cleaning up tons of (mostly junk) footage… any tips?

[Steve Rhoden]

I cant figure out what you mean.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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[Jeff Schroeder]

Try:

If auto-ripple is off then use ctrl-shift-F, this will auto ripple the blank space created by the deleted material. Then hit the “\” key and your cursor should be in the center of the timeline.

I hope this is what you meant.

Jeff

2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64

[Stephen Mann]

[Steve Rhoden] “I cant figure out what you mean.”

Andy means “Events”.

Andy – all media on the timeline are “Events”, not “Clips”.

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

[John Rofrano]

You could also do this in the trimmer windows (which is designed for this) and then just add the sections you want to the timeline or make subclips of them to place in the media bins.

~jr

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[Stephen Crye]

HI;

Jeff, I’ve lived with this same annoyance for years, and also wondered about “ripple” … auto, manual, button-shift or whatever…. ;-p .

Are you saying that this ripple thing of which you speak can set rid of sections of blankness on the time-line? In other words, save me from dragging little sections of events for miles and miles to the right and left?

Finally, why the heck is it named “ripple?” That has bothered me for a long time. Kind of made me afraid of it – makes me think it is something that will produce a water-splash ripple effect.

heh .

steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[John Rofrano]

[Stephen Crye] “Finally, why the heck is it named “ripple?””

Probably because it “ripples” the changes across the timeline to compensate. So if you remove 5 seconds from one event, it will “ripple” those 5 seconds to the right to move all events left by the same amount. It’s called the same thing in other NLE’s so it’s a standard term for the behavior.

~jr

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[Jeff Schroeder]

I always use manual ripple, by using the keystrokes. If I turn on auto-ripple, I always mess up my timeline somehow. Play with it.

Jeff

2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64

[Stephen Crye]

Hmmmm…

Still confused.

Here’s a workflow that happens to me quite often, usually with audio tracks, but the same principal can apply to video tracks.

I have 30 minutes or so of audio, mostly quiet passages, but there are snatches of conversation or other sounds I want to keep. I look through the event, and when I see a little peak of sound, I split the event on either side of the peak, isolating it from the quiet bits to ether side. When I have found all the parts I want to keep, I then go back and delete all the “quiet” bits I want to throw away.

Now I have a bunch of events on the timeline that are separated by random lengths of nothingness. To get all the events to “touch”, what I have been doing is (starting from the far right side of the timeline):

grabbing an event, dragging it until it touches the next event to its left, then shift-selecting to get them to “stick” in a group, drag that group to the left, repeat … until I am ready to scream from the repetitive frustration!

I dream of a way to tell Vegas : ” Ok for this range of events in the timeline, get rid of any empty space and squeeze all the events together”.

Can ripple do this for me? If not, is there another method?

Thanks!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidea FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Jeff Schroeder]

Yes. After you press the delete key, press the ctrl-shift-f keys and the space goes away. To find your current position press the “” key and Vegas will re-center it.

Jeff

2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64

[Andy Abulafia]

thanks for all the tips and great info everyone 🙂
Appreciate the effort to educate me!

to be honest, the thing that i think is perfect for me is is Delete, Shift Ctl F. that’ll keep me going for a while

I think Media Studio pro had a “Search for Empty Timeslots” – and a Delete All function so you could very easily get rid of those gaps.

cheers

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