Well I thought it might have something to do with the solo button, but I could not get mine to do what yours is doing. I did the same muting thing you are doing in a project, but I never hit the solo button.

If you right click on a clip (audio or video) --> switches --> mute...could it have something to do with that muting? Or do you see all the mute buttons in each track change to mute?

This probly won't help you, but we are best friends now, right? I'm grounded tonight, but I can play tomorrow. :)

Try reinstalling vegas. Does it still do it ?

I'd like to re install Vegas, but...I have the downloaded version, so I don't have the disk.

Does that mean I have to re download it to reinstall??

Try not to call me a simplton for my question, Thanks.

Surely not
If you've kept the original download file just find setup.exe and away you go
Check you've got it (& serial No.) before you uninstall if that's what you are going to do.

Hey, thanks for the replies. Actually, I figured out why I was having a problem. Generally, after syncing the three avi files, I'll put two blank tracks (one video, one audio) at the top of my timeline. I take the best of my three audio tracks, tweek it in wavelab, then place it onto the blank audio track, taking care to make certain it is in perfect sync with the other tracks. Then, I edit the video by copying desired shots from the three vid tracks and pasting into the blank video track. In order to maintain sync throughout the project, I always select all tracks (alt-E-L) before splitting to copy a desired video bit from one of the tracks.

I never realized it before, but, when I select all tracks, that action also selects all tracks in that area on the left (don't know what SF calls it) where the mute/solo/etc controls are located.

Then, when I hit one of the mute buttons, all tracks are affected. If I touch in the blue area (somewhere away from one of the buttons (mute,solo,FX,etc) prior to hitting the mute button, the track I want to mute/unmute remains selected while all the other tracks are deselected . . . end of "problem".

My concentration, until now, had been centered on making those splits where I wanted them, making certain I didn't inadvertently split one track without splitting them all . . . which, sooner or later, can lead to loss of alignment (sync) between tracks. I hadn't noticed that selecting all tracks on the timeline also lit up the "blue" "control area" at the left of the timeline.

Anyhow, that's why I was getting messed up.

Thanks for attempting to help me. Perhaps reading this will help someone else avoid the same frustration (albeit minor) that I experienced.

Caruso

I hadn't noticed that selecting all tracks on the timeline also lit up the "blue" "control area" at the left of the timeline.
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If you click on a blank area of the timeline, you can split clips on all tracks without selecting any clips or tracks.

Craig H.

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Caruso,

I was having a similiar problem the other day. Basically doing what you are doing but using CRTL A to select everything so I could split all tracks easily, ie Crtl A plus S.
Like you say, everything is selected, but what doesn't make sense to me is that when I click on a clip of video, I would think everything else would deselect. The other clips in deselect, but the left side doesn't. I know now to select one of tracks on the left basically degroup them, so that when I mute or solo a track, only that one is affected and not all of them.

Wayne