How to remove selection from above timeline

vinniel wrote on 5/15/2012, 9:17 AM

I have selected a portion of the timeline by clicking above the timeline and dragging. I can move the selection by clicking and dragging on the grey bar or resize it by clicking and dragging the delta points on each end. However, I can't figure out how to delete the selection marking, and I can't find it in the help files or online.

Any ideas on this? Thanks!

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Jack S wrote on 5/15/2012, 9:35 AM

Hi.
Select Options > Preferences then select the Editing tab. Place a check mark in the option 'Collapse loop region when no time selection is present'. Now when you click the timeline cursor outside the loop region the loop region will disappear.

vinniel wrote on 5/15/2012, 10:22 AM

Yes!! Worked great. I'll send myself an email with that solution in it right away.

Thanks, so much!

Chienworks wrote on 5/15/2012, 12:53 PM

My only problem with that solution is that, whenever i click anywhere else, the selection disappears! Generally i usually made that selection because i want to do something with it. Also, if i don't need it anymore, probably well over 99.997% of Vegas' functions won't be affected by it, so it's ignorable.

If i really do want to collapse it i press the i and o keys on the keyboard, which sets the in & out points to the current cursor position, effectively collapsing it into non-existence.

vinniel wrote on 5/24/2012, 10:00 AM

Thanks for that, as well.

gpsmikey wrote on 5/24/2012, 10:55 AM

This seems to come up fairly often - why can't they give us RIGHT click -> close selection or something like that ? Seems to be a feature that would be very nice to have (I have had the same issue). Most programs (Photoshop etc) all have a "deselect" feature that goes with their "select" feature (ctl+D in Photoshop). Or am I missing the obvious somewhere (according to my wife, that is not unusual ! )

mikey