All video track opacity and volume gain levels went to 0%

jasontoeth wrote on 2/25/2017, 2:18 PM

Hello, I have a really large project where around 60 tracks and hours of footage ALL got leveled to 0% on the opacity, volume, graphic layers, everything. See the blue bar at the bottom of every clip on the timeline. Everything is silent and black. I thought my hard drive I was working from came unpluged, but noticed this bizaare problem instead. Rather than spend forever moving them back up invididually (I know how to, but I figure I must have accidentally used some function to zero them out in a mass quantity). To find that function again and use it to turn them all back on. Thanks for any help!

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john_dennis wrote on 2/25/2017, 3:46 PM

Could you post a complete screen shot? I'm having trouble discerning what I see.

jasontoeth wrote on 2/25/2017, 4:55 PM

Don't know if a screenshot is much help, but notice how the opacities are all zeroed out (blue line at the bottom of each clip = 0%), I was wondering the shortcut to move mutiple video clip opacities and sound clips gains back up all at once, since hundreds of clips were all turned down from 100% to 0% all at once somehow. I think something feel on my keyboard and caused it. Trying to figure out what it was to reverse it.

heg wrote on 2/25/2017, 5:40 PM

I am almost sure there is no shortcut for that, but you can download vegasaur and try it free for 30 days and one of the amazing time savers that offers is the solution to your problem:

Press Ctrl+A to select all tracks, then in vegasaur go to Editing> Quick properties> Events tab > check Opacity and set it to 100%, and that's it...

There should be a method in Vegas, I tried: Ctrl-A, and when you move the opacity down and up in on one event it affects all events selected... with the exception that if you go to opacity 0, with all tracks selected and you change it to other value it doesn't affect all tracks/events, but only the event you are changing... I also tried with just one track, right click, select events to end, but it is the same that I've just described.

The only other way to move the opacity in all your tracks -at least that I know- it's if you mess with the automation settings in the track header and move the level slider, and it can move all your tracks at once if you have child tracks. But that's the opacity of your track, not of the event, so for sure you didn't do that

But the solution it's so simple with vegasaur and faster than the time It took to you to read my reply

jasontoeth wrote on 2/26/2017, 11:41 PM

I turned them all off in one swoop of a second as I certainly didn't do them each accidentially indiviudially. :-D Naturally I think there'd be an oscure way to do it again to reverse it, but who knows what it is. Probably over a thousand clips so maybe I'll try Vegasaur. Thanks!

xberk wrote on 2/27/2017, 12:10 AM

I ran some tests and as suggested above Ctrl-A will select all events and then moving one event's opacity, layers or volume downward below 100% moves ALL events the same. But this does not seem to work in reverse if everything has been lowered to zero.

Do you have a backup? Ctrl-Z would have set things right at the time. Vegasaur may be your best bet.

jasontoeth wrote on 2/27/2017, 1:24 AM

Installed Vegasaur and couldn't find it in extensions, then read deeper and noticed it requires 14. I'm running Vegas 12, so I guess that's out. I can probably manually move up the levels of every track instead of the time and money. I checked backups first thing, but it's from a few saves ago, but version I have is a bit too old. I kind of had timeline separations, so it didn't affect the entire timeline, so I didn't notice before saving it that it affected the 2nd half of the project. At the time I was working on the first half, so all looked well. Thanks for the all the replies! I appreciate it.