[David Eon]

The problem is that your keyframe is “between frames”. Move the keyframe 1 frame left or right and try again. I had the same problem and just moved the keyframes a bit to fix it. Maybe someone on here has some insight into the Quanticize to frames option? I know it is a feature, but not sure what it does or if it is the culprit. Let me know if that helps!

-DavidEon

[David Eon]

If I’m reading this correctly, you may need to try holding down Alt while pressing [
I think that will clear up a lot of the confusion you are having. It’s difficult because even though many of the people on this forum use keystrokes constantly, you are the only editor that I know of using Zero Mouse! <- Which I think is pretty awesome! Keep exploring this and let me know if you have any other questions. For now, try some of these if you aren’t already using them.

JKL = playback (J is reverse, K is pause, L is forward) Press L again to play faster up to 4 times (same for J in reverse)
Spacebar and Enter both also Play/Pause but the spacebar returns to where it started and enter will stop wherever you press it a second time.

S = split at cursor
[ = select beginning of clip
] = select end of clip

Hold down Alt while pressing left and right arrows will go 1 frame at a time

Adjust zoom on timeline using up and down arrows

Hold down Alt and press [ to edit the beginning of your clip to the cursor
Hold down Alt and press ] to edit the end of your clip to the cursor

Press [ to select the beginning of the clip, then use arrows to adjust the edit
Press ] to select the end of the clip, then use arrows to adjust the edit

Press ] twice to go to the start of the next clip (you can move through all the clips on your timeline this way)
and [ twice to go back to a previous clip

So to use these keystrokes to delete a clip you could use:
L to play
K to pause
S to split at start
L to play
K to pause
S to split at end then
[ twice to go back to your new “Split clip” that you created and press Delete.

I hope this helps. Thanks!
DavidEon

[David Eon]

A quick way to match up events on your timeline to the files in the media manager is to select the events you want, then right click>Select in Project Media list. It will highlight all of the source media files that you have selected on your timeline. I hope that helps. Thanks!

DavidEon

[David Eon]

If I’m reading this right, you may also want to look at Vegasaur> Keep Inside Regions. It can Isolate only the regions and delete everything else. Then use Vegasaur>Close Gaps to create one continuous video from all of your isolated cuts. I hope this helps. Thanks!

DavidEon

[David Eon]

The reason for the text jumping around is that even though your text is anchored to the top left, the size of the text box is adjusting as you add more words. I have not found a way to adjust word by word in any of the vegas title editors (although I have seen the “typing” doogie howser effect using the Sony ProType Titler with some modifications).

Weird workaround is to type all of the text you want using the Titles and Text and then keyframe a mask to display the words in succession at your own pace using Pan/Crop. May actually be quicker this way, but here’s how:

Create a rectangular mask around the words line by line, click the negative button below to invert the mask, then slide along to “reveal” them in sync with the timeline. Set your keyframes to HOLD (set the first one immediately and the rest will follow) so the words pop on instead of slide and your good to go!

I hope that helps. Thanks!

DavidEon

[David Eon]

This option might be a pain if you also have a lot of markers on your timeline, but you can work around that using Vegasaur Markers Tab= Demote Markers, Then Delete Markers only, then run your split regions keystrokes, then promote markers back into your project. Again, not the best option, but not the worst.

DavidEon

[David Eon]

If it helps you can automate a keystroke to open in trimmer from the timeline. Options>Customize Keyboard (search trimmer) Trackview.Event.OpenInTrimmer. I hope that helps. Thanks!

DavidEon

[David Eon]

One thing to try is to click the Keep Aspect Ratio button before making adjustments in Pan/Crop. If you don’t, it will crop the edges and is nearly impossible to match up again.

The black background as you described should be transparent. If you have video or graphics on a track beneath you would be able to see through to the bottom track in those black spaces.

As far as the Pan/Crop not syncing to the timeline, you may be using an event only pan/crop that would only apply to that event. There is a Pan/Crop button for each video track on the left side above the opacity slider for that track. I hope that helps. Thanks!

DavidEon

[David Eon]

I am thinking that there is but I can’t seem to find it using vegasaur. It’s been a while since I’ve used Ultimate S but I thought there was a select regions option in one of them.

The quick and dirty way to quickly split up regions/markers is to customize your keyboard to skip to the next marker = Trackview CursorTo.RightByMarker

Then Split = Trackview Edit.Split

I have used this in combination with keyboard scripting functions like Microsoft Intelitype (now Keyboard and mouse) and Logitech G13 functions to repeat the keystrokes until all markers are split in a matter of seconds.

Sorry I know it’s not exactly what your looking for but it is better than double-clicking each region individually. I hope it helps.

DavidEon

[David Eon]

The track motion button (white and blue rectangles on left side of track) may be what you are looking for or you can use the 3D manipulation options to create the effect you are looking for on multiple tracks.

HOW: Insert a video track ABOVE the one that you want to zoom/dolly on. Then click the MAKE COMPOSITING CHILD button ON the track you want to zoom/dolly on. Then click on the PARENT TRACK alpha settings and switch to 3D source alpha (the parent track alpha button is a green button to the far left of the track). *Note that the green button is identical to the track alpha button but the parent track alpha will control the track below as well. Then click on the PARENT track pan button above the PARENT track alpha button. You can use the 3D track tools to manipulate the video on the child track (the one you want to dolly/zooom on). *Note you can add multiple tracks as compositing child to the parent to create 3D effects for all sorts of applications.

It can be confusing to start because the parent buttons and track buttons are the same, but once you understand how the parent/child track relationship works it is very useful. Credit Josh Sauder of Pinnacle Productions for his research and training on this method.

Please let me know if that helps and if you have any questions. God Bless.
DavidEon