To trimmer or not to trimmer

[Edward Troxel]

I, personally, do not use the trimmer very often. However, I also don’t use a second instance of Vegas for that purpose. Most of my editing is done straight on the timeline. For example, when working on a montage I might add a 30 minute clip to the timeline, put regions around the 20 small segments I want to keep, and then I run the Extract Good Clips tool in Excalibur to pull out those pieces and then just delete the original clip off the timeline.

However, the trimmer DOES have some uses. For instance, suppose you have one last 5 second spot you need to fill. You remember the piece you want and the file it was in. You have two choices: Add one hour to the timeline to hunt down that 5 seconds or open it up on the trimmer, highlight the proper 5 seconds, and drag it to the timeline. Still easier than opening a full second copy of Vegas to find 5 seconds too.

However, that’s the great thing about Vegas. It lets people develop their own workflows – it’s “flexible” to work the way YOU want to work.

Edward Troxel

[Donatello]

i find it depends on the number of clips i’m using … i capture whole 60min tapes. if i’m working with 2-4 60min tapes i tend to just copy/paste from vegas to vegas.

if i have 10-30 60 min tapes then i tend to use the trimmer as it is very easy to go from one tape to the next using the drop down menu history of clips.

[Rick Wise]

Thanks, guys, for the input. By the way, for those like me who are trimmer challenged, there’s a pretty good basic intro/tutorial to Trimmer in the Media Lab page of the U. of Wisconsin: https://www.fox.uwc.edu/iit/medialab/tutorials/video/vegas-basiccutting.html. At least ONE university is teaching Vegas instead of FCP or something else.

Rick

[Enrique Orozco]

…link doesn

[Rick Wise]

I don’t understand why that link doesn’t work. You’re right. It doesn’t. Try this: go here: https://www.fox.uwc.edu/iit/medialab/, then click on “Tutorials and Tips” in the left pane; then scroll to the bottom, “Video Editing” and select “Basic Cutting in Vegas”. (Note that the final page you reach will have exactly the same html address as my original link.)

Rick

[Rick Wise]

Oops. Same problem all over. Got it: the reason is the Forum is including final punctuation in the html address. Here is the actual link, clean:

https://www.fox.uwc.edu/iit/medialab/tutorials/video/vegas-basiccutting.html

Rick

PS: Wish there were a way to edit posts on this forum.