I usually make a timeline selection around the part that I want and then right-click and choose Open in Trimmer. Then from the trimmer window I right-click and drag the highlighted area to the place I want it on the timeline and when I drop it, I select Audio Only | Across Time or Video Only | Across Time as needed from the popup menu.

~jr

Jay,
you may also highlight the video; ungroup it (the letter U); then copy and paste, no?
... works in 9.0e ...

Until that time ... Earl J.

Why I don't just delete it is because I usually edit with a main Video & Audio Track, one audio track (for sound track/music) beneath, and 2 video tracks above. The top tracks are just to "patch" over bad parts of the main video track or used to store "highlights" for later editing.

When I cut and paste to a top video track, Vegas wants to create a new Audio track to go along with it. Though tedious (I do a lot of patch work!) it is manageable but my real problem is the process of adding a new audio track slows down my single core computer - plus it really slows my editing because I probably make about 700 cut paste per video I produce.

I think this might be a bug in Vegas 10?

Again, here is what I am referring to:

-Drop a new clip on the time-line (video & audio)
-Create a new video track above the main video+audio track
-Select a region on the time-line, right click on the video portion of the selected clip and chose ' copy' on pop up menu
-Set your cursor on the top, blank video track right click and select "paste"
Result: I a new audio track is created!

Now, try this.

-Turn off event grouping
-split the video in the middle and create a gap
-Turn back on event grouping
-Select, Copy, and Paste as above - tada - now the audio track no longer goes along for the ride!

You did not have to ungroup and split a clip in Vegas 5.0 before you could just copy and paste Video (or audio) only.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Not having Vegas 5 installed anywhere i can't confirm. However, what you are seeing in version 10 is what i would expect to have happen.

I can think of a lot of ways to achieve what you want. However, enabling Ignore Event Grouping before copy & paste is probably the fastest and simplest way.

Well the fastest method is right click -copy - right click - paste bar none. It is also nice not to have to worry about forgetting to put grouping back on and messing up the video-audio sync on other tracks.

If I want both to grab the audio too on a cut/past, I just control-click the audio before right click copy/paste.

I hope Sony didn't change this on purpose or there is a setting to revert the changes.

You have got it, although in a rather convoluted way . . .
Hope you continue to develop your acuity with this program.

"or there is a setting to revert the changes."
Yes, it is Ctlr+Z or Edit->Undo as in all other Windows programs.

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