Bar on bottom of "text" box just disappeared!

GSTgst wrote on 11/6/2010, 12:23 AM
I'm not too sure what the technical term is, but the tracking bar / controls just disappeared at the bottom of all current and new "text" boxes. I can easily add/change text - I just can't do anything with timing because the whole bottom bar thing disappeared.

I was in the middle of a project and must have done some sequence of things and it just wasn't there anymore. Creating a new project doesn't change things with text - the whole bottom tracking bar / controls in the text box is still missing. Any idea on how to get it back?

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Chienworks wrote on 11/6/2010, 5:45 AM
It's called they keyframe timeline.

First, you may have made the window smaller. Try dragging the bottom edge down to make the window bigger. Alternatively you can double-click on the title bar to make it automatically resize large enough to show all the controls.

If that doesn't work, Vegas has a very puzzling feature (which i have yet to discover a reason or use for) that lets you drag the top of the keyframe area down below the bottom of the window. Hover the mouse pointer just barely above the bottom edge of the window and it may change into a double headed up&down arrow. When it does, drag up and it should drag the keyframe timeline back into view.
OhMyGosh wrote on 11/6/2010, 8:42 AM
Another trick that works most of the time is to double click the top of the window you are working with, and it will restore the window to show all of it's options. Let us know. Cin
Tim L wrote on 11/6/2010, 11:09 AM
I've seen complaints about this over the years, and usually suggested the "double click the window title bar" solution if I was one of the first responders, but then it actually happened to me a couple months ago (Vegas Pro 8) and I don't think the double-click thing fixed the problem. No matter how big you stretched the FX window, the timeline did not reappear.

The timeline itself is kind of like a window-within-a-window, and it was like the timeline window got shrunk down to 0 height (stuck at the bottom of the FX window)-- not that the FX window simply wasn't big enough to show it.

I think the problem occurred when I accidentally docked the FX window -- trying to just move it elsewhere on the screen but then accidentally docked it in the window with the media pool, etc.

I don't remember exactly what I did to restore it. I might have tried re-docking it and then undocking it, or I might have done it like Kelly (Chienworks) suggests. Part of the trick is making the FX window big enough (double-click the header probably works) then going down to the bottom of the window and "dragging up" the top of a timeline window you can't really see.

It was definitely a puzzling situation when I experienced it firsthand.

Tim L
GSTgst wrote on 11/6/2010, 2:04 PM
It was indeed the "puzzling feature" that you wrote about. The top of that keyframe area was draged down to the bottom so it was invisable. Puting the cursor all the way at the bottom changed the cursor's appearance, and I was then able to drag it back open again. THANK YOU!!!!!