[Doug Jackson]

Hi Dennis,

Try adding another 3d Layer/Face and keep one flat and extrude the other, changing colors or texture to your liking on both.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Rob,

That looks like the ‘how much you moved an event’ indicator. Or the ‘how much new content added’ when you drop in an event.
For example, if you click on an event and drag it to the right, that indicator will tell you how many seconds & frames you moved it (if you have your default time setting to SMPTE).
Say for example, you needed to make room for a 2 second clip to insert, this would help you know by how much to move the existing event.

If you have auto-ripple enabled and delete an event, it should also tell you how much it moved items to close the gap.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi John,

What happens if you Solo Track 3? (Click the “!” in the tracker header)
If you don’t see that event in the preview window when your cursor is somewhere in that event then something is wrong.
Following up on Wayne and Graham’s thoughts, let’s look closer at the video event on Track 3. Click on the Video Event on Track 3. Right Click -> Switches. Is ‘Mute’ checked?

If so, it will not show. When I mute an event, it turns gray like your picture.

There are many different ways to achieve the same results and all of us have our own workflow techniques, but based on your initial description, may I suggest a change in your workflow?
Instead of messing with Composite envelopes to cut between the two Video tracks, why not split/cut the upper video event to reveal the lower? Cutting events are non-destructive to the media file.
If I have 2 cameras and I want to cut between them, I go to the frame I want to make the change. Select the top Video event (you should see it in the preview), hit the ‘S’ key to split the event. Vegas automatically selects the event to the right of the split. Then I ‘Mute’ the rest of the event on that track. Notice I have the Event ‘Mute’ function mapped to the ‘Alt+M’ hotkey in my picture above?
Then I scrub through the video (the lower video event is now showing in the preview) and when I get to the frame where I want to switch back to the top-level video event, I hit the ‘S’ key again to split the event, “ALT+M” will ‘un-Mute’ the muted event. Now the top video track event is showing again.
And if instead of a hard cut, you want to do a fade – simply apply grab the small triangle in the top left of the event and drag to the right to make a fade in.

Happy editing.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Sarah,

PluralEyes is an awesome tool. PluralEyes matches audio from multiple files, both video with audio and audio alone and then synchronizes them (lines them up) on its timeline.
They can be all out of order and it often lines them all up perfectly.
I have shot with 4 cameras plus 2 audio only recorders and it is amazing with how well it syncs all those together. It has saved me many many hours as I used to line these types of files up manually.
I have not used it too much for multiple TAKES of the same scene, but I’m thinking it will still work well with that because no take is ever perfectly the same. It analyzes all the audio, ambient noise, dialog, birds chirping and tries to find all of the matching files based on that audio ‘fingerprint’.

I believe RedGiant offers a free trial – not sure how it is limited, if at all.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Justin,

OK, so for your 2nd issue: Move the playhead (the timeline cursor) to somewhere other than the end of the event. Then do your zoom in. Should center the cursor.

Now, for the first issue. When I first imported a file into an Untitled project, I could still click past the end of the event.
It was a video file (MOV) but without sound.
Then looking at your sample, I see that you had selected the audio file. So I imported an MP4 with audio and voila can’t go past the end of the last event (just like your example).
So I tried a new project with just an WAV file – same: can’t go past the end of the WAV event.
Tried a new project with just a PNG — you can click way past the end if it.
So. maybe the sound files have something to do with it.
But I can drag another file to the end of any of the last events (either append to an existing track or create new tracks) and the timeline expands.
So I’m not sure it’s a problem.
Guess I never noticed this behavior in the past.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Kyle,

I suggest a search on the forum because this is a common question that has been discussed many times.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

I can’t recreate this. But there are lots of options under Preferences, one of which may perhaps affect this anomaly. Perhaps the Vegas “Reset” to defaults will fix this for you.

Quit Vegas.

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT while double-clicking on the the Vegas icon to launch it. Continue to hold the CTRL & SHIFT keys until the program is fully up and loaded.

You should see a window that asks “Do you want to reset all preferences to default values?” Place a checkmark next to “Delete all cached application data” and then click Yes.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Do you have “All Tracks, Markers, and Regions” selected under the Auto-Ripple options?

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Lisa,

I only have access to DVD Architect Pro, but I’m pretty sure the Studio version allows creation of DVDs with multiple titles.
Assuming you’ve rendered your movies as John has recommend, you would create a “Menu-Based Disc” in DVD Architect and then use the Add Media for the additional titles. Menu based disc is usually the default in DVDA. Once the Menu page is up, right click on the Project Overview panel on the left side and select “Insert Media” for each of your Movies.

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HDD: Crucial_SSD1 (256GB);WD(1000GB);WD(2000GB)
OS: Windows 7 Pro SP1 (64-bit)

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Sandra,

I, too, have a Panasonic AG-HMC40P and have occasionally had some strange ‘flickering’ as you have described. But thankfully, it has only been on occasion.
Sometimes just changing the transition slightly, believe it or not has ‘fixed’ it. A change like increasing or decreasing the length of it or the like.

Does every type of transition you use cause this? Does it occur each time?
Are these Sony or 3rd party?

If you’ve read much here in the forum, you will see many will recommend a Project save, quit Vegas, re-open the project BEFORE rendering.

Have you tried the ‘Sony reset‘ — Hold CTRL+SHIFT while double-clicking the Vegas icon?

Regards,
–Doug

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2x Intel Xeon DP E5620 @ 2400MHz; Memory: 22528MB; Chipset:Intel 5520;
Video Card : AMD R9 290x
HDD: Crucial_SSD1 (256GB);WD(1000GB);WD(2000GB)
OS: Windows 7 Pro SP1 (64-bit)