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My favorite key-stroke is…
There is no doubt that using the keyboard for editing in Vegas can really speed things up. I thought I would start this thread to see how others are using the keyboard.
Here’s my favorite:
The ‘u’ key is used to ungroup a group. A ‘group’ can be as simple as the audio and video tracks of a clip. For example: to get rid of an audio track running with video track – simply click on the audio portion of the track, hit ‘u’ (to ‘ungroup’ it) and hit ‘delete.’ Done. To shorten the audio track witout shortening the video tract – ungroup ‘u’ – shorten audio – ‘control-click’ video track (to highlight both) and hit ‘g’ to regroup the video and shortened audio track. ‘u’ ungroup and ‘g’ group are a pair of hard-working twins…
What’s your favorite time-saving key-stroke?
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11 Replies
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8 & 2 for event movement
🙂
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The most important keybaord stroke for me is Ctrl/Z (undo) 🙂
Also,I would recommend using Ignore Event Grouping instead of ungrouping and grouping events. You’ll get into a lot less trouble (and use fewer keystrokes). You can turn it on with the button on the toolbar or use the keystroke Ctrl/Shift/U. Better yet, you can remap the keyboard so it’s a single keystroke.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Alt – tilde (the key to the left of No. 1 on the top of the keyboard.) Toggles away and back-on all the Vegas windows other than the timeline. Great for displaying the timeline to select segments to move/delete. I stumbled on this by mistake, a happy mistake.
Rick
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
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The alt-tilde is cool! Thanks
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alt+tilde: isn’t it the same as F11? just tried it and didn’t notice a difference………..
😉
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Kinda looks the same to me? But this is only one key – F11. I tried it out with 2-Screens . . nope nothing new there?
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I like the “I” and “O” to set in and out.
Charlie
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Not exactly a keystroke but my latest favorite move is when I have a noise in a clip that is too loud, make it a region, split it out and then you can grab the volume at the top of the new clip and pull it down to where you want it. Neat part is being able to see it shrink to size it against the rest of the audio. It’s great for knocking down background noises (like slamming door or drawer) of a shout.
JerryW
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[JerryW] “Not exactly a keystroke but my latest favorite move is when I have a noise in a clip that is too loud, make it a region, split it out and then you can grab the volume at the top of the new clip and pull it down to where you want it. Neat part is being able to see it shrink to size it against the rest of the audio. It’s great for knocking down background noises (like slamming door or drawer) of a shout.”
That is cool. Actually quicker than the volume enevolope thing.
Here’s another that I like,’s’ for spliting highlited tracks. BingBang. The key-stroke splits at the timeline curser. Very handy…
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I like the ‘S’ for splitting clips very much
/Ulf
Rgds.
/Ulf – Denmark
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