Turning off Keyframes

plasmavideo wrote on 3/23/2006, 7:14 AM
This may be a case of it's a quite obvious solution, but I sure can't find an answer to it.

Is there any way to turn off automatic keyframing? Here is the reason for the question. I want to apply an effect, say Mike Crash's DNR, to an entire track. I apply the effect and want to see what the settings look like at various points in the track. So, I set an arbirtary threshold number and take a look at various points along the track to see the results. At one point I realize that I have applied too much DNR and artifacts are showing up. So, I change the threshold to preview the new setting. Vegas automatically inserts a keyframe at that point in the effect. I really don't want a new keyframe to appear, I want instead for it to change only the first (or as I like to call it) the global keyframe.

Is there anyway to accomplish this without having to select the keyframe at the beginning everytime and then scroll back to the point you want to look at?

Thanks.

Tom

Comments

jetdv wrote on 3/23/2006, 7:18 AM
Turn off the "Sync Keyframes" option (the icon with the little lock to the left below the timeline). Then it will automatically go to the first keyframe upon opening.
plasmavideo wrote on 3/23/2006, 7:27 AM
Not sure if that will accomplish what I'm trying to do, but I'll try it today. Thanks for the suggestion!
Chienworks wrote on 3/23/2006, 7:29 AM
This is something i've wanted in Vegas for a while. I would like the ability to specify which keyframe to change while previewing some other point on the timeline.
TeetimeNC wrote on 3/23/2006, 8:41 AM
Here's something of a workaround - change the DNR value as desired while you move along the timeline, allowing Vegas to insert the keyframes as you go. When you've finished, the last (right-most) keyframe will have your desired settings. Then, select all but the last keyframe (using standard Windows shift-click to select the group) and delete those keyframes. Finally, move the remaining last keyframe to the beginning of the timeline.

-jerry
johnmeyer wrote on 3/23/2006, 8:45 AM
Typically what most people do after they have used Vegas for awhile is to click twice on the sync cursor icon: Once to turn it on for a moment so the cursor in the keyframe dialog is at the same location as the cursor on the main Vegas timeline, and then once more to turn it off so that no new keyframe gets created.

The problem -- and I have asked Sony to fix this, but I don't know whether they will -- is that the "sync cursor" function is really TWO distinctly separate functions, both controlled by a single button. The first syncs the cursor, and the second automatically creates keyframes. There is not reason for these to both happen at the same time. I am almost certain that everyone reading this almost always wants the cursor in the keyframe dialog to track the timeline cursor, but I am also certain that often (as is the case with the original poster) they don't want those pesky unwanted keyframes to start showing up any time they touch anything in the fX or pan/crop dialogs.
plasmavideo wrote on 3/23/2006, 9:09 AM
John,

Exactly.