Newbie mistake : That darn solo button!!

aquaholik wrote on 6/29/2011, 8:59 AM

I bought Steve Grisetti's book as well as Bill Meyer's 101 Sony Vegas tips and tricks. I got tired of hunting and fumbling thru the help menu and always forgetting what I learned. Great book and DVD BTW.

Anyway, I couldn't figure why the generated text medias would not show up when I playback the video. I checked the track mute button as well as the opacity control on the track. I even added another video track and copied and pasted the generated text media to another video track. It still doesn't show up when I play back the timeline. I gave up and open another instance of VMS and copied and pasted the timeline content. I was then able to render but I like to have my project media neatly organized into audio, video, photos, etc.

Long story short, I opened the original project this morning and noticed that I had pressed the solo button (!) on three other tracks. Of course only those would show up during playback. My generated media track solo button was not selected to join the other three tracks. Now I see the use for it. It is there so I can select a single track instead of muting all the other tracks just to see one track.

There I was thinking that I had ran checkdisk and some files was indexed incorrectly.

Maybe you guys can list all the common newbie mistakes.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/29/2011, 10:01 AM

Glad you got that sorted out, aqua! And thanks for the kind words about the book!

aquaholik wrote on 7/1/2011, 10:40 AM

Steve, is there a typo on page 107? Can you go over that page again where you explain masking and parenting. Look at paragraph 3 and paragraph 6. I think "Video Overlay 1" should be "Video Overlay 2".

Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/1/2011, 1:30 PM

Thank you so much for catching this, aqua! It looks like you're right!

I'll see that it's corrected in the next edition of the book. (The version 11 book is due to be published in early August.)

Thanks! At least now I know someone actually reads my books! ;)

aquaholik wrote on 7/1/2011, 2:55 PM

I didn't think you will be doing a book on VMS 11 since you just wrote one on VMS 10. Does that mean I get a big discount so I can give away my VMS 10 version to my brother ;).

gpsmikey wrote on 7/1/2011, 3:11 PM

What he said - I just bought the version 10 of your book as well as the DVDA book. Well written (although I shall pen in the corrections just noted in my book !! ) :-)

While I was reading the book, I hadn't made it to page 107 yet :-)

mikey

Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/2/2011, 8:35 AM

I certainly would appreciate any tech edits you'd like to make, folks!

Though my editor and I did test drive all of them. But we're only human.