I have just made a video for a friend (.vf) by deleting about 1.5 hours from a 2 hour group of .avi clips. Is there an easy way to join these together other than dragging them individually?
How do you copy a small segment of a video to a new video?
Sure there is. Just select them all and drag the selected bunch to the timeline. Vegas will join them in the order they appear in the Media tab and even include the default transition between clips.
Hi. You can have multiple copies of the Sony program open.
So, just set up the project you will be pasting to, isolate by splitting - then select - the AVI/vf clip you want to copy and paste onto the new timeline.
I usually select yes for copy media with project also.
If the clip is only in the project media view, then just select/drag to the new timeline.
For copying I didn't consider opening multiple copies, and when I ttempted to copy to a new project it didn't copy my selected segment, because I failed to spit the clip to copy. Thanks.
I think I misstated my question about joining segments. Here's the scenario: 1) Drag 7 .AVIs to the timeline, occupying 2 hours. 2) Edit this down by splitting and deleting segments. 3) Join the segments back together with small overlap. The question was whether there is a way to join the segments without having to individually drag what has become 25 segments spread over a 2 hour timeline to a 25 minute video?
Alternatively, you might consider doing your editing in the Trimmer rather than on the Timeline - this method works well when you are throwing away more than you are keeping, as you are here (25 mins out of 2 hours).
To use this method, load the first of your avi files into the Trimmer, mark the first section you want to keep and then click the button to send it to the Timeline. Then do the same to the next section of the first file you want to keep, until you have identified all the keep sections of the first file. Then load the second avi file into the Trimmer, and continue selecting wanted sections and sending them to the Timeline, until you have done every wanted section of evry file. At this point you will have a continuous sequence of wanted clips on the Timeline. You can now edit this "wanted only" material in the usual way.