I have been using the "a paste" as well as "paste insert". This method isn't so much the "how to" it is the "end result" of the way VV handles the inserts. For example - the other day I was doing a 'directors' cut of the film (I was doing a Dp's cut because the director vanished for about 5 months and no one knew how the film was supposed to be cut because he was the only person with a complete script - don't ask) and overall using "paste" or "paste insert" made not one bit of differance. At one point I had the mystery problem happen - I selected the end of a scene/cut and "inserted" at that point. Instead of placing it after the cut it just plopped everything down on top of the next scene and rippled everything a few cuts down the line. So I did an undo and tried again...same thing. Did not matter if I used "paste" or "paste insert", the results were the same. This tied me up for about 15 minutes of doing various things - maunally placing the cursor at the in point, using the ] key to go to the end of the event - It just would not insert and ripple the way it was supposed to. I think I finally just put the insert on the top most video track and pulled everything down as a group after. The thing is when it did finally work the "black frame/gap" thing happened except it inserted correct but moved the next cut creating a long gap. I just manually pulled everything up after that. All extra work caused by some weird bug that only happens to some people some of the time and none of the people most of the time. :)

I know some people like to jump in at this point and make a "You must be doing something wrong, I never have this problem - vegas is perfect" comment. But I stress again this is something that happens and as of yet I can not seem to find any rhyme or reason. Aside from a few single frame gaps being put in every now and than (And believe me I zoom in and look after every edit now - an extra step but one that is needed) the assembly I was doing went along ok except for this one insert. Nothing changed - all before and all after was done using the same "paste" insert method.

Now - the other thing that I have made mention of as far as inserts go is selecting what goes where. the "paste insert" does not adress that at all - whatever you "cut" or "copy" is simply pasted, starting on the track that is "selected". You are not asked what audio track you want to place audio on. So if I have, say, a track layout of V1, V2, A1, A2, A3 and I "select" V1 as my insert track VV will automaticly place a new audio track under V1.

So to answer your question of "Try this with different Ripple settings Does this behave more the way you would expect?" I would have to say - on the "paste" or "paste insert" method - yes because in will "insert" and, most of the time, ripple fine. But on the slection - no, because there really isn't any user interaction (ie: I want video to go on V2, and Audio 1 to go on A4) other than just clicking one track and pasting.