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Quick clipping using in/out
I am looking for a faster process for clipping events using in/out. Currently my process is:
Go to in point
Press I to create in point
Go to out point
Press O to create out point
Select loop region
Press S to split loop region
Delete unwanted area before and after loop region…Does anyone know of a better (faster) more efficient process?
Dave Affholter
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Which version of Vegas do you have?
Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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it would help if I could select the loop region
then reset the events beginning and end points to the loop region in/out points.Does anyone know how to make that happen?
Dave Affholter
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There’s usually at least two ways to do anything in Vegas. Splitting events probably has ten methods, and I think that you selected the most difficult one.
I can’t tell from your message if you are editing on the timeline or the trimmer. I don’t use the trimmer because it adds extra steps but it’s there for people who learned editing on a primitive preview-based system. I do all my editing on the timeline but I can’t recall anytime in the past ten years that I’ve used the in/out method. It just seems to be more work than necessary. Move the cursor to the “in” point of the event and hit S and delete the unwanted part. Move the cursor to the “out” point and hit S and delete the unwanted part. Or create a region between your “in” and “out” points and hit S and the event is split at start and end of the region on the selected track. (If no track is selected then all events are split). Then you can delete the unwanted parts. Or if the event is short enough, you can just drag the start to the “In” point and the end to the “out” point.
Steve Mann
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OK thanks Steve. I worked on it this afternoon and came up with a new way that cut out some steps.
Set In and out points
Press R for region (repeat)
Use vegasaurs “keep inside region” function to delete all unwanted extras.
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Like Stephan I often don’t use the trimmer but if that is what you are using then, after the ‘I’ and ‘O’ shortcuts, another keyboard shortcut is ‘A’ which adds the selected region of the clip to the timeline as an event at the point where your cursor is.
If you are editing on the timeline then, after selecting the portion of the event you wish to keep, right click it and select ‘Trim’ or simply hit ‘control T’.
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That’s what I needed Phil thanks. The trim option on the timeline has sped up my process considerably.
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