You might try using the free Auto Save custom command that installs when you install Excalibur. Even if you don't purchase Excalibur, it will continue to work. Just install Excalibur and then go to Tools - Extensions - Auto Save.

kairosmatt, I think you meant to type CTRL+S :-)
BTW, the default appears to be 5 min., not 10.

If you don't want to do as jetdv (Edward Troxel) suggests and install Excalibur (and why you wouldn't, I don't know!!), you can lower the autosave timing value by going into the Internal Prefs in Vegas (hold down the Shift key while opening Prefs and then click on the Internal tab) and changing the value of msAutoSaveInternal from it's default of 300,000 (milliseconds, that is) to whatever you want.

Be advised that playing around with the Internal Prefs can be dangerous to your health as, if you don't know what your doing, you can mess up Vegas and drive yourself crazy :-(
Forewarned is forearmed.

Mike

Ah, I did mean CNTR+S.

The great thing about having that habit is it is transferable between programs.

Sometimes, while I stare at the monitor and try and think of what to do next, I realize that I've hit CNTR+S several times in a row without doing any work!

kairosmatt

I'm staring at my keyboard and I don't see a CNTR button anywhere.
Does the Bahamas have a special keyboard that I don't know about :-)

Mike

It's BTTR in the Bahamas.

Dave T2

Actually if i recall semi-correctly, my first Apple// keyboard had a "CNTR" key. I remember being very confused when the next model had "CTRL" key instead.

Then again, i've never seen a control key so small that it wouldn't have easily held the entire word "Control", so i'm not sure why it's abbreviated anyway. Some things just don't need to be shorter. And that reminds me of the original TRS-80 Model 1 BASIC, which had an abbreviation for every statement made up of enough characters to be unique, plus a period. That meant that the abbreviation for "READ" was "REA." and for "RESET" was "RESE.". Kinda makes you wonder what the point was.

Curses!

I think this is the first time I've realized that it is actually CTRL (And I had to look at the keyboard just then to make sure!)

That's why I love this forum, I'm always learning something new...

kairosmatt

So it's NOT better in the Bahamas after all?
I'm SO disappointed :-)

Mike

Maybe its BTTR...

Wish I could say its cause I grew up in a hammock under a coconut tree and was never exposed to these things called 'computers.'

kairosmatt

rs170a ,

Thanks that is CRAZY interesting... SHIFT-Prefs!

And I'll give Excalibur 15 day trial a shot next multi-cam project I start.

-Gord

Thanks, I have looked at Excalibur (promo video) based on responses here, but I will wait on installing Trial until I'm starting a fresh project. RAZOR import eh? That'd be something... got some old RAZOR CD-ROM archives I may have kept, may have thrown out.