I never have any use for the trimmer so i may not be the best person to respond. In fact, just now i've looked at the trimmer for the very first time since i first installed Vegas 2, many winters ago.

However, from my brief experimentation i don't think there's any way to make more than one selection at a time.

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I also have not often used the trimmer, however I am finding it useful for a project I'm currently working on.

I am editing some several hundred interviews, each of which involved asking the interviewees basically the same 10 questions. Those answers then need to be slotted into position after a caption bearing that question e.g. "What is your favourite food?"

Rather than cut and move them one by one, I would like to cut and move all 10 simultaneously (if possible). I find that by undocking the trimmer, I can position it under the timeline for easier insertion.

Any other workflow ideas would be appreciated.

Mike

I guess i'm not seeing the advantage you're looking for. You'll still have to select the sections one by one, even if you could have them all selected at once it's still a one at a time process to get them selected. After each selection you click the 'insert after cursor' button to place it on the timeline. So you have one mouse click after each selection.

What you want to do would require some sort of selection modifier to attach another selection, such has holding down the Ctrl key which is often used to make multiple selections. You'd end up having to do the extra step of modifying the selection each time after the first, then a mouse click to move them all at once.

Seems about the same amount of effort either way.

I'll also point out that if you could make multiple selections at once, if you do one wrong you lose all the previous selections and then you have to start over. If you do each selection/insert one at a time you don't face that possibility.

Hi Chienworks

Thanks for your reply. I agree, there is no easy way to deliver multiple selections from the trimmer on to the timeline, particularly given that they would need to go into separate regions (Q1, Q2, Q3 etc.).

I know VMS does not allow for scripting- I wonder if anyone familiar with Vegas Pro could suggest whether scripting would help in this case- creating a command which splits one video event into ten discrete sections and deposits them on to the timeline into different regions?

Cheers

Mike

Are you not trimming? If you just want regions, drag the clip to the timeline, highlight the section you want, and press R to create the region. No need for the trimmer at all. If you do need to trim then you can do that right on the timeline too. Might be faster for what you want than using the trimmer.