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Why Are Tracks Linked?
Hi,
Quite often I noticed that the pop-up or small adjustment windows in Vegas (v9) don’t change as you change tracks. Somehow… through SOME of these windows tracks get linked somehow.FOR EXAMPLE: I create TWO new video tracks, the tracks are IN NO WAY linked or related. On the lower track I set the ‘x’ position for track motion to -400. I make this setting in the pop-up or small adjustment window for Track Motion adjustments. When I click on the other track, whose track motion I did NOT set….it ALSO has its ‘x’ position set to the same -400 value.
How can this be?
Why does the software do this?This is EXTREMELY frustrating. Is there some hidden check box or setting that applies changes to one track to all tracks in the project?
Frustrated With Vegas!!
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9 Replies
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Can you post a screen grab of your Vegas workspace especially the Timeline Track Headers?
Grazie
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I would like to know how you did this because, 1) I can’t duplicate it and 2) looks like a feature I would like to use.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Hi Everyone,
Here are two screen prints of track one and two. Originally track motion was ONLY set or changed in track two. Yet….no matter which track I clicked on…. it showed track two’s “x position” value.Then I changed track one to a totally different “x position” value than track two….. but again, once I set track two’s “x position” value… then click on track one, it shows the same value.
(I wish there was an event motion control rather than a track motion control).
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Thanks
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So what you are saying is that you can\’t set aTrack\’s Track Motion independantly of each other? Yes? Very odd. I have to say I can\’t repro your findings. I can set TM independently of other tracks and at present I\’m at a loss to suggest how you could have stumbled on, what WOULD be a much sought after feature! Bizzare.
Grazie
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Hi,
I think….somehow I HAVE actually set the x position for the track motion for each track.What is actually happening is this – when I click from one track to the other…. the little window that displays the track motion settings, isn’t changing.
Strange it is………
Thanks For Your Help!!
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Just clicking on a different track does not change which track motion window is showing. You have to actually click on the track motion button on the track header in order to look at the other track motion screen.
Edward Troxel
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Eh? Is it possible you aren’t looking at the Track
Motion for THE track you are checking? Is that it? That’s what Edward is suggesting.Grazie
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Hi,
Well…. it is somewhat a (windows) software convention that if a window’s purpose is to display and allow editing of information from other objects – here the different tracks – THEN, simply selecting that object causes the window to display the current values for that object.In fact it seems rather “logical” as well.
To tell me that it does NOT work this way………but in fact after you select, or click on a track, you MUST also click some other button to get the Track Motion Window to show the current selected track’s values is ………….just ignorance, and non-standard software.
I guess I should have gone with Adobe PP…
🙁
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Oh, you don\\\’t need to select the Track, you just need to click on the \\\”control\\\” you want to view or adjust – here it is Track Motion. I like this approach, it gets me directly to what I want to do, I don\\\’t need to do 2 clicks. And this also holds for the other Controls within another Track Header.
However what you are suggesting might interest Sony? Why not send them an email detailing what you wish to happen?
Grazie
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