Three-point Editing Prt. 2

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

You can:
~Create a selection by Click/dragging an area (thus defining I/O points

~Double click a blank space to create a selection (thus defining I/O points

~Manually enter I/O points

~use the Overwrite function found in Vegas Pro 8C

And “ADD” from the trimmer to any of the above selected method points.
This is detailed in this video:

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Bill Cortez]

Thanks Douglas, the tutorial helped a lot. Here’s a problem I’m still having: I have a 15 second blank spot (no video) in my timeline (audio only, on track 3); I set In and Out points approx. 3 seconds apart (there is a gray box between points, but the color between points has not changed on timeline). I set an In point in the trimmer, when I push the “A” key all the video that is to the right of the In point in the trimmer is added to the timeline, not just the three seconds that I wanted. If I double click in the blank spot in the timeline I get a 15 second “Colored” selection, which I can make smaller by dragging the right “Out” point to the left, but I find it hard to get it exactly where I want it because I want to be able to set In’s and Out’s easily while listening to the narration track. Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. Bill.

[Bill Cortez]

I just figured out that if I have, say, a 15 second hole to fill in my timeline, but I just want to set In’s and Out’s three seconds apart for the first shot (I want to put a series of shots to fill the hole), I need to double click in the gray area between the yellow the points (to highlight the selection in the timeline). Is there some option I can set that will automatically highlight the area between my In and Out points. Thanks, Bill.