Right clicking should get you out of it. The first left-click starts this “sticky cursor/region” thingy and a right-click should end it. I agree its very annoying.

~jr

something musta glitched I tried that but no luck.
so I pulled the trigger and rebooted.
I think I'll stay away from the Trim-Reaper and stick to subclipping from the timeline.
Thanks for the Info though J.R. ,but I 'll wait till the Post Trimmer Stress Syndrome syptoms subside.(shake,shake ,twitch)

Did Vegas reload the restored veg? In otherwords, the backup of what was there before you rebooted?

In the Trimmer, place the cursor where you want to start, hold down left mouse and drag to where you want to finish.

A shaded region is created. If you want to adjust this, drag either left or right boundary.

When satisfied, right click in the region and create subclip.

.. . sorry epirb . .just read your post . . LOL many times here .. . very good .. esp your "I think I'll stay away from the Trim-Reaper " . .

I didn't know you can do this "and stick to subclipping from the timeline." . . I thought this was only available from the . .er .. Trim Creeper?!?!

. .. very very very funny Post ! ! ! !

Grazie

Thanks for the posts Spot , no I didnt get the "last session did not close ...do you want to restore" message. I dont know why maybe because I had just opened up that veg shortly before and had done a few qiuck edits before I entered the "trimmer triangle".Or because I shut down windows and restarted.(I guess I could of just shut down Vegas from the task manager, but frustration took over all sense of reason,i guess.
Peter,I had actually done one subclip extraction from the trimmer, that way, then "it" happened.
I just reopened my prevoius veg and began again.
Gotta get in the habit of using My Neon quicksave/back up icon more often.
Grazie, I think if the Trim-Reaper had a Razor tool like Premier
the Icon would be a Sickle !

I think this is a bug folks. I get the same thing. When I try to place the cursor in the trimmer nothing happens. When I drag left or right the cursor appears and is stuck to the pointer creating a region. If I right click it does stop but this is not tight.

The reason I think it is a bug is because sometimes it operates as expected. I click in the trimmer and the cursor goes there. Then I can use the arrow keys to go left or right.

If it is not a bug then I would really like to know how to shut this behaviour off. It drives me crazy not knowing what is going to happen when I click on a video clip in the trimmer. Is the cursor going to mover there or is it going to stick in region select mode?

yo epirb -
don't despair - and don't give up on one of the greatest new tools in Vegas.

I've also had the sticky trimmer thingy and it sucks - I hope someone smarter than me can definitely tell you how to avoid it, but meanwhile, at the bottom of Options>Preferences>General is a click box with "Allow cursor to be dragged". Try turning it on and/or off once or twice and see if that solves the sticky cursor situation.

The reason I'm saying this is because the subclip from trimmer is an incredible way of preorganizing your footage.

We make Sub-bins in the Medai Pool that relate to the footage we've shot: Interviews, sunsets, dogs, pretty girls, etc. and then "sub-clip from trimmer", all of the footage we've got, into those bins. It makes cutting a pleasure. Sometimes we put the same sub-clip into two or three different bins; maybe interviews and pretty girls.

We open the footage in Trimmer, drag the selection left to right, then type "R" which makes a region and then enter the name of the sub-clip. When the cursor sticks, we right click it to release it, but it can go days without sticking and that's heaven. The subclip automatically goes into the last bin we selected. It's very fast and boy when you've got hundreds of clips, and are looking for an interview with a pretty girl - well - who isn't?
So don't give up - you just had a bad "first try" and yes - save, save, save.

You know what? I think it may have something to do with the trimmer history. I have found that clearing the trimmer history will sometimes resolve this issue. Not every time but some times. When this doesn't work restarting Vegas straightens it out.