Where can I see when a clip begins in the timeline?

marchermann wrote on 7/27/2004, 3:06 PM
Hello, everyone,

I am a user of Liquid Edition, but currently checking out Vegas for its capability to edit my 3D animations without Liquids "always on" DV compression. I have spent a day trying out many things that I could not do in Liquid and am quite impressed.

One thing that I am missing, though, is that when I move a clip in the timeline I would like to know what current position of its beginning is. Say I want to place a clip (for whatever reason) exactly at 25 seconds and 12 frames. From what I've seen in Vegas I would have to either guess or zoom in a lot for the ruler to become precise enough. Is it not possible or have I overlooked something?

Cheers,
Marc

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/27/2004, 3:23 PM
I normaly put my curser line at that spot then drop/drag my media there.

It's something you get used to.
Rosebud wrote on 7/27/2004, 3:46 PM
Menu View > Edit Details > Start
jeremyk wrote on 7/27/2004, 4:37 PM
I agree it's a pain that Vegas doesn't show you where the clip you're moving is. Other NLEs do this, like EditDV, which I used to use. (I suggested Sony use the cursor position values for this, but nothing has happened yet.)

However, it's easy to position the cursor to a particular frame without zooming in. Double click the cursor position window in the lower right corner of the timeline, and key in the value. 25 seconds and 12 frames would be 2512. Then press Enter.
marchermann wrote on 7/28/2004, 12:49 AM
Yeah, that's what I found out in the meantime: Edit Details is great! And better than in Liquid Edition (although overall editing workflow is superb in that application). Since this was the last thing I wanted to check, I think it's time I order the competitive upgrade.

Cheers,
Marc
beerandchips wrote on 7/28/2004, 8:51 AM
I jumped ship from Adobe and Pinnacle. I think you will ultimately be happy with Vegas. Pinnacle does have Vegas beat on the background render thing though.

Also, the Sony DV codec used in Vegas has excellent quality output. Blows Pinnacle away.
johnmeyer wrote on 7/28/2004, 8:53 AM
You can cut and paste from the edit details dialog into Excel. This is sometimes useful.

Hopefully Sony will make this cut/paste more useful, since pasting back into the dialog sometimes requires that you first select an entire column.