Can I avoid gaps between frames?

OCVQ wrote on 5/26/2013, 2:08 PM

I am currently doing animated Claymation shorts for my students and wondering if I can avoid one time-consuming step. When I drag a couple hundred photos onto my timeline all at once, Vegas groups them in twos with a tiny gap between the next two, so that I have to manually drag each photo and but it up against the previous ones to get seamless playback. Any way to avoid this? I tried changing the format of my ruler thinking that Vegas is trying to do something with even timing. I tried disabling snapping thinking that might play into it but no luck. My preferences are set to a default still length of 7 frames.

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musicvid10 wrote on 5/26/2013, 4:32 PM

1. Turn "Quantize to Frames" On.
2. Turn "Enable Snapping" On.

That's it. This won't automatically snap existing projects, however. You'll have to do that by hand.

OCVQ wrote on 5/26/2013, 5:21 PM

Thank you!!! Huge time saver. I'm doing 10 of these projects.

musicvid10 wrote on 5/26/2013, 11:51 PM

Not only a huge timesaver, but snapping events to frame boundaries is a requirement of nonlinear editing.

Turning off those options is there for fine tweaking audio events, only.