• VEGAS Pro

  selecting current clip

  Posted by Gilles Gagnon on March 14, 2011 at 8:23 pm

  When reviewing footage using JKL, is there a kbd shortcut to select the clip currently under the timeline indicator? this would prevent me to have to reach for the mouse.

  if so, what are the kbd cmds to go to the prev/next clip?

  Thanks!
  G

  Gilles

  Alfredo Rodriguez replied 10 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
• 6 Replies

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  Danny Hays

  March 15, 2011 at 12:40 am

  On your numaric keypad, with num lock on, 9 will step ahead on the timeline event by event where 7 will do the reverse. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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  Stephen Mann

  March 15, 2011 at 2:33 am

  Media on the timeline are events, not clips.

  I use JKL editing all the time, but when you say that you want the event under the cursor selected – which one?

  It’s not unusual for me to have 20- to 30-tracks on my timeline, so using the mouse to select a specific event is the only method available.

  Steve Mann

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Gilles Gagnon

  March 16, 2011 at 12:42 pm

  Thanks Danny and Stephen, this helps.

  Good tip Danny.

  I see what you mean Stephen. What I find confusing/awkward is that when I use JKL, and say, I want to do a “split” at the current location, I have to reach for the mouse and click on the current-time-indicator, then hit “s”. When doing lots of these, it’s somewhat inefficient.

  Cheers,
  G

  Gilles
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  Stephen Mann

  March 16, 2011 at 3:49 pm

  But, again, which event? Sometimes I want to split just one event, sometimes I want to split them all.

  I suppose that you could write a script to split all events at the cursor position. Then you can assign a hotkey to run that script.

  Steve Mann

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Gilles Gagnon

  March 16, 2011 at 3:54 pm

  Yes, I meant all of them.

  no sweat, I’ll continue to “click”… no big deal 🙂
  G

  Gilles
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  Alfredo Rodriguez

  August 17, 2015 at 7:46 am

  I was wondering the same thing. Premiere Pro has this shortcut key, but Vegas Pro doesn’t seem to have it. If it does, the feature should assume you are referring to the track which has focus. So if I have 10 tracks but am currently editing an event on track 7, then when I press my shortcut key to “select event which is under the current time indicator”, Vegas would assume you want to select the event under the CTI which is on track 7.

  I love working with keyboard shortcuts because it’s faster…for the same reason….why pick up the mouse when you are cruising along just fine with the keyboard?

  Maybe a script can be programmed with Vegasaur?

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