"Merge clips" in Sony Vegas

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could answer this: As one is wont to do, I and my friend, a professional editor in cinema and broadcasting, were comparing NLE's the other day. He's working in a (digital) film production at the moment and basically his job so far has been to take clips and sync them to audio to prepare for the editing itself. He asked me if you could do a thing like that in Vegas (that is, sync image and audio in the media pool, not on the timeline itself). He's been using FCP but was looking into doing it on a PC and had found out that this was not possible in Premiere. Although I've used Vegas extensively for the last 5-6 years, I couldn't really find an answer to this, and searching through the manual, the help, the forums here or Google didn't help (could be that I searched for the wrong keywords). This feature, "Merge Clips", in FCP is better explained here:



. Anyone?

Thank you for the answer, Steve. No, it's not really a question of me looking pro as it's not something I need to do, it's just that I'd like to be able to give my friend an answer to this (and possibly get him to use Vegas) :). I can't really explain it better than it is explained in the youtube video, as I'm not really knowledgeable about FCP at all. As I understand it, he needs to prepare all the shots from a days shooting and sync all relevant audio (from the camera, boom mike, etc) to the relevant video clip, and when he closes the file the info is still there, so when the editor eventually starts to edit the movie he can just start editing and doesn't have to start with syncing audio. So, a time saver basically, but it seemed an important selling point to my friend. (And I used "clips" because the feature is called "Merge Clips" in FCP, so didn't have a better word for, english not being my first language an all that.) Hope that clears it a bit, but I'm basically trying to explain something I've never used myself in a language I don't use every day...

I shoot double system and use VP9, my workflow has been to synch with Plural Eyes and save the file as a "synchmaster" veg. Then nest the synchmaster into another veg called edit master. I do this so I can create "clips" in the trimmer to break up my synched file and make sure the audio does not revert to the poor quality camera audio. I had problems with this in the past and simply nesting the synched file created a permanent "lock" with the new audio tracks.

Malcolm
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