When I dragged a video on the timeline, I noticed that you can stretch out the clip and create an endless loop from the same clip... how do I disable that?
Select the events in timeline / Right click / choose Switches and uncheck the option Loop.
Or maybe this will help you?
Is there an option that prevents the clip from being extended after its finished?
Don't know what that means. An Event is a media clip after putting it on the timeline. It has a beginning and an end. Not more. What are you doing to extend?
You can trim the event on the timeline to the desired last freeze frame. Out of this event you can create a subclip (right mouse button - create subclip). This has the length of the event and can be expanded. It's one solution for freeze frames.
@j-v Sorry, I really don't know how to word it correctly. I'm new to Vegas and I'm trying to get the hang of everything.
So if you disable the loop, you can still extend the media clip (event), but if do... all you will see is a blank screen. The media clip is still endless but without it repeating the footage. For example... I have an 18 second clip... but Vegas allows you to extend the size of that event on the timeline, so if you extend it after the 18 seconds (with the loop disabled) all you will see is a blank screen.
Just now I noticed that if you do extend the event after the footage ends, Vegas adds a small marker where it starts to repeat/end. I attached a screenshot that I hope will make more sense of what I'm trying to say...
The red part is the footage, the blank part next to it appears when that media clip is extended. Between the footage and the blank part is a small marker on the top (where the yellow line is) that indicates where the footage ends. That's pretty much all I wanted to know... where in the media clip does it reaches its end.
You will get a freeze frame.
If the last frame is blank, you will get a blank freeze frame.
@Former user @j-v @matthias-krutz @Musicvid Thanks for the responses! Just now I noticed that Vegas leaves a marker on the top of the event if you extend it even further.
If you like to call it "extending" you must know for yourself, but we don't call it that way. Extending is lenghtening an event when the placed event is shorter than the ( Media-)clip you are using. Such an event you can lengthen by dragging both sides of it untill the beginning or end of that Mediaclip. At the begin there is nothing you can do more and at the end you can choose by the screenshot I gave you to repeat or to freeze.
But that is only for a video event.
An audio event becomes without signal and a still event stays still for the rest of your extension.