Moving events and filling event with color

kunal wrote on 4/10/2005, 10:37 PM

Hi,

Two rather basic questions:

a) How do I move an event forward/backward in time without changing its duration, while at the same time making sure that events before and after this one are also moved accordingly on the timeline, w/o having their duration affected either? I was trying to use the post-edit-ripple feature but couldn't get my selected event to move in time -- I could only reduce/increase its length...

b) I want an event, of say, 10 seconds, where there is nothing but a particular color filling the event for all of the 10 seconds. How do I do this fill-in?

Thanks!

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Spot|DSE wrote on 4/10/2005, 10:44 PM

For the first question, if you've got Ripple enabled, and have All Tracks, Markers, etc enabled, when you move a piece of media, everything after the media being moved will move along with it.

For the second question, you'll use the Secondary Color Correction tool to create a color pass. Select the color you want to keep, then turn on invert mask, then pull the saturation slider all the way down.
http://vegas.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27289 has a tutorial on this subject.

kunal wrote on 4/10/2005, 11:24 PM

How do I enable Ripple, say, on a project basis? Right now what I'm doing is moving my event, and manually going back and appyling the ripple every time I move..
Spot...it seems rather funny to be juggling between reading your book and having this email thread at the same time...:)

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/10/2005, 11:29 PM

CTRL+L enables Ripple, CTRL+SHIFT+F is my main workflow with it. I've got it assigned to one of my keyboard "extra" keys (bella keyboard)
My personal workflow is to get things fairly situated on the timeline, then turn on ripple, double click in empty spaces and delete, and then start trimming with ripple turned on by grabbing the outpoint or inpoint of a piece of media to more cleanly trim it. I'm usually drilled in fairly deep as I do this, so I can decide if I want an L or J cut on a shot, or a straight butt cut.

craftech wrote on 4/11/2005, 5:01 AM

http://vegas.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27289 has a tutorial on this subject.

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Doug,
Some of those are GREAT tutorials, but I have never been able to print any of those articles without the right side being cut off, neither in Internet Explorer nor Firefox.

I have tried to change page layouts and printer settings, but the right side of the articles have words or part of graphs missing.

John

FuTz wrote on 4/11/2005, 5:27 AM

If you have Word, maybe you could try copy-pasting the *article* then print it?
(I mean, not the advertising on the borders : selecting just the article itself).
I know it's pain... but it's the only way I can print some articles here and there sometimes... : (

Overall, it's bizarre since there's a "print this page" button on the site, ain't it?