[Kelly Griffin]

John: I’m using the single “HDMI out” to feed the LCD monitor. I’m also feeding it “Component”, and have kinda sorta been switching between both. Might I get a different picture if I disconnected component?

Dave: You just made my head explode. Now please come clean it up.

[Kelly Griffin]

No (unless I misunderstand), I’ve got my normal “work” screen (with app/timeline/Photoshop, etc) and a 32″ LCD on a stand in front of my workstation. For some reason, everything looks perfect in my Vegas preview window, but I see the oddities I described on the big LCD.

[Kelly Griffin]

John, that clip I mentioned wasn’t next to another clip– it was in open space on the timeline. When I went to move it it made what looked like a copy of itself and that whole thing filled with the transition criss-cross lines. I couldn’t figure out (and still haven’t) what I must have touched or clicked on inadvertantly to make it do that. Any ideas?

[Kelly Griffin]

Okay, found it on YouTube. So… new question: If the answer is to “RT CLK > Properties > Media > Alpha Channel”, is there a particular reason it’s so removed from where all the other logically-placed tools are for doing this?

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks, John, I will try what you suggest. You’re probably just seeing my frustration coming out in the fact that I’m trying to learn it while being up against deadlines, and so far Vegas is so different in so many ways than I’m used to that it’s hard for me to really “see” those advantages yet.

By the way (speaking of), yesterday I wanted to simply move a video clip a few frames and the whole event got overlayed with those fade/transition spline criss-crosses… love to know what’s going on there, too.

I hope you hear my THANKS, too, because amidst my learning frustrations I definitely don’t want to bite the hands that feed me (helpful information)!

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks, John. You’ve been very helpful about this. I do miss good old tape, though, I must say.

[Kelly Griffin]

Oops, sorry. Twenty-five year habit of referring to “clips” as “clips”!

[Kelly Griffin]

John, does this mean that if I have a folder with separate CPI files that’s what tells me the info is NOT embedded, or might the info be embedded as well as separate? (Not that this changes anything, but it might help me break bad news to my stressed client).

[Kelly Griffin]

So, I’ve got the files now and they load and play fine in Vegas10. But, I’ve got client logsheets with timecode information (and they said timecode displayed in the camera as they were shooting), but is there a way to see timecode somehow on my clips?

[Kelly Griffin]

Thanks folks!