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johnmeyer wrote on 3/13/2004, 4:54 PM
Yeah, this is one of the more annoying, what I will charitably call, ”anomalies” of the Vegas interface. When you select a bunch of clips, whatever clip you click on when you drag the set to the timeline ends up being the first clip on the timeline. You must have placed your cursor somewhere in the middle of the highlighted group of files, and had the point of the cursor over clip 012.

To work around this, you must always scroll to the top of the list of files, and then click on the first one in order to drag the whole set to the timeline.

Sony, please fix this in 5.0!!
DGrob wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:14 PM
Thanks johnmeyer. Now that I know, still . . .

"Sony, please fix this in 5.0!"

Amen. Darryl
GaryKleiner wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:19 PM
I think this is a Windows thing, not because of Vegas.

My habit is simply to click the last consecutive file first, then shift/click the first to drag them.

Gary
jetdv wrote on 3/13/2004, 6:28 PM
I KNOW this is a Windows thing. After selecting all of the clips, make sure you click and drag the one you want FIRST on the timeline. The rest will always be added in alphabetical order.
JL wrote on 3/13/2004, 6:36 PM
I’ve noticed the same thing when taking a selection of still images from Windows Explorer to the timeline. You can sort the files by one of the Explorer columns but you need to grab the first one in the selection set when dragging to maintain the same order on the timeline.

JL

DGrob wrote on 3/14/2004, 4:53 AM
That's a nice tip Gary. Very smooth logic.That'll be me from here on out. Darryl
2G wrote on 3/14/2004, 5:05 PM
My 2 cent's worth... Even if it is a problem with Windows, I can't think of a situation where what happens is what we actually wanted to happen. That being the case and obviously having little influence on Mr Gates... VV could still have a 'preference' to always autosort clips when placing multiples on the timeline.

Just my opinion...

2G