Need Sony Sub-Basics

[Terry Esslinger]

First if you turn off DV scene detection you Will get just one long event rather than having it broken inyo the scenes when you pause.

You obviously have captured your clips. Have you gotten then loaded into Vegas? If not just open Vegas, click on project media tab. At the top you’ll find an “obtain media” or something like that icon. That will give you a browse function. Browse to your captured clips and double click on them. This will bring them into the project and they will be listed in the project media.

Then just drag any clip to the time line. This will create two tracks, one video and one audio. Drag another clip and drop it on the time line beyond the first clip. You now have still two tracks but two clips on each track. Just drag the secon clip over until it attaches to the rear of the first clip. Thses will play as one longer clip now.

Play the clips and find the ‘camera turned sideways” sections.
Use the space bar to pause and play. To fine tune your curser location use the right and left arrows on the key board. When you find the beginning of the ‘bad’ section hit S on the keyboard. This will split the scene at that point. Then move the curser to the end of the ‘bad’ section and het S agaiin. Highlight the ‘bad’ section and hit delete. If you have automatic snapping turned on the gap will close and you will hjave deleted the bad section. If you don’t have it on you will have to manually drag the second section and rejoin it with the first.

It took a lot of typing to explain this. It will only take you about 10 seconds to do it. Most of the things in Vegas are this simple, you just have to dive in.

Good luck.

[Anne Kirkley]

Please tell me how to turn off DV scene detection. I have searched in the index and help files and looked under all the headings in the menu bar, double clicked everything in sight and cannot find that. I understood and was able to do everything you said but that.

Thanks

Anne

Never do what you can’t undo until you have considered what you can’t do once you have done it.

[Edward Troxel]

[Anne Kirkley] “(who knew everytime you hit pause it ended a clip and started a new one when you hit resume)”

I Did 🙂

BTW, you CAN capture as a single clip. Just turn off “scene detection” in the capture app.

When in the Capture app, go to Options – Preferences. Now go to the “Capture” tab. The first option there will turn on/off scene detection.

Edward Troxel

[Anne Kirkley]

Thanks! It’s a good start.

A

Never do what you can’t undo until you have considered what you can’t do once you have done it.