vegas 6 glitch or oversight

[Gary Kleiner]

You’re saying that the event (clip on the timeline) moves so that the new left edge (in point) lines up with where the old in point was?

Then, you have auto ripple mode turned on and it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to.

Turn it off with its icon at the top of the interface, or hit Ctrl/L.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Luke Gibson]

no sorry i should of remembered to mention i have auto ripple turned off. it’s hard to explain when i move the left edge (im making a music video) what was originally in sync moves out of sync.

[Gary Kleiner]

I assume you mean that you are trimming the edge, not moving the event. If you go past the actual beginning of the media, it will loop and start showing you the end of the media. The loop point is indicatd by a triangular notch along the top edge of the event. Is that what’s happening?

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Luke Gibson]

no… ok best way for me to explain is…

i have a 5 min clip of video and in the middle of that clip is a 5 second section that i want to single out and line up and lip sync with the music.

so without changing the lenth of the clip i move everything into its correct place so it lines up with the music, now what should be simple become really awkward.

trimming off the edges so i dont have any stuff that i dont want etheir side.

so i double click and select the area of video that i would like to keep and press the trim button. everything looks fine until you play the clip again where the clip has moved out of sync and is sometimes a completly new bunch of frames that where at least 10 -15 seconds away from where i cut it!

note: its the frames in the event box that change, NOT the postion of the event box in the timeline.

so this means i have to re expand the event box and go seaching for the frames i just had.

also another clear example is if i set velocity points when i drag from the right side they stay stationary but move when i drag from the left side. even stranger still is that this doesnt move if i trim the clip!

now if anyone could explain this please help? and is there away to stop it from doing so? it seems silly to me that this is actually ment to happen! i dont have auto ripple on just incase anyone asks.

[Gary Kleiner]

[luke1984] “i double click and select the area of video that i would like to keep and press the trim button.”

What trim button are you referring to? I don’t think I have one.

Also, are you trimming an event that has velocity changes? That is where you really are going to get in trouble and would go a long way to eplain what is going on there.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Luke Gibson]

lol ok no im not using volocity at the time it does exactly the same thing weather volocity is applied or not it makes no difference what so ever. the trim button is located in the toolbar at the top of the screen but you have to add it from the options > customise toolbar menu.

think of a 5 minutes film strip? a real one. on it you have lots of frames. now in that bunch of frames lets say i want 100 out of the 9000 that are there.

i would take a big pair of sissors and cut the frames i want out, chopped from both ends leaving me with the frames i want in the middle!

see in real life this wouldn’t suddenly turn into a diffenernt 100 frames from the same film strip! so i dont understand why vegas has such a hard time understanding this concept!

because for some reason the hundred frames i did have seem to of shifted to the right for no logical reason!

basically the frames that are in the focus area of the event box are being nudged to the right a certain percentage of what was removed from the left.

thanks…

note: im using vegas 6d is this problem a know issue and if so why didnt they fix it before moving to vegas 7.

[Luke Gibson]

please forgive me if this sounded a little irritated ive just woken up and the day isnt going great not to mention the dead line for this video is well past the gone stage. thanks again. luke

[Edward Troxel]

[luke1984] “think of a 5 minutes film strip? a real one. on it you have lots of frames. now in that bunch of frames lets say i want 100 out of the 9000 that are there.

i would take a big pair of sissors and cut the frames i want out, chopped from both ends leaving me with the frames i want in the middle!

see in real life this wouldn’t suddenly turn into a diffenernt 100 frames from the same film strip! so i dont understand why vegas has such a hard time understanding this concept!”

Vegas doesn’t have a hard time understanding this concept. What you want to do is very simple:

Assuming you’re on the timeline, create a selection area (i.e. drag the cursor across clicking ABOVE the timeline) of the area you want to keep. You can fine-tune the selection area by moving the little yellow triangles. Once you have the selection area in place, press “S” which will “split” the clip on both ends of the selection area. Now simply delete the footage left and right of the selection area and you’re done.

You can do the same thing in the trimmer. Open the clip in the trimmer, create a selection area around the footage you want, and then press “A” to add it to the timeline.

Either method will get your desired results.

Edward Troxel

[Gary Kleiner]

Are you trimming according to the picons (little frames) on the event? Those are there just for reference and are not meant to representy an exact point in the media (except if you are zoomed in very close.

You have to go by what you see in the preview window. What it shows is what’s under the cursor ar any given time.

As for the trim button – COOL. I forgot all about that one.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Luke Gibson]

thank you lol at last 🙂 ok yeah that exactly what i was trying to do although i dont understand why there isnt a button for this? and why the normal trim and dragging functions behave the way they do! surely to have them do this would be far more useful?

anyway thank you for solving my little dilema i thought i was about to go mad as i swear gary was on a wind up! lol

all the best