Grouping, ungrouping then regrouping events,

DWhitevidman wrote on 1/14/2010, 9:12 AM
Ok, been using Vegas for years 5, 7 now Pro 8, but grouping continues to frustrate me.

I was given pictures to scan and make a slideshow with, 6 pm the day before a wedding rehearsal and got it done around midnight. It was ok, but not perfect.

I've now started on the full wedding video and have copied and pasted the picture presentation of the couple growing up, and need to fine tune it, making various changes.

Here's my frustration. To group and copy the slideshow I did a "select to end" on the pics, then held the ctrl key and individually added three songs, a wav file and two media events, grouped them, then moved to the wedding production.

I needed to move one song a few seconds earlier so I clicked on it, hit U to ungroup, moved the song along the time line. However then when I click on the remainder of the events which should be still grouped, there are some of the other events which are not grouped. If I ctrl select them, the song and hit G to group, if I click off the events and then click on any of them to select the entire group again they aren't all a single group.

The only way I seem to be able to fix this is to laboriously ungroup everything individually, then start over as I initially did? What the heck am I doing wrong?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/14/2010, 9:31 AM
You're not doing anything wrong. Vegas doesn't have levels of grouping. When you pressed U to ungroup that one item what actually happened is that the entire group is dissolved. No way around that, sorry.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 1/14/2010, 9:44 AM
An easier way may hahve been to hit 'ignore event grouping', move the event you want moved and then undo ignore event grouping.
dcrandall wrote on 1/14/2010, 9:45 AM
Once you've set-up a Group and you wish to move an Event, but preserve the Group setting, then I find that it's best to click (enable) the "Ignore Event Grouping" ICON, move the Event, then re-click (disable) the "Ignore Event Grouping" ICON rather than using the "Ungroup" (U) command.
-Dan
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DWhitevidman wrote on 1/14/2010, 10:27 AM
Wow, thanks ya'll, the "Ignore Event Grouping" does the trick. I guess I need to hit the books and review all Vegas can do, just in case I run up to something new like this again.