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How to keep track selected
Vegas pro 10
I bet there is some trick to make a track stay selected until purposely unselected… do I lose or win?
As I go along the audio/video timeline jumping by edit points and doing various things. It appears a track needs to be selected for the ability to jump between edit points to work, but I keep loosing focus.
Right when I expect to jump to next edit point, my track has become unselected unbeknown or not not noticed, and instead of moving to the next or previous edit point my cursor zips from where I am in Indiana out into Arizona or somewhere like that.. Then I go trekking to retrieve it and re-select the track.
It is very disruptive of the work and I’ve even lost track of what I was about to do several times.
What do I need to set?
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4 Replies
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You can try by holding down the ctrl key,
while you click on the tracks you want highlighted.
when done the tracks you want will be all selected.Steve Rhoden
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[Steve Rhoden] “Steve Rhoden Re: How to keep track selected
by Steve Rhoden on Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03:00 pmYou can try by holding down the ctrl key,
while you click on the tracks you want highlighted.
when done the tracks you want will be all selected.
“Well yeah, I know how to select as many as I like. I’m talking about keeping them selected. Seems like about half the time I go to use the keycombo of ctrl-alt arrows to move around the edit points, I find the darn track has become unselected and of course instead of moving to the next edit point I move the cursor into the next county.
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There is no way to keep a track selected. Every time you click on the timeline, whatever your click on gets selected. That’s usually how editing programs work, i.e., they give the focus to whatever you click on. I don’t see how else they could work. Just don’t click off of the track or be sure to reselect the last event since you are moving by events anyway (you really need to keep the last event selected).
~jr
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[John Rofrano] “There is no way to keep a track selected. Every time you click on the timeline, whatever your click on gets selected. That’s usually how editing programs work, i.e., they give the focus to whatever you click on. I don’t see how else they could work. Just don’t click off of the track or be sure to reselect the last event since you are moving by events anyway (you really need to keep the last event selected).”
I see from your comments that I have missed how this really works. I had got the notion that jumping from events to event depended on the HEAD of the track being selected as it does in premiere pro.
In premier the track body and the track head are seen as different entities so a click on the track body does not also change focus of the track head.
In vegas, clicking anywhere on a track, head or the part where media goes, changes focus on all of it… that is they are not separate.
Long use of Premier has shadowed my thinking when using vegas and has caused me many problem that are not really problems at all but a continued expectation to see this nle behave like a different nle… dumb for sure but maybe somewhat unavoidable.
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