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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 12/12/06 17:28
Martin Heffels wrote:
> I am editing here with a mate on his laptop with Sony Vegas 7. I have
> two layers of video. One layer has video "stacked" on top of the
> other (so if I disable the top-track, you can still see the video
> underneath). I would like to trim the video on the top-track, and
> then see both tracks how the cut is going to look like when I am
> sliding the side of my video, so that I can find a good cutting point.
> Is this possible? Right now we are dragging the video, and playback,
> adjust, playback etc etc, but this is a PITA slow process. I browsed
> through the helpfile, but didn't find any helpful answer, and my mate,
> well, he is not really of a help either ;-) (hey, that's why i help
> him :-)) ). Any help, deeply appreciated!
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
Martin, you're really doing this the hard way :-)
Put both events next to each other on the timeline and then trim the in/out
points accordingly.
If you have ripple edit enabled (icon is on the toolbar), it'll
automatically eliminate the gap.
Be very careful with this tool as it has 3 different settings and, if not
used properly, can really mess you up down the timeline where you can't
always see what's happening..
Another keyboard shortcut, after you have them roughly in place, is to hold
Ctrl+Alt as you slide the edit point. You can position the cursor anywhere
over the transition point (like an X) to drag. You'll also see the preview
window change to a split screen display to see the edit points. HTH.
BTW, an excellent resource for your mate is a collection of PDFs on Edward
Troxel's site at http://tinyurl.com/yase4v
I highly recommend grabbing all of them as they're full of useful everyday
tips for both Vegas and DVD Architect.
There's also some excerpts from the Sony Vegas 5 training series (still
mostly relevant even with Vegas 6) online at http://tinyurl.com/jtt6w
Mike
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