Merging Tracks in Vegas...

[Steven Bills]

I was recently working on a project in Vegas 7, compositing, adding sound effects, visual effects, etc..., and when I was done, I had about 15 video tracks, and 6 audio tracks. Those were a pain to keep together, if you know what I mean.

My question is this: Is it possible to merge two or more video/audio tracks together? (like merging layers in Photoshop)

Any help would be appreciated.

SB

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

Yes, more or less. It's called "Render to New Track.
This renders a new track of your two 'layers' but once they're rendered, they're rendered, just like layers in Photoshop, so it's generally a good idea to not throw away the content used to create the render to new.
CTRL+M is the key command, or you can select Render to New Track from the Tools Menu.
Another option is to use nested veg files.

[Steven Bills]

So, do I just select the two (or more) tracks and do a Ctrl+M? And then delete the two or more tracks that were just rendered and add the rendered stuff on top?

Thanks,

SB

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

The rendered file will create its own new track. You can delete the media that was used to create the new track from the timeline; my practice is to save the veg with the new tracks as a different filename so I can always go back to where I was.