A/B Roll Editing mode in Vegas Pro 12

[Roger Bansemer]

I don’t like that A/B mode. I’m always hitting some unknown key be accident and making it appear.
Supposedly the #5 key is works but just try the escape key.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Graham Bernard]

I agree with Roger.

G

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[Bruce Miller]

I ended up moving the clips to a fresh track and deleting the offending AB video track.

Definitely something buggy.

Thanks,
Bruce

[Norman Black]

Right click in the track header and choose, Expand track layers.
If not expanded it will expand.
If already expanded, a check mark will be on the menu item and selecting will collapse the layers.

The numeric 5 key, event edge and such are used with expanded edit mode in and out.

[Bruce Miller]

Thanks. This is now the only place on the Internet where this secret information resides.

Bruce

[Stephen Mann]

I know of no one who uses the AB mode – I suspect it’s there to give a familiar UI to editors moving from ancient platforms.

Entering and reversing the mode are explained in the help file, but the step you may have missed is to select an event first. It may be a bug but after entering the expanded A-B mode, one of the events is highlighted as if it’s selected, but you need to click on it again to select it.

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

[Norman Black]

[Bruce Miller] “hanks. This is now the only place on the Internet where this secret information resides.”

My info came from the Vegas help file.

Bring up the help file.
In the index tab enter, A/B.
You now have a list of topics. The first one talks about A/B roll editing (track layers).
Open that help topic, and expand the track layers item.
The info is there.

I have “enabled” things in the past by accidentally hitting some keyboard shortcut I don’t know about. Fat fingering as I call it.
I searched the keyboard shortcut help page and did not find anything with a quick cursory search. I searched that help page for layer, A/B, expand, collapse.

As a new Vegas user I have found that the help file is pretty complete but not always easy to find info as the terminology I used in a search was not the exact term Vegas used.

[Kent Frost]

Real easy to way to get both in and out of A/B mode (which is why it’s so easy to find yourself there in the first place):

Double click the left edge of your clip in the timeline. That’ll put you into A/B. Don’t want that? Double click it again. Boom.