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fldave wrote on 7/25/2006, 6:41 PM
Nested veg files offer a tool that opens up creativity. I've had about 5 layers of nested vegs (veg calling veg calling veg...) Gets complicated, but the flexibility is cool.

Like an ever-changing jack-o-lantern face...
bakerbud9 wrote on 7/26/2006, 8:43 AM
Yes, I *love* this feature.

I used to do long-format (feature-length) editing, and its great for that type of work. You can make each scene a separate vegas clip and then have one "master" timeline that loads all the scenes. This makes it very easy to rearrange and manage scenes at a high-level. I begged and begged and begged for many releases for Sony (well, back then they were still Sonic Foundry) to add this feature. Finally the did!

Its been a while since I've done a feature-length project, but I still continue to use the nested veg files for complex compositing even on very short projects.

An essental feature... so glad they finally added it.
mjroddy wrote on 7/26/2006, 9:43 AM
I tried using Nests, but find there are a few problems:
first one I noticed is that things change their lumanance! Weird! I had composited a rotating wire-frame of a globe behind a speaker. It looked GREAT in the original project. I opened that up in a new Master Project and the globe ends up getting screened way back. It's a neet effect, though. Only the top and bottom of the globe shine and the center is dark! But it's not what the client wants, so I'll have to now render out those segments as a DV AVI and bring them in like that. But it makes me wonder what's going on.

Also, I find that as I render out to a single file or a MPG2 for DVDA3, it crashes about 3 out of 7 times! Highly frustrating.

I'm working on dual Opturon 270s with 2 gig of ram and some lightning drives under XP Pro - Vegas 6.0d.
Nat wrote on 7/26/2006, 9:54 AM
Did you report it to Sony ?
mjroddy wrote on 7/28/2006, 8:16 PM
No.... I usually start here. In fact, I don't think I've ever written to Sony. It's a good idea. Thanks! No one else is chiming in, so it sounds like I may be the only one with that problem.

Thanks again.