Splitting an event in vegas 12

Ramman wrote on 9/17/2024, 1:27 PM

I am attempting to split an event and apply a media FX to one of the resulting split events. When I do this the Media fx gets applied to both of the splits? I thought that splitting an event into two results in two independent events.

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john_dennis wrote on 9/17/2024, 2:06 PM

Any Media fX applied to a clip in Project Media will be applied to any part(s) of that media when it occurs on the timeline.

Ramman wrote on 9/17/2024, 2:16 PM

Thanks John. I've never seen that written anywhere!!! What I ended up doing is creating a sub-clip of one of the two split sections. Then applying Media FX to either stays with the event.

jetdv wrote on 9/17/2024, 2:22 PM

That's what MediaFX does - it applies it to the MEDIA wherever it is on the timeline no matter how many events it affects.

It sounds like you want to apply the FX to the one event on the timeline instead.

Alternately, you could create a sub-clip and then apply the MediaFX to the sub-clip media. But I'd just apply it to the individual event on the timeline instead.

Places you can apply effects:

Event - affects just that one event
Track - Affects all events on that track
Media - Affects all events that are from that media no matter where they are on the timeline
Project - Affects the entire project