Moving an Event in the Timeline

[Jeremy Rasnic]

You do it the same way, just click and drag it where you want. If you want to select multiple use CTRL+click. If you want to select all events on that track to the end of the track, right click the starting event and choose select to end.

By the way, if you want to make a smaller event than what is on the timeline, just click “S” to split the event.

j razz

[Brian Jones]

Thanks Jeremy for the quick reply.

But! With Ripple edit on all the clips on the right of the clip I want to move, move as well! If, on the other hand, if I click Ripple Editing off, the clip I want only moves, but it dose not fill the timeline and move the clips to the right to make room. The moved clip just sits on top on the timeline obscuring the clip underneath it. Am I doing something (I must be) wrong?

Brian

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Yes. Ripple edit can be your friend, or mess up a whole project if you forget you are using it. I usually use it and then directly turn it off so as not to move things I did not intend to move.

the clip I want only moves, but it dose not fill the timeline and move the clips to the right to make room

I don’t believe I understand what you mean by “fill the timeline” but what you are observing is right. Can you imagine if you just wanted to move one event and everything after it always moved in conjunction with the event? So, this is the reason for ripple edit as well as for selecting events after the event you want to move. By the way, if you are going to be moving the same events for a while, you may want to group them (have them selected and press “G”. To break up the group, press “U”)

j razz

[Brian Jones]

Right, let me clarify the term “fill the timeline” not the best phrase I could have chosen! I want the chosen event to move to the new chosen position on the time line when I release the left mouse button. When I release the mouse button the event is place at the chosen point on the timeline and all the events to the right move up to allow the insertion of the event.

In fact when I click on an event Vegas thinks I want to create a “crossfade” transition.

Once again (for my own clarity):

I want to move say the 5th event to the end of the 3rd event so there is continuity in the video and no gaps or overlays are left.

I’ll stop now before I make thing worse!

[Jeremy Rasnic]

I think I got what you mean. That is where ripple edit comes in, just make sure you select the proper variant for your circumstance. You could also just pull out the 5th event and place it behind the third and then click on the fourth and drag it to the right to fill in the gap and not have any cross fades. If that is not what you are speaking of, perhaps I am missing it 🙂 Please do clarify if I missed your point yet again.

If I did hit your point, I hope you can see why this is not an automatic thing as Vegas (or any other NLE) does not know what exactly you want to be moved. You may only want what is on that track to move instead over every other track or maybe you do want everything else to move… This way, with ripple edit, you can choose your variant and have it do what you want.

j razz

[Brian Jones]

Thank Jeremy you now understand my question. I don’t want to prolong this discussion ad-infinitum as I’m sure you have other things to do. So let me close by asking one very small question, clarify the meaning of “select the proper variant”.

I appreciate your sticking with me and this encourages me to participate more in the forum.

Thanks

Brian

[Jeremy Rasnic]

If you notice on the ripple edit icon there is a drop down arrow on the right hand side of it. Click it and look at the options it gives. Just make sure it lines up with what you want to do.

Glad to have you around and don’t fill bad about asking questions.

j razz

[Kent Clark]

Brian,

I’m not much past noob with Vegas but I had the same problem as you. I was always getting overlapping events or fading events when I just wanted to move events and I couldn’t figure out why I was getting those various results.

Here is what I do now to avoid those problems. Choose the event(s) you want to move and cut them from the timeline with the scissors icon. Do Ctrl M to ripple the subsequent events, this eliminates the blank space the cut command produced.

Now move your timeline cursor to the spot you want the excised event(s) to start; this can’t be in the middle of an event, it has to be where two separate events meet. If you want to place the excised event in the middle of another event then put your timeline cursor where you want that to happen and hit the S key, this will cut the event into two new events where the cursor is sitting.

When you have the cursor where you want it, go to the Edit menu and choose “Paste insert”. The event(s) you originally cut will be inserted at that point and all of the events beyond it on the timeline will be moved to make room for it. You will have no blank spaces in the timeline, no fading events and no events on top of events.

[Brian Jones]

Hi Kent. Thanks for joining in, your advice was extremely helpful.

The only query I have is the ‘Ctrl M’ command. In version 9 – the version of Vegas I’m using – when I press ‘Ctrl M’ a dialog box, named ‘Render To New Track’, pops up which doesn’t seem to have much to do with Ripple Editing I’m afraid.

In any case I appreciate the reply and advice, but It leaves me wondering why Sony makes it so difficult and so hard to find an answer?

Brian

[Kent Clark]

Brian, sorry, I was going off my memory. It’s Ctrl F, not Ctrl M.