How to cut a clip in half...exactly

liquid wrote on 1/8/2011, 2:43 PM

In acid there's a way, I can't remember exactly, but if you have a clip, you can hold down alt and cut and it'll slice up your track in regular intervals. Is there a way to do this in Vegas? Or lets say I have a clip, is there a function to just slice it in half automatically, and exactly?

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altarvic wrote on 1/8/2011, 3:43 PM

These tasks can be easily accomplished using scripts. Vegasaur contains tools that allow you to split events in many ways. I'm sure that other scripting tools have similar features, too.

xberk wrote on 1/8/2011, 3:43 PM

No function like that in Vegas that I know of ... no doubt a script could be written to do this ..

baysidebas wrote on 1/8/2011, 5:19 PM

Just a quick question: to what purpose? And what if the clip doesn't have an even number of frames? "in half, exactly" then becomes meaningless.

liquid wrote on 1/8/2011, 7:59 PM

Good point. Well, I have a clip that I'm moving copy pasting for effect, and then I want to take just half that clip and copy past again, and then do it again. Think of a drum roll in dance music, which is actually what I'm cutting too.

Chienworks wrote on 1/9/2011, 4:42 AM

Why bother? Do the edit in ACID, render to a new .wav fie, use this new file in the Vegas project. Just because you have multiple tools doesn't mean you have to do the entire project with only one of them.

liquid wrote on 1/9/2011, 6:01 AM

It's video that I want to edit so I'd rather stick to Vegas and I don't think I can edit video in Acid anyway no?