splitting events and filling gaps

stepfour wrote on 5/30/2002, 7:53 PM
I have to take out a 15 second region of a/v across four tracks. I mananged to make the split and the deletion at just the right points. Now I need to rejoin the events in the tracks. It is crucial that everything on each track fill the gap and rejoin precisely. I have finely tuned the audio and video on the tracks (hard work) and need to avoid messing that up. What is the best way to get the remaining events on the tracks to slide left all at once and snap directly to the portion before the split. I was going to click the "snap to" arrow but I also have other gaps on the tracks involved in this two-camera edit. Will the snap to button make all gaps get filled or can I specify only the edges I want to join and have everything else stay in place? I'm in the manual trying to find something that lets me do this but so far no luck.

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FadeToBlack wrote on 5/30/2002, 8:03 PM
stepfour wrote on 5/30/2002, 9:53 PM
Thanks, GG. I managed to do something like that. I did something involving shift-select that locked everything in place, then I was able to just slide the events to the left and fill the gap. When it comes to selecting and moving things around, I am still feeling my way through Vegas. Someday when the ripple thing is upgraded I will feel safer moving things. Right now, I am previewing the entire project after each major change to make sure nothing has gone astray. Sounds silly, but my sanity would be in great jeopardy if I get towards the end of this effort and find that something is out of whack that cannot be repaired. Thanks again for all the help from this forum.
Caruso wrote on 5/31/2002, 4:42 AM
If this is obvious, please forgive me, but, you could also use the selection tool (icon is an arrow attached to a litte dotted line box, I think) to select the initial events (before splitting) on all tracks just following the gap you want to close.

Once each track's initial event is selected, right click on one of them and point to "select all to end" or whatever it's called. This will reiliably select everything between that first event and the last even on the timeline(s) for all timelines on which you have that first event selected.

Then, you should be safe in sliding everything left on the timeline to snap to the elements at the left side of the gap.

Hope this helps.

Caruso
BillyBoy wrote on 5/31/2002, 8:55 AM
If you have a lot of events on a track you want to slide, just left click on the left most event you wish to move, then right click selecting 'select events to end' and everything to the end of the track from that point slides as a group either left or right. If you need to move multiple tracks events in this way at the same time hold down the Ctrl key while doing this.
SonyDennis wrote on 5/31/2002, 9:31 PM
Isn't the ripple delete doing this for you? Unless you have locked events, all of the stuff to the right of the time selection should move to fill in the space that got deleted. Make sure you have no events selected when you do the deletion, so it's a time-selection only. This should completely remove the time selection and join the events on either side.
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stepfour wrote on 6/1/2002, 12:05 AM
Thanks for all the info on this. I am finding that there are a lot of ways to accomplish the same thing in Vegas. I have to find what method works best (and is most understandable) for my brain.