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Rain Mooder wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:34 PM
Not really. A number of us were hoping for this kind of functionality, some
since 3.0, but it's not part of the 5.0 release and isn't likely to be. Maybe
in Vegas 6.0 in a year or two.

Around the forum we call this feature "nested timelines" or something
like that. This is not the same as "nested layers" which is a new compositing
feature in 5.0.

I do lots of multi-camera "scenes" that I edit in there own veg files until
each one is perfect and then I copy and paste into a main file to make
a "massive timeline" that is 8 hours long and has several thousand events...

It's a mess. But it's what Vegas lets us do.
lba1214 wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:37 PM
I'v tried copy and paste but I can't get that to work either. I highlight the layers in file a, copy and then switch to file b but past is not available. Am I doing something wrong?
busterkeaton wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:41 PM
You cand break a project into smaller sections and render them individually and then bring the rendered files back together.

That is not nested timelines, but since you can work with mulitple version of Vegas at the same time, you can find some workflow efficiencies using this method.
lba1214 wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:43 PM
That's my question. How do you bring them back together?
lba1214 wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:45 PM
Render as AVI and then start a master timeline?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:46 PM
You must highlight the clips (events) and copy those rather than the layers (tracks).
lba1214 wrote on 4/28/2004, 3:52 PM
Tried it. Worked like a charm. I didn't realize you had to have two sessions of Vegas up. Though they would go to the clipboard. Thanks.
johnmeyer wrote on 4/28/2004, 5:38 PM
Two things you can do:

1. Start more than one copy of Vegas (you just go back to the Vegas icon, double-click on it, and now you have two copies running). You can copy/paste events from a project in one copy of Vegas to another copy. If you select all the events in a project, you can paste them all at once to another project. All the settings for each event will be copied. Unfortunately, none of the track settings are copied, nor can they be copied, so this idea has some limitations.

2. Follow busterkeaton's advice. For each project, use Render As to render the entire project to an AVI file. Do this for each and every project. Then, start a new project, and put onto the timeline each AVI file that you rendered. In essence, you are just using Vegas to combine the AVI files together. You can either do another render into one big AVI file (there is zero change to the files when doing this: the bits are just copied), or you can render to MPEG/AC3 if you are going to DVD; or you can use the "Print Video to DV Tape" in the tools menu to send the result directly to tape without doing anything further.

Option 2 actually works pretty well for many projects. However, the reason so many people want "nested timelines" is that, using the workflow outlined in option 2 above, you cannot interactively make small changes to just a part of your project without a lot of manual labor (re-render the AVI file, then go to the project that contains the collection of AVI files and make adjustments (if the length has changed).