Erik Davis
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If I had 50 tracks of audio I would just highlight the track I want to include in Vegas. Way more intuitive. The fact that you need to read the manual to understand Resolve kind of makes my point. It’s overly complicated.
Erik
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Me coming from Vegas to Davinci, this is for sure on of the frustrations of editing in Davinci.
You need to have the red blox outline around the Video track on the left that you want to paste to as V1. You also need the white rectangle turned on because if it is turned off, it will ignore the track completely.
This is my recollection without sitting in front of the computer. The Vegas method of clicking a track on the left and it becomes highlighted is far simpler and easier to do.
Erik
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Just want to give this post a bump as I too am disappointed in how little can be done with subtitles in DR. We need more flexibility and we need 708!
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Just want to take a second to add my voice that 608 captions are almost useless in today’s broadcast world. I say almost because you can either import your 608 captions into Premier Pro and convert to 708 or the distribution house can take your 608 and convert it to 708 for you. Bottom line for me is that there is always another step after building captions in DR.
Another thing is you can’t have different subtitle styles within the same timeline. For example if I want the captions at a different height on the screen or I want different size shadow boxes behind the text, it is a no go in DR. So, it could be really slick if 708 output was possible and if we had the ability to customize the captions more on the same timeline.
Erik
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Appreciate the reply Sam.
I am running DR16 B3.
Set in/out on timeline with tracks highlighted. Ctl-C
Move to timeline B, place cursor, Ctl-V.
Entire clips are copied. Not the in/out portion. Maybe I should record a screen video and provide a link.
Of course, if I cut the clips, copy and paste and then undo that does work.
Erik
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I think I hear you…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/277/43491
This is the same question I was asking I think. Right?
I use a mouse that doesn’t have scroll wheel. It does have a middle button that depending on the app, works like a scroll wheel.
Regardless, I think their should be a keyboard command option for zooming in/out on either the source or timeline viewer.
Erik
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Hey George. Cool to give a response. I did go through the manual looking for anyway to zoom in on the source viewer “timeline” but didn’t find anything. Also searched keyboards commands that “aren’t assigned” to see if something was possibly hidden away.
It appears that there is a different editing method used in Resolve that what I became accustomed to. Probably, just a matter of rethinking things a bit. That said, I did submit a feature request to allow “zooming” on the source viewer in/out points. I think it is a bit counter intuitive looking at in/out points a couple of seconds apart in a 50 minute clip in the source viewer. Kind of, “what’s the point”, you can’t really do anything visually with those in/out points IMO.
Thank,
Erik
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I too really miss the NotePad plugin. I really believe this should be built in to the Vegas software.
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Hi Grazie,
Your question is quite logical and of course I normally wouldn’t end up with a nearly 3 hour timeline of only video events. I could explain to you the why I did but it is long and boring, so please understand that this was a very unusual circumstance.
Since I am in this circumstance, I was wondering if any of the plugsin I have such as Vegasaur, Ultimate S, Excalibur etc. had the capability to take the video event on a timeline and automatically add the audio corresponding event through an automated command.
Which paid scripts are you referring to?
Erik
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Neil,
Here is something to try.
Open a second instance of Vegas and copy and paste everything new into the new instance. You may lose track motion keyframes, etc. but this has worked me on occasion when a particular veg file will not render.
If that doesn’t work. I would recommend removing half of the content of your project and trying the render. Yes, try rendering the timeline with half of the content removed from the project. This is a trial and error process to see if you have a problem file in the project. Even though it is same coded, frame rate, etc., it is possible to have a corrupted video file.
Good luck.
Erik