Making events stick.

dongle99 wrote on 3/9/2015, 8:07 AM

Movie Studio 13 Platinum.
I would very much like to stick a clip or group of events on the timeline so that they don't move when I am editing other parts of video. I seem to be developing some sort of paranoia that things are happening on other parts of the project without me knowing until it is beyond recall.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/9/2015, 8:47 AM

Have you tried playing with the Auto Ripple settings?

Auto Ripple (which controls how the events/clips on your timeline move or don't move when you're adding, removing and trimming other events) can be set to ripple only events on one track, ripple all events on all tracks -- or not ripple any events at all as you edit other events.

dongle99 wrote on 3/9/2015, 12:16 PM

Yes I have used ripple as you suggest but there human frailty lets me down as I sometimes forget to switch it off or on and there is no obvious way of checking quickly whether it is off or on without checking the ripple button and having it on,Simple plays it one way or Advanced another.

vkmast wrote on 3/9/2015, 5:03 PM

Yes, it was unfortunate that they decided to hide the Auto Ripple button (among others) under the Config menu in MSP 13.

dongle99 wrote on 3/11/2015, 11:22 AM

I assume from answers so far there is no alternative to my question.

Thanks a lot for your help and I will generate the thought patterns required.

I did think rendering the project in layers and editing layer 2 over layer one but the potential of making mistakes which will require me to start from scratch again is great.