reverse clip & seperate tracks

Dewittian wrote on 8/29/2009, 12:21 PM

I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 and want to make a loop of a few frames going back and forth. I split the section and copied it elsewhere but can't find out how to make a copy of the section run in reverse.

can anyone help?

Also, I'd like to disconnect the audio from the video tract so I can move the audio without moving the video.

Anyone know that one.

I'm new to the forum and software so here's my email just in case someone can help?

pdewitt@numail.org

Thanks,

http://dewittian.com

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/29/2009, 4:49 PM

I'm not sure about reverse. In Vegas Pro (the non-studio version) you can right-mouse-button click on an event and choose "reverse" from the menu that pops up. Try it; it might be there, or it might not.

To ungroup the audio click on the event and press U. They're now ungrouped and you can move the audio and video around independently.

MSmart wrote on 8/29/2009, 6:28 PM

It's the same, right click, reverse.

Dewittian wrote on 8/30/2009, 7:51 AM

Thanks for the tip on U and G for group and regroup.

Does anyone know how to combine 2 sections into 1, weather they overlap or not?

It gets to be a pain to try and move all these sections when if I joined them back together I would only have to deal with 1 section.

Man, I hope I can export this our and import it back in to the real file. I've been doing all this experimenting in a test file.

Chienworks wrote on 8/30/2009, 12:04 PM

Keep Ctrl-clicking additional events to select them. Pressing G will group all of them together.

MSmart wrote on 8/30/2009, 7:06 PM

Or toggle on/off Auto Ripple as needed.

Dewittian wrote on 9/1/2009, 10:40 AM

I couldn't get the G command to work after CTRL-clicking on the different sections but the auto ripple worked to separate or unseperate the link between the audio and video tracks. Still what I was hopping for is that the separate sections would become one again.

Chienworks wrote on 9/1/2009, 1:34 PM

This may not seem very helpful now, but i can assure you that as time goes on the "wanting separate parts to become one" will be come less and less important to you as you get used to NLE workflow. In a few days or maybe a few weeks you won't even think about that issue anymore.

I've been working with a fledgling audio editor who has been slicing and dicing a track to cut it down to just the best takes. She kept thinking that after every set of edits she had to render to a new file and replace all the pieces with the new file, since Vegas doesn't have a "join" function. I suggested that she simply not do that and just leave all the tiny pieces there. She was very confused at first and had a tough time adjusting, but then an hour later said was amazed at how much easier it was to simply ignore the pieces and instead concentrate on the project as a whole.

Dewittian wrote on 9/1/2009, 3:01 PM

I see your point. On audio takes I just slide over 1 section and mute the audio section just in case I want to go back to that take. Most DAW (digital audio workstations) keep the whole length of the take even if in the track editor you drag both ends of the unused to the middle so all that's left saved in the same and on the same track, muted and dragged way past the end of the expected end. Sometimes I take these muted clip to a blank track called old junk. But I wouldn't wast time and computer space creating a new file. When I mix a file, weather synced to video in a film or not I have a whole bunch of junk not being used. Keeping the old junk around doesn't hurn inless you don't have enough memory.