Basic questions

flicktease wrote on 3/16/2003, 11:58 PM
What am I doing wrong? Sometime when I press 's' to make a cut I end up cutting both the audio & video, which is what I want. Other time when I press 's' all I cut is the video track. I can't work out what is differant in each instance.

When I do manage manage to cut both tracks at once, click the video track & press delete, only the video is deleted & other times both audio & video is deleted.

Once I have deleted both the audio & video for the unwanted section sometime I have to drag the clip on the right over to the left to join up with the clip on the left. Sometimes the right clip jumps to the left without me doing anything. I have an idea this this one is related to the ripple edit feature.

Sometime when I drag the right clip only the video moves & the audio is left behind.

I feel certain that all of these occurances relate to some small basic thing that I haven't got straight in my head yet.

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/17/2003, 12:16 AM
If you place the cursor via the timeline ABOVE the tracks/selection bar area, or if you place the cursor in an empty area BENEATH all the tracks, you'll cut everything under the cursor. If you select a video clip and the audio clip, you'll only split those. If you select video or audio only, you'll only split what is selected. So, either don't select, and place cursor above or below the events to be split, or deliberately select both.
that'll get you where you want to go.
cobalt wrote on 3/17/2003, 12:33 AM
I'm pretty new to VV4 but I'll give it a shot.

You probably are grouping and ungrouping events? By default when you bring a "video event" into the timeline the audio and video portion are grouped togethor so that you can move them around (and spliced them) togethor without worrying about sync.

Unfortuneatly nested groups aren't remembered when you "remove from group" So if you create a group with 3 video+audio events it will become one group. Now go and "remove from group" and you will have 3 video events and 3 audio events. The A/V parts are no longer "grouped".

It probably is adviseable to regroup most A/V events so that you don't run into syncing problems later on in the edit.

So with all the above said, when you have ANY track within a group selected and hit the S key, EVERY clip that is part of that group will be split, plus anymore that are selected.

I can see this becoming a problem for me in the future as well. I would think that groups should be nested, so that groups within groups will retain their groupiness after being released from another group. I do realized that groups of clips in a timeline are not like code snippets in HTML, so maybe this is the simple fast solution, but it would be nice to see V/A clips have the ability to retain a stronger relationship than groups if so desired.