CTRL + Drag not working

Angelique wrote on 4/17/2008, 3:58 PM
Hello,

I just bought the Vegas Movie Studio and I am stumped at the first hurdle. With hypercam I made a clip of a game I play and wanted to now edit this and make it go faster. I read the tutorial on how I should hold Ctrl and drag the edge towards the left to speed up the video. This does not work. All that happens is that my cursor flies to the left top edge of my screen and will stubbornly refuse to move downwards as long as I hold Ctrl.
I also tried right clicking on the video event, going to properties and changing the playback rate. Nothing happens.
What can I do? What am I doing wrong?
I am using a Dell XPS M1730 with a touchpad mouse.
Thanks in advance for any help and advice!

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/17/2008, 4:04 PM
How did you put your video on the time line? Left click and drag?
Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2008, 4:07 PM
My first thought is that you have some weird gadget or accessory installed that is grabbing Ctrl+mouse movements and using them for some other purpose. If you can find such a thing disable it. Knowing Dell they probably preinstalled it at the factor for some bizarre or useless (to us mortal users anyway) purpose.

Changing the playback rate most likely did change the playback speed. It doesn't automatically shorten the length of the event on the timeline; you have to do that manually. Try increasing the playback rate and then play the timeline and i'm sure it will be faster. You may notice small white triangles appear along the top edge of the clip as you speed it up with playback rate. These indicate where the clip will now end and start over at the beginning again. You can regular drag (not Ctrl) the end of the clip back to the first one of these to trim it to the new length.
Angelique wrote on 4/17/2008, 4:16 PM
Terry Esslinger: I clicked on File in the top left corner and double clicked the file I wanted and there it was in the video time line thingy.

Chienworks thanks for trying to help! Yes the vid does play faster when I play it in the preview. But according to the time marker for the event it is still 2hours and half long. I tried dragging how you suggested but that just cropped the clip. :o/
Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2008, 5:40 PM
Angelique, that's what is supposed to happen. Use the playback rate to make it play faster, then use regular drag to change the end of the event on the timeline to match where the end of the now-faster video is. Look for the little white triangles.
Angelique wrote on 4/17/2008, 9:41 PM
When I say it cropped the clip I mean to say that it cut whole chunks of the clip off. What I would like to do, is to keep the whole clip but just make it play faster so that the clip will not be 2 hours long. And then I would like to save it render it and upload it to youtube where clips may not be longer than 10 minutes.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/17/2008, 10:45 PM
Angelique,
The reason I asked hjow you got the clip on the time line was to see if the left click drag was working rihyt in other circumstances. Try to drag a clip from the media pool to the time line. Does it work?