How to edit long video clips in Sony Vegas

This article explains how to save time when video editing long video clips on the Sony Vegas timeline.

The conventional way of editing long video clips on the Sony Vegas timeline.

One way, probably the conventional way, of editing long video clips on the Vegas timeline is to import them into the same timeline as all of the other video clips.
The problem with this is, these long video clips can use up the entire screen width of the timeline.
You have to move all of the other video clips along the timeline to make space for these long video clips, and when you have finished editing these long clips you have to move all of the other clips back to near their original places.
This is pretty boring and time consuming.

A more efficient way of editing long video clips on the Sony Vegas timeline.

The solution is to avoid placing these long video clips on the timeline in the first place.
It’s far easier to open another instance of Vegas and edit them in this other instance of Vegas.
You can then copy or cut and paste them back into the timeline with all of the other video clips.
In my view it’s better to copy them rather than cut and paste them, and in part 2 of How to edit long video clips in Sony Vegas I explain why.