Sony Vegas 8 Pro Question - How to crop entire movie with multiple videos?

[Mysteriouskk]

I know you can crop each video one by one, but is there a way to crop multiple video streams at once all at the same crop size? or do I have to export the video and combine them all first, and then crop the one video?

[jdachik]

This would still be cropping them all individually, but you could save the crop size as a preset, and then apply it to each video. It would take far less time than setting all the crop settings manually each time.

[guns1inger]

Or save the project, open a new project and import the first project (.veg) to the timeline. Any effects you now apply are applied across the whole of the original project.

[GeorgeW]

You could use a Cookie Cutter on the Video Bus track...

Regards,
George

[Stiiv]

For various projects, I've used all three methods mentioned above...George's "cookie cutter" solution is the "quickest & dirtiest" one, which, of course, I like. Depending on other factors (added effects, envelopes, etc.), any of the three methods will work for you...as always, balance out the quality/filesize/rendering time factors to find the best method for your purposes.