Keyboard shortcuts questions.

Laurence wrote on 9/20/2012, 10:07 AM
I have been editing with Vegas for years now, mostly using the mouse and menus to get around and not so much the keyboard shortcuts. Now I find myself with a bit of carpal tunnel in my right hand and am having to make some workflow changes. I've started using a trackball left handed. The first week was pretty frustrating, but I'm getting the hang of it now.

I am also learning the keyboard shortcuts and have a few questions. One is that since my trackball has no scroll wheel (I don't believe that any that can be used left handed do), zooming in and out of the timeline is a bit of a pain. The control / up down arrows button combo works but jumps in pretty big increments. Is there a more fine tuned way to zoom in and out of a timeline with keyboard shortcuts?

The other thing that I do all the time that seems really akward is to ungroup the audio from the video of a clip, move the edges of where the audio comes in and stops so that there is a little extra video in front of and behind the audio. Then I regroup this audio and video. Is there some key I can hit so that I can move the audio boundaries without affecting the video where I can avoid all these step?

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Dominated wrote on 9/20/2012, 12:26 PM
Not sure if this is the answer you are looking for but to ungroup and then group I just select the clip I want and hit CTRL U, make my change and then select the clips again and CTRL G to regroup. That is the only keyboard shortcut I know to do this.
Soniclight wrote on 9/20/2012, 12:54 PM
Yup, I use the same two keyboard shortcuts as Dominated for that kind of editing, fine-tuning too.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/20/2012, 1:56 PM
You could also use the Ignore Event Grouping feature is Ctrl+Shift+U. It's a toggle. Press it once it's off, press it again it's back on. This is preferred to Ungroup and Group because you never have to re-select the events to group and if more then 2 events are grouped you don't loose the grouping.

I have this mapped to a single key on my ShuttlePro 2. If you want instant access to keyboard shortcuts with minimal key presses, get a ShuttlePro. You can map multiple combinations to any one of the 15 keys. I never edit without one.

~jr
Laurence wrote on 9/20/2012, 2:16 PM
That's what I was looking for. Thanks JR.
Grazie wrote on 9/20/2012, 3:40 PM
Now, all jr has to do for me is a series of mapped CSPs for : L&J cuts and Trimmer Inserts; Auto-Ripple ON<>OFF <||> Group<>UnGroup; Trimmer Video or Audio slices to fill Gap on T/L and SelectEndEventA <> SelectStartEventB . . .

Grazie

richard-amirault wrote on 9/20/2012, 9:53 PM
You said you've tried a "trackball" device and didn't like it.

What about the Contour Design Shuttle? It has a rotary control and buttons that can be assigned common / most used functions (by emulating keyboard shortcuts)

http://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/5

It works very well with Vegas. Many here use one daily.
Laurence wrote on 9/21/2012, 6:56 AM
Is there a common map for the Shuttle Pro that most people are using or does everyone use their own set of macros?
paul_w wrote on 9/21/2012, 7:01 AM
It does come with a preset map for Vegas but the first thing i did was customise it.

Paul.
Soniclight wrote on 9/21/2012, 12:29 PM
"You could also use the Ignore Event Grouping feature is Ctrl+Shift+U."
Thanks, brother JohnnyRoy, I'll try to remember that toggle -- though since it's project-global, I'd better remember to not forget to re-group or I'll end up with some events that could get moved due some inadvertent mouse move that one doesn't realize until way later.
Editguy43 wrote on 9/21/2012, 1:53 PM
I have Carpel tunnel also and use a shuttle Pro 2 everyday it has indeed helped me in editing I think it has cut my edit times by at least 25-30% and it really cuts down on moving around the keyboard. It is very customizable with 15 buttons you can put your most used functions on it and hardly ever touch the keyboard.

I thought there was a thread here on what settings people use on thier shuttle pros.

Paul B