Which is probably the tool that I use the most in that program!!
Thasnks Ed

How about the menu option Insert / Time? As long as you have either no tracks selected, or all tracks selected, it will insert an empty spot in all the tracks, effectively moving everything after the cursor over to the right. Conversely, highlighting a section across all tracks and pressing Delete will reverse the process, moving everything after that section back to the left.

I would have thought that would have just been a normal tool inside Vegas - but apparently not.

Now I am also having some trouble navigating around the timeline - such as going to "next" and "previous" event or marker. The trouble seems to be that somehow in my editing style (whatever that is - which I guess I am trying to develop as I play with this project), the focus seems to inadvertently move to different tracks - and so when I use the Ctrl+Alt+ arrow keys to move up and down the track to various edit points, I end up going to the very beginning or end of the timeline instead of the next edit point.

Now is that just me and my non-nimble fingers, or does Excalibur help simply moving around the timeline more efficiently ?

And while I am asking, is there an easy way of seeing the name of the event you are focused on without having to go to properties or reveal in project manager - I would like to see the name on the clip itself if possible.

Ctrl+Alt+arrows look for breaks in events on the current track so it can seem a bit odd if the current track isn't the one you think it is. I usually click on the track i want to use first, then move around.

View / Active take information. This will paste a little label with the clip name right on top of each event.

Some of it I am sure is just getting used to it. I downloaded the Excalibur trial .

The file name helps a lot - thanks. I have tried to also have the event's length in time show up in the event infolike the clip name - but best so far is just the beginning and ending time based on the parent clip. Is there any way to show on the clip info the length of the particular clip (event) on the timeline ?

No, but if you double-click an event to select it, the duration of the event (not the clip) will show up in the 3rd of the three time indicators under the right-hand corner of the timeline.

Select auto ripple (set it for all stuff) drag on the spot you want to open up. Done deal. Miller time.
JJK

"you double-click an event to select it, the duration of the event (not the clip) will show up in the 3rd of the three time indicators"

-- very nice to know, thanks

and to Terry or anyone on "Which is probably the tool that I use the most in that program!!
Thasnks Ed" - referring to "select all after playline" in Excalibur....

What other specific tools in Excalibur (along with "select all after playline" do you consider the "most" useful ?

I programmed 'select events to end' into one of my mouse buttons. Now I just right click an event and hit the button.... it's fast!

I don't know if this helps, but this is from the HELP menu. Apparently you can choose ALL EVENTS TO END on multiple tracks



"Select all events to the end of a track
Right-click an event and choose Select Events to End from the shortcut menu. The event and all subsequent events on the same track are selected.

You can also use this command with events selected on multiple tracks."

"You can also use this command with events selected on multiple tracks."

Sure can. Just highlight one track, go to your last track, hold the shift button and highlight that track. All tracks in between will be highlighted. Rightclick that last track and "select evnt to end" this will affect all highlighted tracks. You can also use the control key to select certain tracks while omitting others.

"Rightclick that last track and "select evnt to end" this will affect all highlighted tracks. You can also use the control key to select certain tracks while omitting others."

Haven't been able to get that to work. Where on the last track are you right clicking to get the menu option? Seems like I have hover on a selected (focused) event to get the menu option "select events to end" to show up, and then even with all the tracks selected, choosing it only selects those events (or grouped events if applicable) related to the track the focused event is on. Maybe I am missing something there.

I'm with Terry up at the top... I use the Select Events in Excalibur throughout a project. It's the little things that drive you crazy in editing. I'm sure there's a way around many of these things, but when I run into an annoying hurdle, right away I check the Excalibur and Ultimate S Pro tabs, and most of the time, they've already put in a script that I didn't even know I had available to me.

Auto ripple is still the fastest way. (IMHO)
JJK

Auto ripple is still the fastest way. (IMHO)
JJK


Whenever I try the auto ripple, it seems like for me anyway it does not always ripple ALL tracks. Unless I have some preference setting wrong - I just turn on auto ripple, add a clip to a track - and for sure all the clips on that track auto ripple, but my title track does not.

try select events from curser script,, use it more than any other script..thanks to jr i think.

select events from curser script,,,,,

are you talking about from Excalibur ? If so, that works great. Or are you talking about a different script ?

its just a standalone script

I haven't played around with scripting yet. I did do a search of the vegas scripting forum - and didn't find a reference to it - and I looked at tools/scripting in Vegas and didn't see it there.

Did you create it, or if not, where did you find it ?

And by the way, is there a way to reverse the display for this forum's postings ? I would like to have the most recent on top - but I didn't see that option.

DaveM2:
When you select auto ripple it will show three selections. Select all and it will stay that way. Then on the timeline anything to the right of the cursor will always shift and stay in alignment weather you insert new events or drag and drop the formost event. Undo will put evreything back the way it was.
JJK

DaveM2, here's the script you want.
Hope it works for you.

Mike


/**
* Program: SelectEventsFromCursor.js
* Description: This script will select all the events on all tracks that are
* under the cursor position and to the right of it.
* Author: Johnny (Roy) Rofrano
*
* Date: March 24, 2004
*
**/

import Sony.Vegas;
import System.Windows.Forms;

try
{
// step through all the tracks
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
// Step through all events
for (var evnt in track.Events)
{
// Check to see if event is under or to the right of the cursor
if (-1 == Vegas.Cursor.CompareTo(evnt.Start + evnt.Length))
{
evnt.Selected = true;
}
}
}
}
catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}

Mike - worked fine - one more thing to look at - as if there is not enough ! But Thanks.

And jjk - I've just been toggling auto ripple on and off - didn't notice the drop down - so I guess I just gotta keep my eyes open for those options - thanks for the patience.