Not at all,
in fact that's exactly one of the issues I have. I double click something in the explorer to add it to the TL and hit play on the shuttle only to find maybe way down the track that I've added the clip twice to the TL.
Combine that with wierdness of Ripple Edit (aka Ripple Wreck) and you'll start to appreciate my angst.
Bob.

Bob,

If you have the Contour ShuttlePro2 you can make and assign a macro to give focus to the Vegas timeline before executing the play command. I've done this and it works great (It's why I upgraded from the ShuttlePro to ShuttlePro2)

-Dan

I was wondering about that, good suggestion. Something else to pickup cheap at NAB no doubt!

The Ripple wreck in question: I don't think it's a bad thing in itself. It's just that the "behavior" of the feature could be more adapted to our needs.
For example, being able to **quickly** switch it on and off, in a snap, would be a plus. I'm thinking about making some space on the T/L to insert a block of clips. And this switch could be a single key on the board, or three keys to fulfill all the Ripple options (selected track, all tracks, etc...). Like the W, E and R keys, for example, and with the choice in prefs to have it "switched" or "push-switched", I mean switched on and off when you press the keys OR switched WHILE you're pressing the key (so you can move your block on the T/L and when you depress the key you're back to normal).

Now, is there any keys left with all these shortcuts and keyboard combos that would allow this beautiful project to work, lol !? o_O

And, speaking of behavior and I know I'm just a bit OT with the subject now (but after all, you mentionned Vegas *7*), this "hand on the ruler" behavior. That would be so coooool to be able to grab the T/L (like I do all the time with this little hand on the ruler to go left-right) and be able to "pitch it" from one side to the other... You'd grab it, and with a quick left to right movement while it's grabbed (for example) you scroll and let the mouse go with the result that you T/L "flies" according to the "velocity" you used while doing the movement (and I did NOT mean you pitch the mouse in the nearby wall!). And as soon as you click the mouse again, it "freezes" exactly where it's at. With this feature, you could really improve editing speed when you work on long projects by being able to go left-right on you T/L, seeing the blocks of clips passing by and stopping them where you want, edit, then come back... and forth... and back... and forth.
I know that when you force the hand out of the "app's frame" the T/L goes faster and faster, but I'd like to be able not have to go to these edges of application frame. Just "pitch it" on either sides.

Thanks for reading this long post if you did.
And back to another coffee...

Doesn't the CTRL-F12 key play/stop regardless of focus?

I think so, if you set it up in Prefs.
It can play/stop or play/pause...


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"Something else to pickup cheap at NAB no doubt!"

Last year they even had a "NAB Sale" on their website (www.contourdesign.com).
I picked up the ShuttleXpress dirt cheap.

Mario

Mackie Universal Controller play controls even if Vegas window is not focus window. This thig is awsome!

Trichome, drop me an email please.

The Mackie is completely indepedent of "window focus". Think of it as an alternative GUI to Vegas. The Mackie even provides a true audio tape type scrub in addition to the shuttling (J-K-L) scrubbing Vegas exposes from the GUI, Keyboard, and the ShuttlePro device.

Basically any device that sends MIDI can be configured to control many aspects of the Vegas transport. Using the Generic Surface control device in Vegas you can learn all of the basic as well shuttle/scrub and seek to markers.

I have an old JLCooper Media Control Station2 that permits all the basic Transport as well as jog/shuttle transport functionality to be controlled.

There is a very cool new device from Frontier Design - the Tranzport. This is a wireless control device that is very cool. It has built in Mackie emulation that will give you the transport functions. Frontier is working with us to provide native support for the Tranzport in Vegas. .

Peter

SonyPCH,
thanks for the info, that sounds like a much better solution than the current Shuttle.
And good to see that Vegas is now big enough for 3rd parties to find it worth the effort to work with you guys.
Bob.