How to lock up?

Swede wrote on 11/12/2003, 2:51 AM
I click the "Insert Text Media" and at first the window was placed in the middle of the screen and was perfect. But for some reason I don't know it went down and filled a great part of the screen. And I can't work with Vegas when it is that way. I want to have it flouted on the screen and not docked in the bottom and filled the whole bottom from corner to corner. And it is impossible to drag it. It is locked. How can I again have the "Insert Text Media window" uplocked and flouted in the middle of the screen?

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PeterWright wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:11 AM
Look down the left edge of the window - there is a "raised" line Use this to pick the window up and place it where you like.
Swede wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:24 AM
No, I am sorry, I look down the left edge to find a "raised" line, I searched and clicked and dragged everywhere for about 5 minutes and nothing were find and nothing happend. The window is locked and docked from the left corner to the right and I can't move it (only upward)!
PeterWright wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:47 AM
I have again reproduced what you describe.

The "raised" line I mentioned is a fraction inside the left edge, running from top to bottom
It starts immediately below the left facing black triangle which is below the "X" in the top left hand corner.
Swede wrote on 11/12/2003, 4:04 AM
Well, I didn't saw any line but I click many times in the area you named and suddenly it was unlocked!

I can't explain what I did, but not the window is free.

So, many thanks, PeterWright
BillyBoy wrote on 11/12/2003, 8:54 AM
It is one of the more frustrating "features" in Vegas. You're not alone in not getting it to work the first time you grab on. I dare say we have all tried several takes before one of those windows gets undocked sometimes. I guess the best advice is now that you know it works and can do it, if it don't work at first the next time, just give it a couple tries.

Tip for the newbies in case you haven't discovered it yet. Just a single click on any of the bottom window tabs, like Video FX or Explorer will make that window pane jump to the front within that placeholder space.

So if you drag the placeholders around placing them in the positions you like the window panes don't get "lost" behind one another nearly as much unless you resize a placeholder.

Right now my latest favorite arrangement is to have only the scopes undocked and by themselves in a single placeholder at the far right taking about about a 1/3 of the width. The preview window is in the middle and at the far left a tabbed placeholder has the video FX, Video Event, Surround Panner, Explorer and Media Generator. This way I can easy click on any of those tabs and quickly bring what I want to see to the front. ;-)

If you want to change the "look" just undock something in a placeholder (grab its handle, that thin line) now while holding down your mouse drag and drop and it joins the new placehold adding a tab.

For example I could take Video FX and drop it on top of the scopes area. That would then add a tab and I could switch between seeing the scopes and Video FX in the right most placeholder.