Disappearing keyframes

TonyRL wrote on 1/5/2012, 10:18 PM
My problem, is that I'm setting up a simple title that scrolls in from the right of the screen using keyframes (starting with the default preset text event), I also adjust the tracking with the keyframe. After I've set up a title, I want to copy and paste it along the timeline to use it again. When I do this the keyframe settings are gone from each subsequent pasted event. Worse still after setting up all the keyframes settings in each of the text events, I save and close Vegas. When I come back in all the keyframes are gone, I just have a starting keyframe with the settings I chose for that keyframe.
Thanks
Tony


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Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/6/2012, 5:06 AM
I don't know that keyframes will copy with each subsequent copy of an event. But, as I say in my book, you can always do this.

Select an event, right-click and select Copy.
Select another event (or several events), right-click and select Paste Attributes.

This should copy any effects, adjustments and motion path keyframes from the original clip to the others. (Assuming, of course, that the effects or motion paths are applied to the event and not the track.)
TonyRL wrote on 1/7/2012, 3:43 PM
Steve,
Thanks, but that didn't work either. I also still can't figure out why the key frames all go away on closing the project, everything else saves correctly but my keyframes are gone. I've started using the default text from the legacy text category , and that's working the way I would expect.
dk101 wrote on 1/14/2012, 10:14 AM
TonyRL,

i tried doing almost the same thing (without copying, any mine has key frames on Y coordinate only) and i keep losing all key frames apart from the very first time on every save and re-open. This is very annoying. glad it is not just me.

how does one report a bug to sony or is there a work-around?

thanks!


d
TonyRL wrote on 1/19/2012, 2:56 PM
d,
I emailed the question to Sony tech support, I finally got this response:
"There is a known issue listed in the database where the key frames move beyond the duration of the event. This is listed to be resolved in a future update of the application. "

I'm a bit puzzled by this response, it's not very explanatory, and there's no indication when it will be fixed. Keyframing is pretty fundamental to my mind, and I'm wondering what everyone else is doing to get around this. Is there really just two of us that have noticed this?
I did find that I could use the legacy text event just fine. Key frames are retained.
Tony
dk101 wrote on 1/21/2012, 4:36 AM
I am puzzled too. Keyframes are fundamental to using the tool for anything more advanced than what you would use, say, ms movie maker. i find it difficult to believe that people use out-of-the box effects without making any changes or that they don't make their own effects. very strange.

i'll drop tech support an email too. perhaps since no one else reported this they don't think it is important.

it would be interesting to know if this issue exists in the pro version too (i doubt it as pro without working keyframes would be, well, not very pro) :)
vkmast wrote on 1/21/2012, 6:33 AM
Regarding VegasPro, this was in the latest build Release Notes:
2.0 What’s New
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I would expect similar kinds of fixes in the next Studio update also.