Copy Paste 1 project to another?

[sealilly]

Hey All, so i created 4 separate projects from a concert. There were 4 pianists and I created 1 project for each. Now I am trying to create one video with all. I create a new project and the .VSP files for each. They are showing on just the main timeline, but all the edits/overlays/texts/transitions are there. I thought I was all set, but VS keeps crashing.

I would like to try creating this by copying and pasting each project to a single new project, but with all the different tracks. I just cant see a way to do this.

I know I could render each video and combine, but I was concerned with quality loss by rendering twice. The client only wants a single video file with all 4 performances.

Any thoughts or suggestions? (I did try the initial plan on differant laptop with same result)

VSP Ultimate 2018.

[remmyhi]

The way I do it is to add the media to the Library first, then drag and drop to the timeline.
File --> Add media file to Library --> Insert Video.

[sealilly]

YES! Thank you soo much

[Davidk]

The last 5 versions (from X9 onwards, and possibly earlier but I don't have them installed now) all have a multi-camera editor (MCE) feature. MCE is intended for situations where multiple cameras are recording the same event but from different angles and distances, like an interview or presentation.
MCE allows you to select for input and then combine multiple camera and sound recordings into a single project file. A choice of audio or video clip sound synchronisation is available, and there is a tutorial on the corel VS website, and several on YT. Once you have the camera choices sync'd in, an OK puts the result into the VS gallery as an icon. That gallery item can be dragged on the timeline and it expands there as a single VSP reflecting the MCE effort. From there, applying transitions, effects etc per normal, and render gives a single video output of the entire effort.
Much easier than doing this by hand, but takes a bit of getting used to. Have you tried it???

[lata]

Hi sealily
For this particular issue you should use the process described by remmyhi
It’s a process called Nesting, used to be documented for earlier versions, but I doubt you will find any reference in the help files.

Using MCE is NOT the way to go for your VSP files

You have 4 vsp files which can be imported to the library, create a new library page for these files
Start a new project
Dragging the VSP clips to the top timeline will drop the contents as individual clips, read the Tool Tip
Hold Shift to drop the vsp as a single clip / flattened
Repeat for the other vsp files.
I don’t know which option is appropriate, but you can create two projects, one flattened and one expanded to see which you prefer.

[sealilly]

MCE is intended for situations where multiple cameras are recording the same event but from different angles and distances, like an interview or presentation.
Much easier than doing this by hand, but takes a bit of getting used to. Have you tried it???

I have a different thread going about MCE NOT working for me:

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