[Patrick Forestell]

Thanks Edward and Gary,

Whenever I worked a baseball game I was used to “take 3” for camera 3, and stand-by 2, “take 2” and so forth. For me, and so many years in broadcast TV, the term “take” seems out of place as it used in Vegas. I looked at there Vegas .pdf manual and the HELP section (within the software) and I don’t see the term “track” noted anywhere.

Last night I keep at it, using the S key (by mistake I was using the caps+s key which did nothing).

Question: When I try to butt two sliced videos together I get a black frame between the two videos; I was trying to achieve a cut-only frame-pulse edit. Instead, to avoid the “cut” edit, I had to overlap (dissolve) the two videos by “02” frames; so it looks like a quick dissolve whicj. So how can I get a cuts-only edit and avoid the black frame ?

Question: Anyway to open a 2nd preview window ? I ask becase I am used to working (AVID at the station) with 2 video windows. I need the 2nd window to match the wide shot wirth the close-up so the “cut” between the two with “match”.

I guess I could (but I don’t know how yet)open up the wide shot video in the “trimmer” window and use the “preview” window as my close up shot and match the two sources for a cut-edit (????).

many thanks,

Patrick

[Patrick Forestell]

I’ve worked for CBS, and Westinghouse, and we used “take” for which “take” was good, take 1 etc. I think “track” would be better. reported usually never get a good “take” right the first time and so they mark the script as to which “take” is good. Or which “take” stand-up is good.

Patrick