Odd Vegas behavior

farss wrote on 2/6/2004, 12:51 AM

I had aboout ten events on the T/L, all from the one long clip. Nothing much in the way of FX, just clips that I'd trimmed on the T/L.

Then I deleted all the clips but still had ripple edit on. Shouldn't make any difference as I'm deleting everything right. Just by chance I noticed on the 'empty' audio track that the border with the header was about one pixel wider than than it was on the video track. So I zoomed in and in but the thing never got any bigger, I mean I was well below 1/10th of a frame! But gues what, I could drag out the audio track of one of the clips that I'd deleted before. So I deleted that. Still something remains, drag that out. I repeated that for each audio track of the clips that were on the T/L but had since been deleted.

Now my brain is too tired after a hard days editing to really think through just how this could have happened and what the consequences might be of leaving tiny bits of audio behind on the T/L but given all the complaints of inexplicable clicks and plops in audio that get raised from time to time I thought some of you might find this interesting.

Comments

TorS wrote on 2/6/2004, 1:06 AM

farss,
If you have Quantize to frames enabled, selecting something might not catch whatever part that might be just more than one frame.
Tor

farss wrote on 2/6/2004, 1:45 AM

I'm well aware of that trap, but I had it on the whole time.

JJKizak wrote on 2/6/2004, 5:43 AM

These anomalies have been prevelant in Vegas since day one and thats why I view the entire finished project before rendering and then usually find something after burning the first DVD that I missed. Its hard on the eyes. Sometimes takes three renders before its right.

JJK

Liam_Vegas wrote on 2/6/2004, 9:53 AM

I noticed a similar thing occasionally happening myself. Just a tiny sliver of something left after I believed I had selected everything and deleted it. For me it ocurred on both audio and video tracks.

Sounds like a job for "scriptoman!!!". Get some script that checks out the length of every event and reports if it find one less than a certain span of time.