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Displaying “clip info”
I may have asked part of this in an earlier post, but I now have several questions referring to clips in general:
(1) How do I display a clip’s name on a timeline? I see the clip’s thumbnail, but have no idea otherwise what clip I’m using unless I manually do a “show properties”, then hope I remember afterward (which I can’t).
(2) How do I see at a glance a clip’s current duration? In other words, when I adjust clip length all I see is the relative change, not total duration? In fact, yesterday I wanted to add some still graphics for equal durations as an existing clip, and couldn’t even determine that existing clip’s duration without explicitly counting frames on the timeline.
(3) Is there a way to “nudge” a clip’s position on the timeline with arrow keys?
(4) Is there a way to group select several clips at a time (like by pulling a rectangle selection area around them)to move them together instead of doing the “SHFT>click, click, click” thing?
Thanks for the help. Vegas seems really powerful, but there seem to be some very counter-intuitive basics that are taxing my brainpower…
–Kelly
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6 Replies
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1) View > Active Take Information (or press Ctrl+Shift+I)
2) Double click the event to make timeline selection. The selection length is displayed in lower right corner of Vegas window
3) F1 > Keyboard shortcuts
4) Edit > Editing Tool > Selection -
3. The 1 and 3 keys on the numeric keypad.
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Thanks folks!
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If you are looking for this information in the manual or help files, all media on the timeline are “events”, not “clips”.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Oops, sorry. Twenty-five year habit of referring to “clips” as “clips”!
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Kelly, I’m with you on calling it a clip.
The problem is that Vegas calls it an event so if you’re looking through the online help or manual, that’s the term to be looking for.
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