[Gilles Gagnon]

Yes, when I have the project open, I’ll provide a snapshot.

meanwhile, which example are you referring to Stephen? I don’t see your example?

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Stephen,
the parent track motion was used to animate 2 tracks at once, using only one set of keyframes.

one track contained a lower third background, the other, the text to be displayed on that background. The parent track motion allowed me to move both, together, from off-screen to on-screen.
without parent track motion, each event or track would have required its own keyframe set. If/when an edit is required, its much more inconvenient than changing a single parent track motion.

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Dave,
That’s exactly what I had to do. I was trying to avoid this by copy/pasting the keyfrmes with the events. Evidently, this can’t be done.

Cheers,

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for all your input gentlemen. Much appreciate the ideas.

In this case I’m using track motion, not event motions (crop/pan) because I use track parenting and “track motion” the parent.
Think a lower third popping from the bottom with background and text.

I guess I could have used Steve’s method of nesting a project, but I would have had the same issue. That is, I would have had to do track parenting with another track containing the lower-third text and motion both via parent track motion. In copying this “set” for multiple use, I still would need to copy the parent track-motion keyframes.

I ended up opening the parent track motion track to reveal the keyframes, selecting them (five in my case) and copying them at various locations where I copied all the lower-third “sets” I wanted. I was hoping to copy/paste the whole shabang in one swoop.

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Ian, you outline some interesting diffs. I’ll giver ‘er a try 🙂

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Ian,
I just looked at Color Lab. I’m not sure what this provides that isn’t already included in Vegas. Hmmmmm…

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Very good points Nigel.

I do question the anti-virus though. Unless you’re accessing files to be scanned by the AV or the AV is scheduled to do a scan or update, I’m not sure how it will get in the way.

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Good to hear Steve 🙂
Let’s hope the next release reflects this with a more stable Vegas out the gate, than recent version(s).

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

thanks

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Makes a lot of sense.
Thanks JR.

I’ll keep it turned off. The idea arose as I’ve been doing searches in the last couple of days. But the sleuthing is over… so I’ll keep indexing off.
Cheers,

Gilles