limit extent of event source clip?

navboy wrote on 7/12/2009, 11:38 AM
Fairly new to Sony Vegas Studio Platinum, now that i've worked with it some, i keep running into a situation where i want to grab part of a clip and repeat it for a while.

But the problem is that when i take the section i want, do two Splits to copy that chunk out and place it elsewhere on the track, then extend the right boundary to the full time length desired, since it was non-destructively edited it just reveals more footage to the right rather than allowing me to drag the event length out to the right longer than the short content area i'd delineated to give it room to loop for a while.

Is there an easy way to select a region of a clip, copy just that content out of its containing event and paste it elsewhere on the timeline?


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musicvid10 wrote on 7/12/2009, 11:41 AM
1) Set the Loop Region to Select the portion you want to Copy (Click+Drag on the top bar of the timeline)
2) Ctrl+C to Copy
3) Place the Cursor to the position and track you want to Paste.
4) Ctrl+V to Paste, doing so repeatedly for as many times as you want to repeat.

This isn't working for you?

An alternative would be to render the selection to a new track, then Copy/Paste that, in which dragging the right edge of the pasted event will repeat the rendered selection indefinitely.

I prefer the first method.
navboy wrote on 7/12/2009, 12:49 PM
Ah, i think rendering to a new track is probably what i was thinking of, the equivalent of bouncing in the audio world, which is the background i'm coming from. Thanks!

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Associated question: If i've defined a loop region - is there a keyboard shortcut to jump to the In and Out point of it? I couldn't find one right off, and defining a Loop Region and being able to quickly jump to the start and end of it is critical in digital audio editing (CubaseSX, ProTools, etc,) , and i'm really missing being able to do that here in the video editing.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/12/2009, 3:37 PM
If I read your question right, "Home" and "End" is what you want.
navboy wrote on 7/12/2009, 8:50 PM
Nod, exactly. After i posted that i realized that when i first drag out the loop region or set it with the I and O hotkeys, if the cursor is inside the loop then Home and End work.

But once i click anywhere else it subsequently ignores the loop boundaries, even if the cursor gets moved back inside the region

In the audio editing software i've used, there are hotkeys that will always take you to the start or end of the loop region no matter when or where you are in the project - i'm still wondering if there's a trick to making that work in VMSPlat ...
musicvid10 wrote on 7/12/2009, 8:57 PM
Not that I know of -- maybe some of the power users know the trick . . .
Suggest you post your question in the Vegas Pro forum; the behavior of the shortcut keys is identical afaik, and there are some real mental types there . . .