Easy Vegas question

Ghost Tree wrote on 8/13/2012, 7:35 AM

Let's see if I can describe this issue. If one is working with multiple clips, when you slide a clip along the timeline and align the clip with another clip, normally a glowing blue line appears to tell you the two clips are aligned and that there won't be any black space between the two clips. Well, the glowing blue line doesn't appear any more. How to get it back?

Actually maybe that glowing blue line is actually yellow? been a long time since I've seen it....

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Chienworks wrote on 8/13/2012, 7:50 AM

Under options, do you have Enable snapping selected?

Ghost Tree wrote on 8/13/2012, 9:03 AM

well that solved it. Is that what snapping is? Blue line to show clips aligned?

JJKizak wrote on 8/13/2012, 12:06 PM

Yeah. And also when the sound is out of sync the track goes to pink.
JJK

mudsmith wrote on 8/13/2012, 2:58 PM

Snapping, as a general term in any DAW or NLE, just means that when you move a clip along the timeline it will magnetically move to some set of things you describe......like markers, the edge of other clips (what we are talking about at the moment), timeline grid lines, etc.

The point being that you don't have to zoom all the way in to make sure you are all the way there, which can be an especially big deal in audio if you are talking about a sample accurate edit, but matters for larger things like video frames, too.

Snapping can also be a problem if you are trying to move something close to, but not right at, a marker, clip edge, grid line, etc.. Because of this, you need to be able to turn it off.

I forget whether Vegas allows you to select which things you will snap to (like not to markers, but yes to clip edges, etc.), but I think it does. Most programs do.