timeline takes up whole work space

Ramundo wrote on 12/28/2010, 8:02 AM

I rearranged the Video Preview and Project Media windows, with the timeline below. Now, every time I click on the timeline, it jumps up to fill the whole screen. I can grab the edge to pull it back down, but it does the same thing again. Obviously, this makes it impossible to work. I can click on the six dots and the arrows all I like, but it makes no difference.

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Eugenia wrote on 12/28/2010, 12:42 PM

I think the UI settings file might have been corrupted. There is a special key combo that resets the Vegas windows back to their defaults... Cntrl+alt+shift when Vegas starts, but I can't remember the combo exactly right now. It's been mentioned here before.

musicvid10 wrote on 12/28/2010, 1:02 PM

You have undocked the timeline. Grab the dots and drag it until it docks, or use View->Windows Layouts->Load Default.

richard-amirault wrote on 12/28/2010, 1:38 PM

I rearranged the Video Preview and Project Media windows, with the timeline below.

If all you wanted was the timeline on the bottom instead of the top there is a menu setting you can change. Unfortunatly I can't find it at the moment.

jetdv wrote on 12/28/2010, 2:03 PM

Options - Preferences - Display tab - Uncheck the "Display timeline at bottom of main window" checkbox.

Ramundo wrote on 12/29/2010, 5:36 AM

Thanks - but the timeline doesn't have dots for docking and undocking. And my version (9.0) doesn't have View->Windows Layouts.

Ramundo wrote on 12/29/2010, 5:38 AM

Thanks - this puts the timeline at the top of the work space, but with the same problem of it expanding to fill the entire work space whenever I click on it.

MSmart wrote on 12/29/2010, 8:07 AM

Then you need to reset VMS as suggested, hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys at the same time while launching VMS. Hopefully that will take care of your problem.