I want to select the area above it (exactly) so that any text frame or generated media i insert will be positioned precisely above the picture.

Hi Bambino,

Generated media will position starting at the cursor position. The video below the text track doesn't have to be selected. Position the cursor on the text track and then double click on the media you wish to insert. Does this help, or am I missing something?


Best Regards.......George

Thanks for that, George. But I am still puzzled. I used to be able to double-click without creating a loop. Now when I do it the loop is created. What can I have done to alter the status quo?!

Hi Bambino,

Are you using Movie Studio or Vegas Pro, and what version? Have you ever gone to 'Options', then held down the 'Shift' key when you left clicked on 'Preferences'? This would produce an additional tab on the 'Preferences' display called 'Internal'. I don't think there is anything in there that allows you to change how your mouse works.

Vegas Pro has an option to change the keyboard key assignments. Although I don't think it will allow you to change the left mouse button, it may. Movie Studio doesn't have that option that I'm aware of.

I have Movie Studio 12 and 13 platinum, Vegas Pro 13 and the trial version of Vegas Pro 12. They all by default assign a loop region to an even that I double left click on, just as yours is doing. So that puzzles me, how your version didn't use to work like that! Hopefully someone else will jump in hear to explain.


Best Regards.......George

As Eagle Six points out, double-clicking assigns a loop region here. He gives correct advice in his two posts above.

Note that up to v.11 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum had the "Collapse loop region when no time selection is present" option in Options > Preferences > Editing. It made the loops disappear every time you clicked anywhere. That option was removed for Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 "due to a decision made by the developers." (It's still in Vegas Pro though.)

Note too that you can press the "i" and "o" keys and this collapses the loop region to a simple point and effectively disables it.
I don't remember seeing a way to return the yellow flags to the start without dragging.
Remember that the selection only loops when you have "Loop Playback" enabled. It's the circular arrow button (KB shortcut is "q") in Transport Controls. So if you don't want looping, keep it disabled. If your loop region is selected/highlighted, it's still played though.

Note three Deleting a loop region.

Thanks George and vkmast for that information. I am using Vegas Movie Studio 10. I see I posted a question on looping some time ago - sorry about that, I'd quite forgotten.

I didn't realise the use of the i and o keys, and that is making my life a lot easier - much better than dragging to get rid of the loop. Back to my project, with much appreciation for your help.