Rather than simply dragging and dropping onto the timeline, try right-clicking on your clip. You'll get a list of options including Open in Trimmer (which will open a panel that allows you to just take a portion of the clip) and sending only video, only audio or both to the timeline. The clips will drop right at the cursor. (So make sure your cursor is right at the end of the clip you want to follow.)

Unlike most consumer-level editing programs, Screenblast doesn't automatically drop your clip next to the previously placed one. (That's a little inconvenient for people raised on programs like Studio and MovieMaker, but it does allow you much more flexibility at the higher level.)

The easiest way to work around this is to drag your clip to the timeline with an intentional gap between it and the previous clip. Then double-click in the gap to select it and then delete it. Your clip will butt right up against the previous.

Also, when you have Snapping enabled on your Options, your clip should snap up against the previous when you drag it to it. (You might also make sure Rippling is enabled.)

To dnd9959's question, I know of no way to grab a group of clips and have them drop into the timeline in an order other than as they appear in the Media Pool. The best advice is to change the names of the clips so that the first couple of letters are in alpha order as you'd like them to appear. You can then grab all of them and they'll land in the timeline in that order.

I did this with a couple of dozens stills, and it worked perfectly!

Grisetti,

I've played around with stuff, and I find that when I add media to the media pool, I can sort the media in the explorer window from which you select the clips. (Standard Windows behavior.) I then select all of the clips (click on the 1st clip, shift click on the last clip) and select the "open" button, which puts those clips in the media pool. They get added in the order in which they were sorted and selected, and remain selected as so in the media pool. I then drag all the clips to the timeline and they are inserted in the correct order.

Reply to grisetti note: On Screenblast MM 3, when I right click on clips in the media pool, the "open in trimmer" option is not there. I have only have the choice of deleting or replacing it, or reviewing it's properties. If I could send it to the clipboard I could probably do as paste insert, but the clopboard option isnot there. I don't agree that making an insert paste operation easy would preclude other flexibilities of editing. A well designed program should make routine operations easy, wile still enabling complex editing.
I still have the problem that if I slide open a space to insert a clip, what I've slidden to the right now overlaps the next clip on the timeline. Any way around that?

> I still have the problem that if I slide open a space to insert a clip, what I've slidden to the right now overlaps the next clip on the timeline. Any way around that?

You would think that Ripple Edit would move the events to the right for you (and in Vegas 4 it does) but in Vegas 3, Video Factory 2, and Movie Studio 3 (I guess), ripple edit is kind of broken. You have to right click on the event and choose the Select Events to End menu option to select all the events from that point forward on the timeline. Then they will all move together when you open a hole. It will not move any events on the overlay and title track. You should group these events if you want them to movie together. As I said, this is fixed in Vegas 4 and ripple edit will do this for you.

~jr