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Clips not snapping together – Gaps in between.
I am using Vegas 11 with snapping turned on. When I drag a bunch of clips (mov from Canon 5D Mark II) onto the Vegas timeline, it leaves gaps in between some of the clips. When I try to “snap” them together it overlaps the clips by a fraction of a second. It will not connect the clips right next to one another. What’s going on? Thanks!
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In the Vegas Preferences menu under the Editing Tab, do you have the option checked to “Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added”?
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Make sure your project properties (fps etc.) match the properties of your video files.
Vegasaur | Film grain overlays | Magic Bullet Looks presets | Film Looks for Vegas Pro
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That is called Quantize to Frames Jason.
What you need to do is always have this option
selected at the start off all your editing.
Go to Options and select Quantize to Frames (Alt+F8)
You can do a quick read up on it in the Help contents.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I found with a different Canon camera that clips would not be a whole number of (Vegas) frames long. That would cause a problem when snapping to frame boundaries on import, which would leave fractional-frame gaps between clips (Vegas Movie Studio 10 & 11). I don’t know why the fractional last frames, but I found it easiest to turn off snapping during importing multiple clips (so no gaps) and then with ripple on, use a key shortcut sequence to jump to the end of each clip and trim it, discarding the fractional frames(maybe it was ‘]’ and ‘0’?) without leaving any gaps.
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[Bill Burnette] “…use a key shortcut sequence to jump to the end of each clip…”
The 7 and 9 keys on the numeric keypad will make the cursor jump to ether the beginning or end of an event (what Vegas calls a clip).
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Am I overlooking the obvious here? I don’t use a DSLR for video work, but if I recall, the camera shoots 2Gb files (NTFS). Is this what the OP is dragging into the Vegas timeline? Isn’t there a program that came with the camera to combine those short clips into one video file for editing?
As I said, I don’t shoot video with a DSLR, but just wondering if this is the case here?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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