Nested Projects with 5.1 Audio

[Norm Sanders]

Just curious if anyone's ever experienced with this:

Taking a project that's got a 5.1 mix, then nesting it into another project with 5.1. Since the nexted project is only one one audio track, if you were to now render it all out, will you still hear all the individual keyframed sound movements from the original 5.1 nested project?

I'm asking because I've got a project that's COMPLETELY done, however just realized we'd like to slip something into the middle of it. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a concern, but all of the keyframes I've done for FX on the video bus track don't automatically follow the clips/events ... so I'm fearful of messing anything up by moving events.

A fix for this, I'm hoping, is to bring the project into a new one, then split the nested project ... so technically I'm not actually moving events vs. keyframes in the video bus ... just splitting it & inserting inside another/new project.

But ... will the 5.1 mix from the original still come through?

[JohnH]

I think if what you're asking is if a 5.1 projected nested within another 5.1 project retains all the channels - no, as far as I know in the latest version of Vegas the nested project is downmixed to stereo, but the help section in Vegas is a little vague about this issue so it can be rather confusing. I asked this question here before and didn't get any better response but if someone else knows different than I'd gladly be proven wrong.

I had this problem with a long project in Vegas not too long ago and had to resort to just nesting the video and exporting the project 5.1 audio individually by outputting 6 mono wavs from the original sequence and then bringing it into the master project that way, just mapping each track to an individual channel. I could've opened up another version of Vegas and copy/pasted all the material that way but it would've been quiet a task given the complexity of my sound design.

[Norm Sanders]

Thanks anyway ... I hadn't heard from anyone on this, so I just figured a work around vs. trying to test it out & wasting precious time on it that I can't afford right now.

Would be nice to know if anyone else has had success doing this, however.