Events problem

lesko wrote on 5/24/2014, 5:24 AM
In parts of the timeline in Vegas 13 the events now are almost in a mess. I have problem with deleting events, and I can "find" 2,3,4 or more of the same event on top of each other. When trying to make a crossfade, the two events just are "cutting" part of each other, without makin a crossfade. I was aware of this problem some years ago in Vegas 9 or 10, but it fixed itself and I did not recognize how.
This makes it a bit difficult to edit, so who has an idea what to do? As I said, this problem only occurs in parts of my work, and the computer has a new installation without virus....

Leif

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Arthur.S wrote on 5/24/2014, 7:31 AM
When you say "on top of each other" do you mean on different tracks?

The crossfade problem could just be auto crossfades is switched off. (Under options if my memory's good)
Chienworks wrote on 5/24/2014, 7:53 AM
What's happened to me sometimes is when i'm trying to stretch/shrink events by holding the Ctrl key down, sometimes i miss the edge of the event and end up dragging the event itself instead of the edge. When this happens with the Ctrl key down Vegas copies the event.

Then there are also the occasional brain dead times when i want to move an event and forgot my finger was still holding the Ctrl key down.

If you're not paying very close attention these things can go unnoticed and you'll end up with stacks of duplicate events.
john_dennis wrote on 5/24/2014, 8:23 AM
From the Menu at the top of the screen:

View / Edit Details / Show: Events

For overlapping events, you will see a list of the events with the same start and end times. You can delete unwanted duplicates from the Edit Details window.
lesko wrote on 5/24/2014, 3:39 PM
You said:
"When you say "on top of each other" do you mean on different tracks?

The crossfade problem could just be auto crossfades is switched off. (Under options if my memory's good)"

When I say "on top of each other" I mean on the same track. I have to delete the event from 2 to six times to remove this event from the timeline. There are a lot of copies under each other. If i'm trying to move this event to left or rigth, the "underlying" copy can be seen. As I said I can find a lot of copies of the same event under each other, and some times 5 or six copies lies under each other on the timeline, And I have not added those events there.

The auto crossfade is not switched off

I don't have this problem all over the timeline, only 3 to 4 minutes of my 20 min timeline. All these events are HD footage from the same camcorder......

These 20 minutes are part of an one-hour video, so it's very important to solve this problem before everything can be messed up.

NormanPCN wrote on 5/24/2014, 7:43 PM



I too tend to do brain dead things, bad clicks, ctrl key held and such.

This is why I love the Auditor tools that scan the project and find the silly things. I have Vegasaur which has an auditor built in that can find all kinds of things. There are others like from VASST.

Going slightly off topic but related and folks might find it useful if they did not know about Auditors.
lesko wrote on 5/25/2014, 2:39 PM
Thanks for the answers. In a way, Vegas has copied events on my timeline, and I found up to 8 copies of some events. I don't know how this has occured, but I can solve this problem in a proper way. I have not used the CTRL key as described. As I said, something strange has happened, but I do not know what.