Difficult to explain, but hope someone can help

Andry wrote on 1/7/2005, 6:26 AM

My problem is difficult to explain but I hope someone can understand and be able to explain what I'm doing wrong.

I capture my video. Then I delete some pieces by highlighting the section I want to delete and then pressing the delete key. Then by highlighting the first clip after the big gap that has been deleted I right click on it and press 'select to end' (I believe that's what it's called). Then I drag the rest of the video to the left to fill in the gap that I deleted.

I also added some transitions to a couple of places in the video and stretched (I forgot the term) them so that the duration was longer for the actual transition.

The Problem: 1 - Transitions appear all of a sudden in the middle the video where I am certain I did not place a transition. 2 - There are also very small pieces of video that is really from lets say the beginning of the video, but it is in the middle of the video. But it is just showing up on the timeline, but really when I play that section to see if the piece of clip shows up, it doesn't. Or it does, but so briefly you can't even tell what flashed during the video.

In the end, once I burned my DVD, I saw that there were 3 transitions of the circle kind in three different places when I had only chose it once.

If anyone can explain this to me, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm assuming it has to do with me dragging the video to replace the gap where I deleted video. Or I accidentally trimmed the video where it looped in different places? Please explain what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks ahead of time for whoever is so kind to take the time to read my message and give me some answers.

Andry

Comments

farss wrote on 1/7/2005, 6:59 AM

Did you have Ripple on when you were doing this?
Did you have Quantize to Frames on?
I'd suggest you make certain Ripple is OFF and QTF is ON then drag your clips apartso you've got a clear spce between then, make certain you haven't got one over the top of another. Also you say 'stretched', it's possible you've extend the duration of one clip so it overlaps another.
Or if you apply and FX to an event and then cut the event into smaller events all those separate events have the FX applied.
Hope this gives you some sort of clue, certainly what you see when you play back on the timeline is what you should see in your DVD.
Bob.

Andry wrote on 1/7/2005, 7:09 AM

Thank you, I think I did have ripple on last night. I will do as you suggested tonight to see if I get better results. I still don't quite understand what ripple does. I will learn by trial and error, but I needed to pointed in the right direction of where my error was.

Thanks again.

Andry

farss wrote on 1/7/2005, 7:36 AM

What Ripple is supposed to do is this.
If you cut something out of the middle it should move everything after to fill the gap. Where things get messy is when you have multiple tracks and events grouped. Say you have one track of A/V that you've cut in several places and then you add a trck of music. Now you decide to cut something from the A/V tracks, unless you're very careful you can also cut a section out of your music track which quite likely you didn't want to happen.
THe other trap to watch for is that unlike most NLEs Vegas treats the camera audio and video pair with no special consideration, they're just a grouped pair of tracks. Cut them and you can loose the grouping, now delete a portion of video and you may discover that ONLY the video portion gets deleted. That's OK to deal with unless you have Ripple on. In that case the remaining A/V track slides left so you get the two bits of audio overlaying one another.
Bob,

Andry wrote on 1/7/2005, 12:25 PM

Thanks, that makes perfect sense. What I still don't understand is what would have caused bits of my video to move somewhere random on the timeline of my video. That I could not figure out, but I'm sure time will tell.

Thanks for all of your help.