Ctrl+Alt+Shift Click to Split and drag

JohnAsh wrote on 11/22/2009, 12:34 PM
I am a relatively new refugee from Adobe Premiere to Vegas Pro as the latter handles HDV from my new camera pretty well. But I am still struggling to adapt my editing style.

I recently found that version 9 has the feature: "Hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking an event to split it. You can then drag from that point to trim the event in the direction you drag".

I think I would use this a lot but my fingers are not really nimble enough to hold down three keys and then click with the other hand. I could certainly not do this quickly and easily. What a combination!

I looked in the Keyboard mapping options but could not find a way to remap this command.

Any ideas, please?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/22/2009, 12:43 PM
It seems unnecessary to me. If you're going to press a key anyway, just press S (no modifiers) to split at the cursor position, then trim as normal.
JohnAsh wrote on 11/24/2009, 10:15 AM
I was attracted by it as I get frustrated by clicking on scene to select, pressing S to split, then click/drag to trim. Then I find I've split the audio when I didn't want to coz I had not noticed "Ignore Grouping" was not on. So I undo and start all over again.

In Premiere all it took was one click with the Razor tool (holding down ALT, to ignore grouping -or "link). So much easier (for me!).

Also I could ALT-Drag the video or audio portion of a clip to ignore the linking (or grouping). In Vegas, again, I have to be aware as to whether IgnoreGrouping is On or Off. I am really struggling.
JackW wrote on 11/24/2009, 12:22 PM
You can position the cursor where you want the split to occur, hold down the Control key and click on the track you want to split, which will high light that track, then hit the "S" key. Only the high lighted track will split.

Jack
JohnAsh wrote on 11/24/2009, 12:42 PM
Thanks for the tip, Jack. I'll give it a try.

John
farss wrote on 11/24/2009, 12:47 PM
You've still got to wrangle Event Grouping. I too still miss the Razor.

Bob.