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  • How do you prevent a split on one track from splitting adjacent track

    Posted by Gary Sharpe on November 2, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    I’m sure this is covered in the documentation, but I can’t find it after extensive searching.

    I have a video track that I am splitting into events timed to a music track. The music track is a single event below the video track. The video and audio are entirely independent and not grouped. When I hit “S” to split video to create an new event, the audio event is also split at the same place. All preferences are set at “default”. Vegas Pro 11 64 bit, last release;

    I will be most appreciative for a suggestion.

    Thanks, Gary

    Gary Sharpe replied 12 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Steve Rhoden

    November 2, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    Simply click on (highlight) the event you want to split
    and hit S.

    Steve Rhoden
    (Cow Leader)
    Film Editor & Compositor.
    Filmex Creative Media.
    https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
    1-876-461-9019

  • Gary Sharpe

    November 3, 2013 at 2:59 am

    Hi, thanks for responding. I know how to split an event. My question is how do i keep the split i do on one track from applying the split to a c time collocated event on another track that i want to leave as is.

    That is, i want the split to be isolated to one track.

    Gary

  • Matt Carlson

    November 3, 2013 at 3:16 am

    The rules for splitting are as follows…

    1) no event selected: all events at the cursor position will be split
    2) event selected: IF the event is under the cursor it will be split ALONG with any events in highlighted event’s group (even if they are not highlighted.) If no selected event is under the cursor nothing happens.

    So what is probably happening with you is you are getting a group split. Ctrl+Shift+U will toggle Ignore Event Grouping and the split will only occur on the highlighted event the way you want.

  • Steve Rhoden

    November 3, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Didnt you read properly what i instructed?
    First select or highlight only the event you want to split!
    And as a side note to be sure, make sure Ignore event grouping is
    enabled on the toolbar.

    Steve Rhoden
    (Cow Leader)
    Film Editor & Compositor.
    Filmex Creative Media.
    https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
    1-876-461-9019

  • Gary Sharpe

    November 3, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Thanks Steve and Matt. So simple I’m embarrassed, but it’s sometimes hard to find the answer to a trivial question in the docs. And Steve, apologize for not interpreting your kind response correctly.

    Am grateful for your help.

    Regards, Gary

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