Copying, cutting and pasting issue

[BuddyB]

I've boogered a section of a movie I'm working on. I've gone to the basic frames and lengthened the event, but that section is no longer there. So, brilliant me, I opened an older version of the movie, did 2 splits to chop that section out did a cut, then opened the current movie and the paste function was not available to me. I'm presuming that you can only move an event in the same movie your working on..or I'm flat missing something. I guess the question is if you want a section of one movie into another movie is there a process I'm missing?
Thanks, BuddyB

[Steve Grisetti]

I believe, in order to cut and paste between projects, you must have both projects open at the same time.

To do that, you have to open the program twice (which creates two "instances" of the program), one of which you use to open one project, the other of which you use to open the other.

BTW, I'm currently working on a course for Lynda.com for Vegas Pro (which is about 95% applicable also to Movie Studio). I'll be recording it in May with likely a summer release. Hope you'll keep your eye out for it!

Meantime, I don't know if you're using Vegas Pro or Movie Studio -- but have you checked out our Movie Studio 12 book? It offers answers to a lot of questions like the one you just asked. (We also have books on Vegas Movie Studio 10 and 11.)
http://Muvipix.com/sms12.php

[BuddyB]

I will be buying the book soon. Just waiting for payday. Thanks for the input. I'm using Movie Studio HD 10.

[RJ Johnston]

There is an "internal" preferences setting that will allow you to copy from one project to another, even in another instance of Vegas.

"Empty clipboard when closing projects" is the setting.

To get to the Internal settings you have to hold down the shift key when you click on the menu item "Options > Preferences." That will expose the "Internal" tab, which you need to select. Enter "clip" (without the quotes) in the search box at the bottom of the tab to narrow the items down to only those with "clipboard" in the description. You can change the setting from TRUE to FALSE by typing it in.

(Vegas Pro 12).