Sync cursor, problematic pasting, and stretching clips

philfort wrote on 10/31/2002, 10:42 PM

I've been using VV for several weeks now, and I'm very impressed with the program overall, but I've been making a list of a few problems I've encountered that are bothering me. I was wondering if anyone could help with the following questions:

1) I can't get the "sync cursor" to work with generated media. It's always greyed out... I don't understand this limitation. If there are keyframes allowed to modify parameters of the media, shouldn't I be able to sync cursor?? I can do it for FX and pan/crop, so why not generated media?

2) When you paste a clip onto a track, is there a way to make it so it doesn't displace other clips (that are at a later time) on that track? It doesn't displace clips when you *drag* a clip onto a track, so I don't understand why it does when you copy and paste a clip. Very frustrating, since you then have re-align the later clips; or else paste onto the end of track, and drag it back to where you actually want it to be.

3) Is there a way to squeeze (timewise) a clip more than 4x? (I tried importing a sequence of TIF images. Each image ended up being several seconds in length, even though I have set the still image length to .07 seconds (2 frames each). I tried to squeeze, but I can not go beyond 4x. I dragged the still image clip from the media pool onto the timeline a second time, and this time, each image was only 1 frame, so in the end it was ok. But that's a little odd)

Also a random bug: TIF is not included as one of the choices in the filetype dropdown for Import Media (nor is it in the "Add Media Files" choice), so you have to choose "All Files" to see TIFs.

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 11/1/2002, 7:20 AM

Hi Phil,

>>>>>1) I can't get the "sync cursor" to work with generated media. It's always greyed out... I don't understand this limitation. If there are keyframes allowed to modify parameters of the media, shouldn't I be able to sync cursor?? I can do it for FX and pan/crop, so why not generated media?<<<<<

No sync-cursor on generated media, search the recent posts for the SoFo replies on this.

>>>>2) When you paste a clip onto a track, is there a way to make it so it doesn't displace other clips (that are at a later time) on that track? It doesn't displace clips when you *drag* a clip onto a track, so I don't understand why it does when you copy and paste a clip. Very frustrating, since you then have re-align the later clips; or else paste onto the end of track, and drag it back to where you actually want it to be.<<<<<<

You might try toggle-off the Ripple button on the toolbar before pasting to overwrite.

>>>>3) Is there a way to squeeze (timewise) a clip more than 4x? (I tried importing a sequence of TIF images. Each image ended up being several seconds in length, even though I have set the still image length to .07 seconds (2 frames each). I tried to squeeze, but I can not go beyond 4x. I dragged the still image clip from the media pool onto the timeline a second time, and this time, each image was only 1 frame, so in the end it was ok. But that's a little odd)<<<<

You might try inporting the sequence using the Import tool, and before you drag the sequence into the TL, right-click to get the properties-panel and click OK. This will set the framerate to 29.97 (one frame per image). Then you can slow the rate as you like.

>>>Also a random bug: TIF is not included as one of the choices in the filetype dropdown for Import Media (nor is it in the "Add Media Files" choice), so you have to choose "All Files" to see TIFs.<<<

Not exactly a bug... TIFs are probably the least Vegas friendly image format. They require an external reader to display. You might try batch converting the images to PNGs prior to Vegas, for better results.

HTH, MPH

jetdv wrote on 11/1/2002, 9:16 AM

3) Is there a way to squeeze (timewise) a clip more than 4x? (I tried importing a sequence of TIF images. Each image ended up being several seconds in length, even though I have set the still image length to .07 seconds (2 frames each). I tried to squeeze, but I can not go beyond 4x. I dragged the still image clip from the media pool onto the timeline a second time, and this time, each image was only 1 frame, so in the end it was ok. But that's a little odd)

Try using a velocity envelope along with the CTRL-Drag method. By combining them, you can get up to 12x.

philfort wrote on 11/1/2002, 10:24 PM

Thanks for the responses...
1) Ah, I read some of the other posts, and understand the reason for it now. Still, if you haven't yet made any copies of the media that link back to the original, it would be nice if sync-cursor sitll worked. Of course then people might be confused as to why it works sometimes, and not other times.

2) I hadn't noticed the ripple-edit button... looks like that does what I what :-)

3) the imported media thing... there's a still a weird bug there. After I import, if I just drag the clip to the timeline right away, it gives each "frame" a 5 second duration (or something like that). If I do *anything* with the clip in the media pool, it seems fix to it. For example, I right-click "open in trimmer", then close the trimmer right away. Now it works. Oh well, not a big deal.

thanks

tedbuchanan wrote on 11/2/2002, 11:36 PM

<< When you paste a clip onto a track, is there a way to make it so it doesn't displace other clips >>

Use "paste insert" instead of "paste". It moves everything down on all tracks whether or not you have the ripple button on. You can find "paste insert" on the edit menu, or use ctrl-shift-v.