Sony Vegas 6.0 --I can't make changes anymore

Jessicarox wrote on 12/27/2006, 5:24 PM
I have been making many movies with the Vegas program 6.0 and this time when I "make movie" I went back to make some more changes and it only allows me to change the last half of it. The first half has all been compressed into one. I hope this makes sense. To give you a little more inf... I have it set up to go into DVD architect. I am trying to get this done asap! Please help me!!

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Paul Mead wrote on 12/27/2006, 7:01 PM
Sorry, I don't have any help based on what you have posted. To help me, and possibly others understand better, can you tell us:

What do you mean by "allows"?
What do you mean by "compressed into one"?
What happens when you try to edit events near the beginning of your project?

Sending to DVD architect shouldn't affect your editing at all.
Jessicarox wrote on 12/27/2006, 8:31 PM
I can't edit it. That is my problem. I have them spliced into different sections then fading into each other. Now, I can't move each one independently...it is all one. I don't really know the right lingo but that is the best way to describe it. It is all one. I had writing that overlapped it on the test or video overlay and now it is all together...I can't take that out or change it.
Paul Mead wrote on 12/27/2006, 9:52 PM
Hmmm. I'm guessing either the events are completely overlapping one another (one got dragged completely on top of the other, as in fading from beginning to end) or they got grouped together. Here are a couple things to try.

If they are overlapping you can confirm it by dragging the clip from one track to another. For example, try to drag the event to the next video track and see if another event gets left behind in the same place.

Click on the event and type "U" to ungroup it, then try to move the event to see if one moves and the other doesn't. If that doesn't make a difference then click "Undo" to put the grouping back.
Jessicarox wrote on 12/28/2006, 4:26 PM
Neither of those ideas work. It is really strange, that is what I thought was wrong with it because it seems as if they are grouped but they aren't. I may have created this video before and lost the origional, then had to put it back into Sony Vegas as an "already created movie". Could that be why? I don't remember if this was the one I lost or not. Would it have broken it down into tracks again or kept is as a whole?
MSmart wrote on 12/28/2006, 4:58 PM
I may have created this video before and lost the origional, then had to put it back into Sony Vegas

Yes, I think that's what you did.

Would it have broken it down into tracks again

No. The project file contains edit pointers to the original file. When you render it to a new file, the edit points don't carry over to the new file.
Tim L wrote on 12/28/2006, 5:04 PM
If you're saying that your titles, etc., are right on the video -- i.e. not on a track above the video -- then you must have an already-rendered movie on your timeline. If this is the case, you will not be able to "undo" anything, change or remove titles, etc.

It sounds like you had a project and rendered it as "mymovie.avi" (or whatever it might be named), then later pulled "mymovie.avi" into another Vegas project. You won't be able to re-edit unless you can find the original project and original source files.

Rendering a movie is kind of like printing out a Microsoft Word document -- you can't really edit or change the wording or content of the paper copy, you have to go back to the original Word file to do that.

Of course, even with a rendered movie on your timeline, you would be able to split the file, cut out scenes you don't want, etc. But titles can't be changed, and you can't add back in scenes you previously cut out unless you can find the original files.

Tim L
Jessicarox wrote on 12/28/2006, 5:57 PM
Thanks. That must have been it. I remember my computer crashing and having to clear all of the memory. I believe I pulled this portion off of a DVD that was already completed so that I could add it onto another and now I don't like some of the stuff that I did. Awe, bummer. Anyhow, I truly appreciate all of your help!!