System information
The file is added to the Project Media window and an event is created where you drop the project in the
timeline or at the cursor position before you opened the Import Media dialog.
Open a media file
1. From the File menu, choose Open. The Open dialog box is displayed.
2. Choose the folder where the file you want to open is stored:
n Choose a drive and folder from the Look in drop-down list.
n Choose a folder from the Recent drop-down list to quickly select a folder from which you
have previously opened files.
3. Select a file in the browse window or type a name in the File name box. Detailed information about
the selected file appears at the bottom of the dialog box.
To limit the files displayed in the dialog, choose a file type from the Files of Type drop-down
list or enter *. and an extension in the File name box. For example, enter *.wav to display all
wave files in the current folder, or enter *guitar*.wav to display all wave files that have the word
guitar in the file name.
4. Click Open.
5. The file is added to the Project Media window and an event is created. The event is created at the
cursor position in the selected track, or a new track will be created if no tracks of the appropriate
type exist. For example, if your current project contains three audio tracks when you open an AVI
file, a video track will be created for the AVI.
Opening a still-image sequence
If you've exported a video clip as a still-image sequence using another application (a 3D-rendering
application, for example), you can add the sequence to the Vegas Pro timeline as a single event.
1. From the File menu, choose Open. The Open dialog box is displayed.
2. Choose the folder where the sequence you want to open is stored:
n Choose a drive and folder from the Look in drop-down list.
n Choose a folder from the Recent drop-down list to quickly select a folder from which you
have previously opened files.
3. Select the first image in the sequence (or the image you want to use to start the event). Detailed
information about the selected file appears at the bottom of the dialog box.
4. Select the Open still-image sequence check box.
5. In the Range box, enter the number of the last image you want to open. For example, if you'd
selected AnimationOne_00001.tga in step 3, you could enter 120 in this box to create a new event
using AnimationOne_00001.tga to AnimationOne_00120.tga.
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