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

[Stephen Crye]

Thanks, Jeff;

Stand by, will test this!

Allowing myself a glimmer of hope.

One quick question – can this be isolated to a single track? Or must I have a separate project to prevent deadly unintended ripple?

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]

ctrl-shift-f is the strongest of the ripple functions, shift-f and just ‘f’ are less powerful. They are best explained in the help file.

Jeff

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

[John Rofrano]

You can also set all of these using the Ripple Edit button so that you don’t have to remember what each key combination does.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Stephen Crye]

Ok…

I’m still confused. I have probably not explained what I’d like to accomplish clearly. I have read everything in the help sections for ripple, and have been testing, but I suspect that what I want is not possible.

I’m not looking for a way to ripple after (or during) the deletion of an event.

Instead, I want a way to take a section of time, and squeeze together all non-blank events in the section so that they are touching.

It seems as if ripple only works for the last event that was deleted. I am pleased that it will allow me to delete “blank” sections of the timeline after I click-drag to select that blank section, but I can’t figure out a way to select multiple blank sections of the timeline.

Am I asking for the impossible?

Steve

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

[Mike Kujbida]

Do you have Excalibur? It has a gap/overlap tool that will let you create gaps, create overlaps, or change the timecode to “zero” and make them all cuts.
https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/home.php

[John Rofrano]

VASST Ultimate S Pro will allow you to close the gaps as well (and a whole lot more). If you don’t have a productivity plug-in like Ultimate S Pro or Excalibur you really should look into buying one. They will save you hours, and hours of editing time.

In the interest of full disclosure, I’m one of the authors of Ultimate S Pro (in case you didn’t know). 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Stephen Crye]

Thanks John, I’ll consider Ultimate. After all, I would be able to get tech support from you here on the Cow …. heh 😉

Right now I’m pretty happy just finally using that ripple thing … it is way better than what I was doing before!

Steve

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

[John Rofrano]

[Stephen Crye] ” After all, I would be able to get tech support from you here on the Cow …. heh ;-)”

Yes, and if you send an email to the UltimateSupport email at VASST you will get me as well because I’m on that distribution list. Either way, we realize that good customer support is as important as what the product does. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Igor Pereira]

Hello everyone!I´m sorry that i´m probably posting this on the wrong thread but i´m really desperate… so today i was working on a sony vegas project and while i was recording the audio for it i decided i didn´t wanted to use that specific audio but instead of pressing delete after stopped recording i pressed delete all on the right side and somehow sony vegas deleted all my videos(the ones i have in my documents) i lost about 60 gigabytes and all my hard work from months til now.I´m really desperate cause the stuff i lost is from my job.No videos no money.I´m really sorry for posting here and thanks in advance for any help some of you might give me. P.s. sorry if my english isn´t the best but i´m from portugal.

[Mike Kujbida]

It’s always best to start a new thread for a new problem so it doesn’t get lost.
What happened to you should not have happened. Instead, it should have deleted all the audio files only.
Anyway, do a Google search for undelete software.
There are a lot of free ones out there that will do a decent job of recovering deleted files.