exporting from one project to another

[Al Marotta]

Could someone kindly tell me how to export a segment of video from one project to another in vsp 10? If it is listed in the instruction book, please tell me where. I want to edit something in one project (or file, or whatever you call it) and then, using only selected clips, export it to another project.

Thank you,
Al Marotta

[asik1]

very simple,
1- you can render just that segment by setting the preview bar over it

2- if you don't want to render, than save the project and load the VSP it into the second one,
it will load in full so you will have to trim it to get your needed segment.

[Al Marotta]

Hi Asi1,
I want to thank you for your efforts, but unfortunately I remain confused. If I want to take a segment from project B and import it to project A, what are the specific steps I take? When I'm in project B, do I go to share then hit create preview range and then put the preview bar over the segment I want to export. Then what do I do? How do you get this segment from B into A? What has rendering got to do with it? Why would I want, or not want to render? I do not get "load the VSP into the second one".

Thank you,
Al Marotta

[Ken Berry]

I suspect that what Al wants to know is whether it is possible to use Copy in one project and Paste into another project, the same way you can in other programs (not necessarily NLEs). But I don't think that is possible with Video Studio. You can copy and paste within one project, but not between projects.

My own personal problem with his request, though, is that I have only very rarely copied part of one project into another, and probably did so in the most labour intensive way. None of my projects exceed 20 minutes -- a self imposed rule in the interest of retaining viewer interest. But that means for me in practice that if I want a bit of one project to go into another, I simply get the original footage and in effect recreate the scene in the new project. As I say, applying filters etc, can make this labour intensive but since it is very rare for me, this has been acceptable.

The alternatives are as asik has suggested: rendering or nesting. Rendering would IMHO be the easiest, especially if the original project was HD and the high def properties could be maintained in the render. This would give you a new video clip which could simply be inserted in the new project the same as the other video clips in the project. To do it, have the old project open in the timeline. Find the start of the scene you want to copy and then drag the left hand yellow marker below the preview screen to that point. See my attached image and what the red arrow is pointing at. Then find the end part and drag the right hand yellow marker to that point. Then go to Share, select your output format and properties, give it a name and render.

The other alternative is nesting the VSP of the first project into the second project. Doing so is simple. While a VSP file is only a text file, for the purposes of editing, it can be treated the same way as a video file. With the second project in the timeline, you simply insert the first VSP where you want it in the timeline of the second project. You can open it there and it's editable. The problem of course is that now you have the whole of the first project and you only want a bit of it. So quite literally, with it open, you have dismantle the project and delete the bits you don't want. That simply involves highlight and delete. Then you can get on with the second project and render the whole thing into a new final video. This could also be quite time consuming, and that's why I suspect rendering would in most cases be the better option.