Cannot open Event Pan/Crop window

Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/13/2012, 1:36 PM
Hello. I have a problem I asked about previously that was solved but now I can't find the solution anywhere in my previous posts.

The problem is: my display window shows only the upper left quadrant of the screen. I seem to remember that the solution before was simply that I had cropped to that area earlier and forgotten I did so. But when I try to fix it that way, the event pan/crop window doesn't open. It opens fine with other .veg files loaded into the same installation of Vegas, including earlier versions of this same .veg.

I've looked everywhere in Options, View, etc., but the only way I can find that seems like it would open this window is the usual way, via the little crop icon at the end of the long image representing the tape loaded into the track window at the bottom of the screen.

I have Vegas 11.0 Build 683 (64 bit) on a Windows 7 64-bit PC.

Thanks for your help!

Comments

Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/13/2012, 1:50 PM
Yes, the problem did turn out to be that I had cropped it that way earlier, as I discovered by going to Tools > Video > Event Pan/Crop, from which I could now open the Event Pan/Crop window after all. But even after I restore the full picture to default (full picture) status, the little crop icon at the end of the strip representing the loaded videotape has no effect. Any idea as to why?

Added a bit later... depending on what I do (I understood just what), the Event Pan/Crop window sometimes becomes openable again, but later reverts to being unopenable, with the Tools > Video > Even Pan/Crop choice grayed out as well.
rs170a wrote on 9/13/2012, 1:53 PM
Is that particular event locked?
I was working on a project yesterday and could not click on the P/C icon at all and this turned out to be the problem.

Mike
Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/13/2012, 2:57 PM
Good question. I'm effectively a newbie despite many years of using Vegas for a particular delimited task, so I don't know what locking is. How do I find out?

How did this happen? I seem to have a habit of hitting unintended combinations of keys sometimes, when (as usual, of course) I'm not looking at my fingers but at the screen. And then something weird happens, as I'm conscious that my fingers didn't strike exactly where I would have expected them to. So maybe I pressed some key combination that locks the event...