[Paul Hansen]

Thanks, John. So it seems I’ve stumbled into dabbling in bad practices. I will go by the book from now on. I’m sorry to have taken so much of your valuable time for what turns out to be a somewhat misguided and goofy request.

By way of explanation, I found that in some instances, rather than cutting, I could simply paste a brief “B roll” cut-away onto (over the top of) an existing clip on an existing track and manually adjust a fade in and out of it, leaving the uncut original clip behind/underneath it on the same track. It saved time when I was in a pinch and seemed to work fine. I suppose it’s always better to go by the book and stick with the way things were intended to work.

We’ll call this one solved. Thanks again. Merry Christmas.

Walking Liberty

[Paul Hansen]

I want folks to really understand what I’m looking for here…
When grabbing and sliding a video clip in a channel, why do some clips seem to disappear behind others and, conversely, why do some clips seem to cover others when they are overlapped? What and where are the parameters adjusted to determine which clip goes on top and which is hidden? Please note that this is something pre-transition. I appreciate the transitions thing–I use transitions regularly–but this is a more basic question that bugs me since I’ve not been able to find the answer. Knowing this could have made for a very simple solution to a edit problem I had earlier today. As it is, I had to create a work-around that took a lot of valuable time. I needed a clip to go in front of another (on top of–like the layers behave in a drawing program) for a few more seconds. But because it seemed somehow programmed to go BEHIND the next clip rather than over it, I couldn’t see part of the clip I needed. I hope someone knows what I’m talking about. A sincere thanks to everyone for your interest and consideration.

Walking Liberty

[Paul Hansen]

Andrew:

If this in fact works, it is precisely what I was looking for. It appears that I fixed my previous issue by stretching the text box on the video time line which made my crawler text fit into the 10 second window. It turned out fine, but I still thought there was a way to tweak that key frame time line. This certainly looks like it could be it. I must get back to work now before I can take time to try it, eager as I am, but it looks good. A big thank you for the graphic explanation. I truly appreciate the Creative Cow team.

Walking Liberty

[Paul Hansen]

Thank you. Problem solved. So embarrassingly simple.

I *thought* I should be able to add more time to that little key frame window, enabling me to place diamond key frame indicators out further than 10 seconds.

Maybe it’s a total non-issue and it seems the duration is actually handled by the length of the text box on the actual video time line.

I obviously have much more to learn. Thank you sincerely for taking your precious time to help. You’ve rescued me from some figurative quicksand and enabled me to finish a project much more quickly.

Walking Liberty

[Paul Hansen]

To Danny Hays:

It doesn’t appear that I thanked you LAST YEAR about this time. I truly appreciate your taking the time to respond, and I’m terribly sorry it took so long to thank you! Your answer is so wonderfully simple, but for one who didn’t know it before, it’s great to have it pointed out. Thanks again!

Walking Liberty

[Paul Hansen]

Problem solved.

Thanks, John. You were right. I’ve got to hit the east-coast sack for now. I’m leaving the cam and pc on (with screen off) and will tackle how Vegas 10 renders in the morning. I want to render/save to an external hard drive and burn a DVD. This minor crisis was enough one night. Thanks again for getting in touch. I knew knowledge and experience would win out.