How to "unsplit"?

riredale wrote on 5/27/2002, 3:16 AM

I am just getting comfortable with Vegas Video, and have a question. I can see how one can split a file into segments, but is there a corresponding unsplit function? In other words, is there a way to undo the split?

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Stiffler wrote on 5/27/2002, 3:33 AM

If you 'butt' your one clip againt the other (on the time-line), your video will play fine (without gaps). If you notice something between clips, zoom down to the frame...

The obvious answer might be to hit the 'undo' button.

If anyone has something to add...please do.

PeterWright wrote on 5/27/2002, 3:51 AM

Yes, there are unlimited undos whilst you are in an editing session, but if you have done maybe six good things to your project since making the split, you'll have to undo those to get back to the Undo Split.

A better way is to delete the portion of the Clip to, say, the right of the split, then drag the remaining left clip to where the right part previously finished .... the split is again a figment of Vegas's imagination.

BillyBoy wrote on 5/27/2002, 8:59 AM

Click on the events you want to 'unsplit' while you hold down the Ctrl key. Events need not be alongside each other. Right click, select Group, create new. The events you clicked on are now joined as a group and can be moved around as you wish. You can ungroup later if you want.

riredale wrote on 5/27/2002, 6:52 PM

Thanks for the feedback. I tried each of the methods, and while they are all usable workarounds, it frankly is a bit irritating that there is not yet a way of actually removing the split. Over in Studio7, a razor-blade cut in a contiguous clip would be shown as a dotted line. Such breaks could be removed with a right-mouse click and the commmand "re-join clips."

Oh, well. It's not a Big Deal and there are lots of other neat features...

MHampton wrote on 5/27/2002, 9:56 PM

You could always delete the clip on the right and then drag the end of the clip on the left to where the end of the clip on the right was. I have done this a few times when I wanted it to look clean in the editor and not have to worry about losing sync or anything when moving stuff around.

It's not pretty, but it works.

Michael

seeker wrote on 5/27/2002, 10:36 PM

Michael,

I think Peter Wright (dratme) said pretty much the same thing in the third message. But it is good to know that we have a confirmation of this technique.

-- Burton --

seeker wrote on 5/28/2002, 7:39 AM

Richard,

> Over in Studio7, a razor-blade cut in a contiguous clip would be shown as a dotted line. Such breaks could be removed with a right-mouse click and the commmand "re-join clips." <

In Vegas, those "clips" are actually "events" which can have a lot of different editable properties. When you first split an event into two events, their properties would be compatible for a Studio 7 style "re-join", but the very next thing or things you do in Vegas could change the properties of one or more of those events and make a re-join undefined because of clashing properties between the events. Remember, the Vegas video events or audio events are not the video files or audio files themselves, nor are they even pieces of the files, but instead the events are special "windows" into those files. Several "windows" into the very same data file can themselves have widely different properties. I think the Vegas "event" data structure is more versatile and powerful than the Studio "clip" data structure. In my opinion.

-- Burton --

BD wrote on 5/30/2002, 11:29 AM

I frequently split events (e.g., when only a portion of an event will be rendered in slow motion) to reduce rendering time. Splitting events doesn't cause any problems. The two pieces can be Grouped together if needed.