Calculating Time differences

Maverick wrote on 11/8/2003, 12:50 PM

Is there a quick but smart application that can easliy work out the differences between two points on the time line in seconds and frames.

At present I do it manually - or is this facility already within V4 and I just haven't noticed it.

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 11/8/2003, 12:55 PM

Close... If you drag above the timeline, selecting a range, Vegas will give you a real time read out at the extreme right below the tracks.

Grazie wrote on 11/8/2003, 1:02 PM

Blimey! I didn't know that . . .D'yer know what BB? If you have selected a range, and click on say the second little window and reduce the values, say by 1 second, your selection moves down the t/l by one second - this is very useful indeed.

Another hidden virtue to this s/w.

G

BillyBoy wrote on 11/8/2003, 1:06 PM

For Grazie:

http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/109

Grazie wrote on 11/8/2003, 1:11 PM

HIC! Hic Hic . . . 8~()

. . thanks BB . . I needed that . .did you see my "Can't Reopen Post"?

G

BillyBoy wrote on 11/8/2003, 1:17 PM

Didn't see that one, must have been below the fold.

Anyways, I found it now.

Will add a few words in that thread.

jetdv wrote on 11/8/2003, 9:05 PM

Grazie,

These three timecode boxes are discussed in Issue #8 of the Newsletter.

Did you know you can also double-click them and type in numbers?

Former user wrote on 11/8/2003, 9:53 PM

You can also CTRL-G and type in a timecode either absolute or + or -.

Dave T2

Grazie wrote on 11/8/2003, 11:49 PM

Thanks Ed, - Did you read my post here, where I was talking about "entering" numbers to adjust the ranged area?

I'll re-read No8 thanks - Sometimes I only take onboard what I want, at that time - yeah?

Grazie

MarkWWW wrote on 11/9/2003, 8:25 AM

Similarly, you can copy/paste times into this "Cursor Position" box.

This is useful to make up for what I regard as a missing feature - the absence of the ability to select an item in the Edit Details window and choose to jump to its location (like you can from the Markers/Regions lists in Sound Forge). But you can copy the relevant time from the Edit Details window and then paste it into the Cursor Position box which achieves the same thing in a rather more roundabout way.

Let's hope when V5 arrives it will have a neater method for doing this - perhaps a right-click Goto option from the Edit Details window -but until then the copy/paste method can be used.

Mark