Grouping video tracks

[iHartVideo]

Is there a way to group video tracks to something analgous to a 'submix' or audio bus?

This would be for a fast cutting music video with, say, 10 video tracks.
What I want to do is apply effects 'A', 'B' and 'C' to 5 tracks, then effects 'A', 'D' and 'E' to a different 5 tracks (all 10 tracks are inter-cut, not sequential), thus I can't put all effects 'A' thru 'E' on the Master. (well, I could but I would need to do a lot of keyframing to turn then off/on.. which is what I'm trying to avoid).

So what I was hoping was I could route video tracks 1-5 to submix A which has effects 'A', 'B' and 'C', then route video tracks 6-10 to submix B which has effects 'A', 'D' and 'E'.

Doable?

 

[jedman1]

Ill have a go at this, not exactly sure what you mean, so here go's,
First way would be to apply FX to your source clips in the project media bin, this would work if say you had 10 differently lit, or white balanced, or coloured shots.
If your saying that it is different parts of the one source clip that you want to apply FX to, you could do all your cutting, have all of your project done,
then,
delete all tracks bar the first 5 you want to apply the same FX to,
save with new name eg Group 1
apply your FX.
Open new instance of Vegas,
open the complete project again,
delete all tracks bar your next 5 tracks and apply your FX to them, eg Group 2, and save.
after isolating all your different FX into saved projects,
drag the saved projects back into a new instance of Vegas onto individual tracks,
Nested Vege's.
This way works great because even after you create your final cut, if you find an FX that is a bit out, you can go back to the original instance of Vegas, change the FX, and it is reflected instantly in the nested project.
If you havent done nesting before that may go right over your head, give it a go, it is a great tool.

 

[David Jimerson]

Put the clips you want to have FX group X on one track.

Put the clips you want to have FX group Y on another track.

Apply the FX groups to the tracks.