Posted by Martin Heffels on 12/12/06 19:26

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:28:18 -0500, "Mike Kujbida"
<kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote:

>Martin, you're really doing this the hard way :-)

Yeahhhh. I love it the hard way. With whips and all ;-)

>Put both events next to each other on the timeline and then trim the in/out
>points accordingly.

That was much easier. Thanks! Sometimes it's so hard to forget the obvious
when looking stubbornly for a solution....

>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..

Yep, noticed that.

>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.

And that is where I would want to see the lower videotrack!

>
>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

Thanks Mike. He'll check it out.

cheers

-martin-
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