Insert Event into Loop?

Bull wrote on 11/7/2006, 3:29 PM
I'm thinking that I used to know how to insert an event into a gap between two events on the timeline by setting a loop first, then pasting the event into that loop as a Take. I've read the manual, the online help, and searched this forum. I want the new event to snap to the loop area, and not push stuff around, or go underneath the events already on the timeline. Thanks... ( I wish I could just remember all the Vegas stuff I've forgotten in the past three years... ;-)

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Grazie wrote on 11/7/2006, 3:44 PM
Bull? - I'm lost! Before we get onto creating a TAKE, if you've got 2 dissimilar events, and a GAP between them, just where is this OTHER event you are looping, going to be coming from? Is it in the Trimmer? The Project Media? Where?

Sorry, I'm being thick here!
Bull wrote on 11/7/2006, 3:51 PM
Hey Grazie. It's a chuck of video in the Explorer Window. I have two existing video events on the timeline, and I have a gap between them ( say 10 seconds) that I have to fill with a new piece of video (to match up to existing audio) So, if the new event is three minutes, but I just have a ten second gap, isn't there some way to have the incoming video jump into the gap without mooshing the other existing events? I appreciate all of your input into this forum, I've read a TON of your post, Thanks.
Grazie wrote on 11/7/2006, 4:34 PM
Ah! Right .. think I got you ..

#1 - Double click between EVENTS, in the 10 second gap.

#2 - Move/Open your GREATER than 10 second media/event to the TRIMMER

#3 - Use Trimmer Cursor and find the IN or START point of this new media

#4 - Hit the Trimmer's "Add Media From Cursor"

This SHOULD now fill the 10 second gap from the Timeline Cursor WITH 10 secs of the NEW Media within the trimmer.

NOW, as you've now have the NEW media within this 10 second gap Double click on it within the Timeline to create the loop again, and now RIGHT click to OPEN in TRIMMER. What you will have now IS a 10 second LOOP section within the Trimmer on the new Event. So now carefully move this LOOP region up and down the Trimmer Event to locate another "TAKE". Once located carefully right click and drag to the previously newly introduced 10 second section. Once there and when you let go - PRESTO! It will ask yo if you want to add Across Time, add across Time or add as Takes? What you gonna say?

Is THIS what you were after? I bet somebody is gonna hit me with a far simpler way? Using K/B keys?

G
Grazie wrote on 11/8/2006, 3:50 AM
Well BULL? Any good?
Bull wrote on 11/8/2006, 2:11 PM
That's IT! That's a big time saver Grazie, many thanks. It seems that Ver. 7 is more unpredictable regarding inserting events into timelines. In fact, I've remapped the "Post Edit Ripple" key to "Alt+A" as I'm constantly turning it on and off. Thanks again...
Grazie wrote on 11/8/2006, 3:02 PM
It seems that Ver. 7 is more unpredictable regarding inserting events into timelines.

Yeah? Why and how are you drawing this conclusion?