Clip length confusion

auggybendoggy wrote on 4/25/2010, 6:58 AM
Everyone,
I've had this confusion since I first began using Vegas.

Suppose I drop a text clip on the timeline. Now suppose that clip is 5 seconds long. If I extend it out, by pulling the tail end of the clip, a small traingle shows at the top showing the true end of the clip. Anything I do will repeat.

How do I make that clip longer like 7 seconds.

I've tried going into properties and editing the length to what I want and all key frames and other work modules show it as 7 seconds but the triangle shows only 5 and the clip stops animating at 5???

I've even tried animating at 6 but once the playhead hits the 5 second triangle, it's like vegas thinks to stop playing at that point though there is still 2 seconds of animation left?

I think I'm simply missing something about how Vegas works.

Auggy

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auggybendoggy wrote on 4/25/2010, 7:03 AM
Also, the pro titler clip is animated in keyframes to 7 seconds and the pro titler shows the animation running to 7.

Vegas simply stops it at 5 seconds where that little triangle is.

Auggy
xberk wrote on 4/25/2010, 7:29 AM
Auggie -- open the Generated Media Text event (what you called the text clip) and change the length. Length is at the top of the window. See screenshot below.

Text event length

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auggybendoggy wrote on 4/25/2010, 3:19 PM
Xberk,
I've tried all that.

Now I did some testing and found that a 7.00 second text meda pulled to 11. senconds.

I then change the length in the properties (which also changes it in the media window - at the top) and the triangle moved from the 7 second to near 10. Weired because you wuold think since the length is 11 it would move all the way to the end????

I'm wondering if it's a bug.

Odd.

Aug
xberk wrote on 4/25/2010, 4:30 PM
Weired because you wuold think since the length is 11 it would move all the way to the end????

In 7.0d -- 8.0c and 9.0d --- it does for me. I can't reproduce this on any of my systems. Weird for sure -- but I don't think it's a bug.

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lryfall wrote on 4/27/2010, 1:05 PM
mine does something similar, my theory is 'once you put the length in at the beginning(creating it) that length dictates the animation length. So, even though it shows that you can lengthen it, the original length will still dictate the 'animation' time. I'm not a pro at it by any means, but I've tried all I know to try and get similar results. Also, it seems to depend on what fx or whatever change is made, how long the animation will last. So, if it HAS to change exactly, I just start over. Anyone else know what we are doing wrong?
richard-amirault wrote on 4/27/2010, 6:58 PM
So, if it HAS to change exactly, I just start over. Anyone else know what we are doing wrong?

Haven't tried it .. but how about changing the time *first* before stretching it out?