Dave Messinger
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re: “….like Terry said, zoomed way in , the left and right arrow keys move the cursur one frame, but the further out you zoom the more frames the arrow keys move it…..”
I tried this and it doesn’t seem to matter how close out or far out I am zoomed, the right arrow key is only advancing 1 frame at a time. I have about 25 minutes of events on the timeline.
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Well – either it’s the holdiays and no one is posting or this was a real stupid question. I would have thought someone would have said either “no way”, “what -are you nuts”, or perhaps “it’s a hidden feature – hold Ctrl+alt and hit the plus key twice quickly”.
Oh well.
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the compositing mode for the track was set to “cut”. Is there a default ? I was reading through the online help and maybe it’s just me, but I sure couldn’t find a default choice.
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I am going to keep searching the threads here – but I seem to have a problem understanding this one – I had an empty (blank) timeline, dragged an event to it – it created a video + audio track, and my preview is black. Sent clip to trimmer – shows up there. Right click in trimmer and I can check “show video in preview window”, and it works. Turn it off, preview goes back to black.
I have 100% opacity on the track, track is not muted.
I looked through the timeline preferences and didn’t see one on displaying trimmer in preview window, so I assumed you are talking baout the option in the trimmer window for showing the video in preview monitor.
I know it has to be something simple I am missing here – but I have seen the same results (black preview monitor) when clips are on certain tracks, and when I move the events to a different track, they show up in the preview monitor – so I know it has to be some property I am not up to snuff with – just can’t seem to find it.
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Thanks Ed. That’s easy enough and I am glad to see it was that easy. But scripting sounds like something to get to know – so I guess I’m off to the help file on scripting.
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Not having heard of Excalibur or Ultimate S before, I did a search and found a cow posting that was early November that said they were working on updating Ultimate S – so that’s what I meant.
Vegas is new to me. I am just trying to see if I like it – and right off the bat I ran into the separated audio issue – all I was trying to do was to get the audio associated back to an av event that I had deleted out the audio while playing around with the interface. I thought it should be a pretty simple thing to do. From what I am hearing, it takes scripting or a plugin program.
I’m not trying to be critical – I am just asking. With Liquid, all you do is click the event’s audio property back on. I was just having trouble doing it with Vegas – hence my question.
Dave Messinger
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I will have to look into scripting in the help file – I checked on Ultimate S and sounds like it is not yet compatible to vVgas 8 – but they are working on it. Both Ultimate S and Excalibur look like they are $150 or so each. Are those typical products that most Vegas editors use ?
I was hoping there was just some easy way inside Vegas8 to get the audio properties of an event re-attached or re-associated. Bummer.
Is the idea in Vegas to always leave audio and video grouped on the timeline, even if you are not going to generally use the associated audio – just so it’s always there ? I guess you could just mimimize the track and turn the audio off.
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Thanks Dave. I appreciate the comments and I agree.
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Thanks Rick. I appreciate your comments. I can understand the client wanting assurances that whatever I place in their product will not come back to bite them, and I think producers have to trust a company like Digital Juice that the product is truly free from future challenge. That’s what they are in the business for. However, indemnification sure makes you think things through.
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Ah – that is a great tip and I don’t know how I missed what was being said – but I can’t wait to try it and see how it works, cause that seems cool.
I am just learning the nuances of Vegas as I have heard it is great – and by nuances I mean nuances to me. I will take something I can do easily or know the 123’s of getting from A to B within Liquid, and when I try to do the same thing in Vegas, I seem to get a bit bogged down in the process – but I am not always the best at explaining what my nuances are – cause I am not sure of all the terminology for Vegas yet – but I find that posting on forums like this often is the fastest way for me to learn – partly because you have to post in Vegas’s terms to be very clear.
Anyway – when it gets down to becoming important to locate previously observed but unloged “usable and needed footage”, I end up searching a large clip in search of that location. And I usually scrub the mouse till I get to the area I think it is near, then switch to quickly advance (or reverse) 1 frame and 10 frames – because with three ctrl-right’s, I can advance 1 second – so switching back and forth between 1 frame (right arrow) to going a l0 times faster,and keep taping that right arrow key fast and almost advance in real time. Anyway, that’s how I find scenes fast when I need to – and I was trying the same thing with Vegas and having trouble being able to go that fast.
So that was what I was trying to check on in asking the question,
but I didn’t pick up on zooming increases the chunck size –So I will have to try that out. Thanks.
Dave Messinger
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