[Mike Kujbida]

You can chop it up and split and cut anything you want in Vegas Movie Studio.
Where I think the confusion lies is that you won’t be able to remove things that were already done in Serif Movieplus such as a title over top of a video event (what Vegas calls a a clip). That’s already rendered and can’t be removed (the title that is).

[Mike Kujbida]

Stab in the dark here but open the Pan/Crop window on the event, right click and choose Match Output Aspect.

[Mike Kujbida]

By shortcuts, if you mean the various presets of a specific transition, that’s something you have no control over other than creating your own and saving it as another preset.
For example, 3D Blinds has 4 presets while Dissolve has 24.
Once you drop a transition onto your timeline, you’re free to choose what preset you want, how you want to customize it and save it if you design a new one that you want to keep for future use.

If you want a specific preset, click on it in the Transitions tab, hold down the Shift key and drag it on top of your timeline transition. That way you won’t get the Event FX window popping up on you.

Is that what you’re asking?

[Mike Kujbida]

Thanks John!! Looks like a great tool for users who don’t want those pesky files hanging around 🙂
I go back to a lot of my older projects from time to time so I just keep them. They’re usually very small so that’s not a concern to me.

[Mike Kujbida]

Sorry Roger but the only solution is to manually delete the .sfk files.
This has been discussed numerous times on several Vegas forums and, while most users feel the same way you do, Sony has never done anything about it.
If you never want or need to see the waveforms, go into the View menu and deselect Audio Event Waveforms. Ctrl+Shift+W is the shortcut for this.
If at some point in time you do want them visible, then enable this option again.

Here’s a response from Chris Dolan, one of the Sony developers on the Sony Vegas forum about two years ago when this question came up yet again.

Yeah, I agree it’s annoying but the alternatives are worse… This applies to .sfvp0 proxy files too. We call them “sidecar” files.

Option 1: save them with the media (as we do today)
Pro:
– if you move the media folder, the sidecar stays with the media
– if you move the media to a new folder, it’s easy to grab the sidecar too
– if multiple projects use the same media, you only generate the sidecar once
– computing the sidecar filename is really easy from the media file name
Con:
– media folder is littered with extra files
– some media folders (e.g. dvd) are read-only
– if you rename the media file, the sidecar file is forgotten

Option 2: save them next to the .veg
Pro:
– keeps your media folder clean
– if you delete your project, it’s easy to delete all the sidecars at the same time
Con:
– all the Pros from option 1 are now Cons here
– file naming is hard. if you have D:\movie1.mp4 and E:\movie1.mp4, what do you call the sidecar file in C:\Projects ?

Option 3: save them in a user-specified folder
Pro:
– never have to see the ugly sidecar files
Con:
– same Cons as option 2
– hard to know what to delete if you need disk space back

Option 4: save the sidecar *inside* the media file
Pro:
– cleanest option
– delete/rename/move is really easy
Con:
– not all media formats have compartments to store custom data
– worst performance impact (multiple reads to the same file)
– file timestamps keep changing, which makes it hard to know what’s current
– bloats the media file
– possibly incompatible with other NLEs or players

Option 5: store extra data in .veg
Pro:
– pretty clean from a filesystem point of view
– never any issues with file naming
– no file compatibility issues from option 4
Con:
– makes the .veg file really huge, which slows down save/undo dramatically
– increases contention for the .veg file
– wasted effort if you share media between projects

In summary, option 1 has consistently come out on top as least problematic. In the earliest days of Vegas (before my time) the devs tried option 4, but it caused more trouble than benefit. Some other NLEs do something like option 4 or option 5, or solve it with an external metadata database.

[Mike Kujbida]

I just realized that I missed a step. Not sure if it’s the cure but it’s worth a try.
After you initially set the time code to Time and Frames, right click again in the time code box and go Time Format > Set Time at Cursor. Now enter the desired time.

[Mike Kujbida]

James, see if this works for you.
Add your security footage event to the timeline. Make sure it’s all by itself.
Right-click in the timecode box above the Vegas timeline and set it to Time Format > Time and Frames.
Set this to the desired start time.
Drop the Timecode FX on the Preview window and set the preset to Time and Frames.
Render this event to the format of your choice. Bring this into your project and you should now see the timecode display at the time of your choosing.
Good luck with it.

[Mike Kujbida]

Click the Split Screen View icon on the top left of the Preview window.

[Mike Kujbida]

You’re welcome Linda. Glad I could help.

[Mike Kujbida]

You need to go into the Internal Preferences in Vegas. Do this by holding down the Shift key and then go Options – Preferences. Click on the Internal button at the top right. Once in there, type closed in the search bar at the bottom, double-click and change TRUE to FALSE in the Value box, press OK and you’re done. Restart Vegas and you won’t get that message any more 🙂