I'm new around here...

Simplest2remember wrote on 3/8/2023, 2:54 AM

please be gentle...

I would normally search for the answer to this, but I don't even know the name for it / what it is. I've been stuck with it for 4 days up to now - schoolboy error no doubt - probably a single setting I've switched on by mistake.

I'm using Vegas Pro 365.

When I try to "VEGAS crop", and many of the other tools, there is always this extra layer, behind my video, that interferes with what I'm trying to do. I can't select or delete it, in fact I don't know what to even call it. The image is a cropped extra piece of the primary video.

I've tried different video's from my camera, recorded and streamed (using Vegas stream), different resolutions / aspect ratios etc. Note this is directly after I copy my unedited video to the timeline - there are no effects in the chain. Hope someone can help.

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Simplest2remember wrote on 3/8/2023, 3:35 AM

Oh dear - it appears that when I render the video, the extra (not even central) window does not feature. Is it there just to show you what scene is playing perhaps? Intuitive stuff - can one switch it off?

DMT3 wrote on 3/8/2023, 7:59 AM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vfx-anomaly--136360/#ca851841

jetdv wrote on 3/8/2023, 8:30 AM

Do you have "split screen view" turned on?

Grazie wrote on 3/8/2023, 8:37 AM

Split Screen Controls:

Simplest2remember wrote on 3/8/2023, 10:59 PM

Yep, I had a feeling it was just a pesky button. I don't remember ever touching that button, I must look up what the point of it is. There are several killer settings I already discovered that are hard to turn off for a novice - maybe someone should collect a few of them together and do a video on "Vegas gotchas".

RogerS wrote on 3/8/2023, 11:07 PM

The point of it is to compare changes on/off (left/right or all/none), or after you add Fx enable you to view the timeline at full playback speed without prerendering by disabling all Fx temporarily.

john_dennis wrote on 3/8/2023, 11:29 PM

@Simplest2remember

"... maybe someone should collect a few of them together and do a video on "Vegas gotchas".

I would, but the 24TB of disk space in my machine is not enough for the ones that I've encountered.

walter-i. wrote on 3/9/2023, 3:13 AM
I would, but the 24TB of disk space in my machine is not enough for the ones that I've encountered.

Maybe it would help if we organize a crowd funding for additional storage space? ☺️

John-Ivar wrote on 3/9/2023, 7:06 AM

Yep, I had a feeling it was just a pesky button. I don't remember ever touching that button, I must look up what the point of it is. There are several killer settings I already discovered that are hard to turn off for a novice - maybe someone should collect a few of them together and do a video on "Vegas gotchas".

Good idea! And I'm glad you figured it out, @Simplest2remember