simple loop selection question

slambubba wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:11 PM

i'm getting ready to print to tape a project that is 1 hour 30 mins. long. i want to select two loop regions, one 0:00 to 0:55 and the other 0:55 to 1:30 and render each to avi. this has to be easy, but i just can't figure it out. i've been manually entering the selection start & end with no luck.

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rextilleon wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:17 PM

Select your loop region---then go to File/RenderAs pick avi from the pulldown and hit save. MAKE SURE THE RENDER LOOP REGION ONLY box is checked on the lower left. ////You can also render the looped section to a nother track----That would be Tools/Render to New Track.

Hope this helps.

slambubba wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:18 PM

my problem isn't rendering to a loop region, it's getting that big of loop region selected.

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:23 PM

You cannot specify two separte regions in one operation without using a script such as Neon's Asset Collector.

Gary

Cheesehole wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:25 PM

See the 3 time code boxes - bottom right corner of Track view?

They are:
Start | End | Length

Type your time code into the start and end and you'll have it selected. Then you can drop a Region by hitting R - then if you ever want to select that region again you can just double click on the green region marker.

slambubba wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:36 PM

cheesehole - that's what i thought i had to do. my problem was hitting ctrl-end to go to the end of the timeline. then i manually entered the start value. that made my selection length 0. i finally figured out you have to enter the start value first, then the end value. that will select the loop region.

thanks for the tip on hitting R.

Cheesehole wrote on 4/23/2004, 9:40 PM

Oh right... they make you do it in a certain order. Took some playing around for me to figure it out.

rmack350 wrote on 4/23/2004, 10:05 PM

Just to add to the possibilities, you can type negative numbers into the duration field.

Might help someday.

Rob Mack

Erk wrote on 4/24/2004, 1:47 AM

Now that you made it explicit Gary, it made me think of something:

How about being able to treat non-continguous selections between markers the way Windows treats lots of objects -- ctrl-clicking to select additional regions between markers . And how about an option to treat these like audio tracks, ie, render say all 5 of these selections to one file, or 5 separate.

Lastly, -- still raining, still dreaming -- be able to tell Vegas to preview all those selections in a row, as if they were contiguous on the timeline.

I read all those posts about storyboards and nested timelines and, running in an irregular pattern to avoid the artillery shelling, actually learned a lot about how different people approach organizing their work. I wonder if others would find the ideas above useful.

Greg