Nested Timelines

You may have a section of a timeline edited and then decide that you'd like that section to be treated as just one event (or, more precisely, one audio and one video event that are grouped together) rather than multiple components. Then you can create a Nested Timeline.

Nested Timelines leverage the existing nested projects capabilities. Nested timelines are technically just nested projects, but with a big improvement: To edit it, you don't have to open it in a separate instance of VEGAS Pro, you can switch back and forth between the nested project and the parent project all in one instance.

When you create a nested timeline, you are actually creating another project. That project can be treated as a nest, or worked on individually and the parent project updates automatically.

To create a new nested timeline:

  1. Select one or more sequential events from one or more tracks and click the Create Nested Timeline button from the Transport and Editing toolbar.

    NOTE If haven't already saved your (parent) project, you will be prompted to save it now.

  2. You will be prompted to save the nested timeline, too.

    NOTE Note that the proposed name is the name of the parent project + underscore + "Untitled Timeline" rather than "Untitled" for easy identification.

  3. Creating the nested timeline navigates you into the new timeline that contains the previously selected events only.

  4. You could do further editing in this timeline now, it will behave exactly like the parent timeline. But since the very purpose of the action was to use the arrangement of these events as a whole, you will want to return to the parent project now.

    To navigate back to a nested timeline's parent timeline, click the Open Parent Timeline button from the Transport and Editing toolbar.

  5. Back in the parent timeline, the nested timeline will appear on the parent timeline as a grouped audio and video event pair that replace the original events that were used to create the nested timeline.

    The nested timeline event length will initially be of the length of the nested timeline when it was created.

  6. The nested timeline is an event like any other event in the timeline and can be edited, moved, duplicated and so on.

  7. To open the nested timeline again to change something inside the nested timeline click the Open Nested Timeline button from the Transport and Editing toolbar (or choose the command from the nested timeline event's context menu).