Disabling the loop feature...is it possible?

wordman wrote on 10/13/2009, 1:26 PM

Hello everyone,

I am brand new to Vegas Pro 9 and overall am enjoying it immensely. I have stepped up from the ranks of Pinnacle and although VP9 is quite an elaborate program, I am finding that it is easy to learn and am successfully rendering videos.

As with anything new, there is always a large number of quirks and tricks to learn. My first problem stems from the loop feature. Can I turn it off? It is causing me grief and this is certainly not a feature I use in my clips. it is creating problems when I assemble clips, most notably is the clip not ending at the last frame, but running past my end credit on the timeline then looping back to where the cursor was last placed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

wordman

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 10/13/2009, 1:45 PM

Yes, there is a loop icon in your navigation bar. Click it to turn looping off.

rs170a wrote on 10/13/2009, 3:04 PM

Options - Prefs - Editing - Enable looping on events by default.
Disable this option to have it off permanently.

Mike

wordman wrote on 10/13/2009, 5:16 PM

Thanks to both of you! I'll give it a shit.

Cheers,

wordman

musicvid10 wrote on 10/13/2009, 6:10 PM

I'll give it a shit.

Surely a typo??
But if not, I'll give it one, too.
;?)

rstrong wrote on 10/13/2009, 7:04 PM

Yeaaay.............let's all give it a shit!

Editguy43 wrote on 10/13/2009, 8:39 PM

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love the typo's keeps life interesting....

farss wrote on 10/14/2009, 2:36 AM

Maybe some don't give a s***t about this but I do.

Here's what gives me the s***ts. Yes you can stop it looping but you can't stop the loop thing getting in the way. Sometimes my finger slips when moving the cursor and presto, I have a loop region, grrr.

Is there anyway to stop the creation of the region entirely?

I promise to give all suggestions a fair shake :)

Bob.

rs170a wrote on 10/14/2009, 2:45 AM

Bob, is "Options - Prefs - Editing - Collapse loop region when no time selection is present" what you're looking for?

Mike

Chienworks wrote on 10/14/2009, 3:25 AM

I've never found that option to be of any use whatsoever. If i don't need the loop region then i can ignore it. Visually it may bug me a bit, but i can train myself to pretend it's not there and it doesn't affect my editing flow at all.

On the other hand, there are times i would like to make a time selection *without* changing the loop region i have set! What i want is an option that divorces time selection and loop region creation completely. That's the one that bugs me.

rs170a wrote on 10/14/2009, 3:44 AM

Kelly, the reason I leave it off is is so that I don't get caught accidentally rendering only a loop region instead of the entire timeline :-(

Mike

farss wrote on 10/14/2009, 4:45 AM

"Bob, is "Options - Prefs - Editing - Collapse loop region when no time selection is present" what you're looking for?"

No. That makes the situation worse. What happens then is if I did by intent create a looped region and it looses focus, it's gone. Most annoying.

The thing is this:
Click moves the cursor aka playhead.
Click+Drag over an event moves the event.
Click+Drag also creates a loop region.

It's the whole having to watch out for WHERE in the T/L pane you do something that's the core issue I have I suspect. I'd like something like Caps Lock to lock the functionality of the mouse to only move the playhead.

Bob.

vtxrocketeer wrote on 10/14/2009, 4:53 AM

Pressing "Q" toggles the looping feature on/off ( = dark blue / greyish, respectively) once a time selection is made. Won't this satisfy everyone? I just leave looping off, not caring where the greyish bar at the top of the timeline appears, until I need to loop.

Steve

DaveM2 wrote on 10/14/2009, 9:21 PM

Reading Wordman's original post - I thought he was talking about the fact that you can drag an event out longer than it's media length - and it keeps looping,,,, and that has been really strange thing to me too.

My experience is that turning off looping by unchecking "Options - Prefs - Editing - Enable looping on events by default. " causes the looping to basically freeze frame at the end of the clips length - which is somewhat helpful - but not what I was looking for. Another thing I used to do was to uncheck "loop" by right clicking on each event, choosing "switches".

I am wondering if there is a way to stop an event's length at the end of the media data so that the event cannot be stretched out into a looping pattern - freeze frame of not.