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Double-arrows in Vegas to move EVERYTHING?
Hi guys I’m a casual video editor who is used to Premiere’s interface but recently switched to Vegas.
I like it so far, but haven’t figured everything out.
For one thing, how can I move ALL EVENTS after a certain point in the timeline? In Premiere, they had the “double-arrow” which would select all sound and video clips after the point you clicked and then you could just move everything over to make space for a new sequence in the middle of your project.
In Vegas, the only way I have found so far is to “group” everything together”, but that doesn’t work well because I don’t want it all grouped when I want to make fine adjustments later on. And if I ungroup it all, then everything I wanted synched now has to be re-grouped.
There has to be a better way!
R Gould
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8 Replies
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Take a look at Excalibur
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To select *EVERYTHING* after the cursor, the easiest way is definitely via a script (which is what Excalibur is). You might also look “selection tool” and “ripple editing” as well.
Edward Troxel
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I’m not sure how Excalibur or any other plugin would help here?
Coupla things to do.
1-Ripple will move everything. This may be your best option.
2-Group/ungroup doesn’t change sync of anything. Either items are grouped, or they’re not.
3-CTRL+A to grab everything, or use the Selection Edit tool and draw around everything to select it, then move it.
4-Use the existing veg as a sequence and drop it into a new project as a nested veg file.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I am going to go try “Selection Edit”. That seems quite simple.
Since you brought up Ripple, can you explain what it is? I’ve clicked Ripple a few times out of curiousity and I do not see what it does to the project in any way.
Gould
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With ripple editing (and Post Ripple Editing – which many prefer to use), when you insert or delete a clip, the rest of the project can adjust left or right that distance – for example.
It can affect from just that one track to everything depending on which ripple option you pick.
Edward Troxel
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Okay, that makes sense… so what is the difference between “ripple” and “post-ripple” then?
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With Ripple, it happens immediately whenever you do anything.
With Post Ripple, you do something and then YOU decide whether or not you wanted rippling to occur and manually force it using either “F”, “CTRL-F”, or “CTRL-Shift-F”.
Look it up in the help file. Lots of details there.
Edward Troxel
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Interesting. Thank you for your help!
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