Weird cut on my timeline clip.

andrea-r wrote on 12/15/2016, 3:57 PM

Hey,

I'm new with Sony Vegas. And this may be easy to fix I think, but I couldn't figure it out myself. I don't know what I did or maybe pressed some wrong keys while editing. But somehow my clip(s) has this cut on top of it in my timeline. So when I play the clip, it stops at that cut for a bit before it continues to play the rest of the clip. (I just checked it again, the cuts are on all my other clips too, not just one)

Can anyone help me how to remove the cuts? Thank you!

Comments

Cornico wrote on 12/15/2016, 4:25 PM

I think you enlarged those clips.
You must have changed in Options/Preferences/ Editing the default setting of "Enable looping on events by default".
That option checked is normal and will repeat that clip from the start.
Drag the clips back untill the  "cut on top".

BTW. In this program a clip on the timeline is called an "event".

vkmast wrote on 12/15/2016, 5:05 PM

Did you (as Cornico and online Help say) "drag the right edge of the event to the right past the clip length. A notch is displayed in the event to represent the end of the clip. The image displayed after the notch will be either a loop of the existing media or a still frame of the last frame of video depending on the Enable looping on events by default setting on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog. If you want to resize the event to the current media length, drag the right edge of the event back to the notch to set the event length. If Enable Snapping is selected, the event edge will snap to the notch."

andrea-r wrote on 12/15/2016, 5:50 PM

Yay. Thank you so much.
I think I did resized the clips, now sure when I did it.
So, I just dragged the end edge of my event to the notch part and it snapped back to normal. But when I drag the event again, all the way to the end (to fit the overall clip length), the notches appears yet again? Did I do something wrong again?

Kinvermark wrote on 12/15/2016, 5:56 PM

No, it's just looping the clip (ie, start-end - notch - start - end, notch).  Usually you don't want this for video, but it comes in very handy for audio :)

If you are losing track of what you did to the clip just delete the event and drag the clip back in.

 

vkmast wrote on 12/15/2016, 6:21 PM

The "clip" (=event) length is where the notch was. What do you mean by "the overall clip length"? The project length?

Don't drag event edges, move events ("Click an event and hold the mouse button. Drag the event to the position where you want it to be played." And turn off Auto Ripple for now)