Creating clips for reuse

[JoelMe]

I want to create a clip that uses a few tracks in VS, and then insert that clip in other video projects. What format should I use? I tend to use the Upload>Vimeo settings often (mp4), because Vimeo is a higher quality, but should I change those defaults?

[lata]

Hi Joel

I don’t really understand exactly what you are trying to do.

When we add a video file to the timeline we are adding a virtual clip, a thumbnail linked to the actual file on the hard drive.

We can add the same video file as many times as we like.

First add the video clip to the library, now drag the clip to the timeline, repeat and drag the clip again.

Is that what you are trying to do?

[teknisyan]

I want to create a clip that uses a few tracks in VS, and then insert that clip in other video projects. What format should I use? I tend to use the Upload>Vimeo settings often (mp4), because Vimeo is a higher quality, but should I change those defaults?

You can actually just save the file as VSP, since you can insert a VSP file on a timeline of another project. Though the rendering time of that project in a project may take more time.

[lata]

The process is called “nesting”. Take care if you choose to use this option as it can cause problems.
Personally I do not use Nesting

Abiel, out of interest is this process documented by Corel as a legitimate process or is it just a process we know we can do?

[JoelMe]

It sounds like Nesting is what I'm talking about. I want to make a video clip with VS and then insert that clip in other VS projects.

I just tried dragging a VS project icon into a new project. It works fine. Great, I didn't know I could do that. But you say it is doesn't render well?

[lata]

Hi

You could create a new video file (Share Create Video file) of your project, then add that to the other project rather than adding a VSP.
Re-editing the nested project may cause you problems, also adding more than one VSP to the same project may give problems.

As VSP act similar to a video file you should be able to add to the library, however doing this may also cause errors. It really depends on how you have nested the files?

Other users have said nested projects do not render to the same quality as ones containing video files, I cannot confirm this as I have never run any comparisons.

I guess I am saying if you use the nesting approach, take care?

[teknisyan]

The process is called “nesting”. Take care if you choose to use this option as it can cause problems.
Personally I do not use Nesting

Abiel, out of interest is this process documented by Corel as a legitimate process or is it just a process we know we can do?

It may have been an undocumented features at first then they've carried it over to the rest of the VS versions but as far as documentation is concern, I may need to verify this to the documentation people.