What is the upside-down triangle on video in the timeline?

pking36330 wrote on 6/10/2004, 1:58 PM
Folks, I've scoured the "Vegas50_Manual", the "Vegas 5 Quick Start Manual", the "Vegas 5 Learn To Use New Features" document, and still can't find what the little tick mark is in the lower center of a video clip on the timeline.

Sometimes its white and sometimes its black. Why?
I have one image that has a white downward pointing triangle at the center of the image and it has several grey ones evenly spaced on either side? What are they?

I wish there was a visual callout of every feature in each view available in some manual somewhere. Am I missing it?

Comments

Grazie wrote on 6/10/2004, 2:24 PM
There is a ? & pointer on the default Toolbar. When you next see these triangular items, click on the "What's This" icon - I said above - option and move to the area you don't understand . . somebody will come back with an answer for your triangles, but in future try this little "helper" . . . works for me .. the triangles could be the Event Snap Point .. .

Grazie
epirb wrote on 6/10/2004, 2:56 PM
If your refering to the little white triangles at the bottom of the clip they designate particular spots in the original clips timecode.
zoom in and you'll notice they will show up at every frame.
with the orig clips timecode displayed
As you zoom in you'll notice more of them appear, and if quantize to frame is on as you click near one you'll notice that thats the next frame.
pking36330 wrote on 6/10/2004, 5:23 PM
Grazie,

The ? pointer on the toolbar has been a tremendous help, but it would not define what these were. Sony did a particularly bang-up job of the ? pointer help in some of the preferences and other dialog boxes though, good job Sony! Not only defines what a parameter is, but includes what the nominal setting should be and sometimes why.

Thanks anyway though. No one else has a page reference in any of the printed (or PDF) documentation?
JasonMurray wrote on 6/10/2004, 8:31 PM
Not knowing which way is "right way up" or "upside down" for a triangle for you, I have two suggestions;

1. The triangle is the frame indicator which shows you at which point within the event the enlarged frame it's attached to occurs.

2. The triangle is the end of the event -- if looping is on, then it's the point at which the event loops back to the start of itself.

Just my suggestions...
pking36330 wrote on 6/11/2004, 6:11 AM
JasonMurry, disregard previous, I obviously misunderstood.

Grazie and epirb, thanks for your thoughts.

Sony...is a complete explaination in the manuals somewhere? Seems to be a feature some folks know about, but I'd like to read about it myself. Thanx!
GmElliott wrote on 6/11/2004, 7:50 AM
Pking, I actually think Jason nailed it.
rcrawfor42 wrote on 6/11/2004, 10:15 AM
I have to agree with GmElliot -- Jason wasn't insulting you, he was trying to answer your question. In fact, he DID answer your question.