Editing video separately from audio

Greenlaw wrote on 6/21/2009, 12:19 PM

Hi,

I have a quick question. When I want to trim my video track shorter than my audio, what I do is ungroup the tracks, edit my video, and then regroup the tracks. I was wondering, is this was the correct way to do this, or is there was a more direct technique I'm missing out on (i.e., a shortcut + drag)?

I'm using Vegas 9 x64, by the way. Thanks in advance for any helpful tips.

Greenlaw

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Comments

erikd wrote on 6/21/2009, 12:40 PM

Try clicking on "ignore event grouping" when you want to individually adjust the audio or video. Then turn it back off so that you can resume normal editing. I have mine setup for a keyboard command shortcut so that I am constantly toggling that button during editing which is much faster than grouping and ungrouping the events.

Erik

Greenlaw wrote on 6/21/2009, 2:03 PM

Thanks Erik! I think that is exactly the tip I was looking for.

Greenlaw

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Rhythm & Hues Studios - The Box
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Andrue wrote on 6/22/2009, 12:47 PM

I have a problem with that sometimes.

currently i worked a series which required heavy audio but basicly no video cutting.

i found that ungrouping the events was the best way to do the adjustments.

90% of the time it worked so when i had to move a chunk of clip it stuck together, but
sometimes, even though the ungroup events button was restored it seemed to separate
the tracks anyway after the split i made. i generally fix that by just deleting everything to the end and calling up a new clip and deleting up to that point which restores the grouping. that is a bit time consuming. also, sometimes it grabs audio from way before the split and moves that about also.

Tech Diver wrote on 6/22/2009, 3:32 PM

Fixing the loss of grouping relationship is much easier if you select the pieces you wish to group, then right-click, select "Group", then select "Create New". Or you can merely type "G" after your multiple selections.

Grouping is not only useful for re-establishing a lost group, but also for putting together multiple events on multiple tracks. For example, I was doing a series of complex transitions for a news broadcast style interview. The main video was on the fourth track while the transition footage was on the first, second, third, fifth and sixth. I grouped all five transition tracks together so I could move all piece at once. Furthermore, it made it very easy to copy/paste to other parts of the production because it was treated like a single entity.

Andrue wrote on 6/22/2009, 4:11 PM

Oh thank you, I knew there must be a way to fix that... and the other hint sounds great. some of my ending title credits require about 5 video tracks and 2 or 3 audio tracks and i have a really hard time selecting all of it and sliding them to where i want, typically i add a deletable text before the upper left most piece and a small audio copy to the far right on the bottom track and then shift select the whole mess, move it, then delete the parts i dont need. that sounds easier