I’m using an i7-3930K .. very happy with the 6 core for Vegas. I’d go with the newer i7-5930K .. good choice.

[Paul Berk]

Sounds like you lost the Track Motion window somewhere. Check all your floating windows.