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Old March 22nd, 2010, 11:01 PM   #1
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Thumbnails in timeline

Just a quick question

I brought an 8 min MOV clip into Vegas and it looks just fine. Only problem is that it only shows a frame shot/thumbnail in the timeline every 4 minutes - begining/middle/end sort of.

I'm used to there being as many frame thumbnails as will fit and it would certainly be easier to find the sections I want if this were the case.

Vegas 9 on Win XP64. i7 processor, 12 GB of memory.

Any way to get it to show more thumbnails?
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Old March 23rd, 2010, 12:21 AM   #2
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Try/check this Preference setting first:

Options | Preferences | Video (tab) | "Thumbnails to show in video events" choose "ALL"

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Old March 23rd, 2010, 12:52 AM   #3
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Hi Jim

Graham is 100% correct. Vegas defaults to beginning/middle/end in preferences. Just change it and you will be delighted. First thing I did in Version 9 (apart from also disabling the media options so they don't go "offline" when you minimise the program!!) That was a real pain!!!! Every time I minimised to create some music clips my media was disabled when I came back to Vegas!!

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Old March 23rd, 2010, 01:43 AM   #4
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Thanks guys! I had missed that one when I was fumbling about.

By the way - where is the option to keep clips from going offline?
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Old March 23rd, 2010, 02:55 AM   #5
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Need a bit more detail:

When does it happen?

What format are you using?

What are your Project Settings?

My files go offline when I move them around on my drives. Have you done that? Have you recently re-installed, and moved veggies and media? Your previous post makes me think you've done something radical.

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Old March 23rd, 2010, 02:58 AM   #6
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Hi Jim

In Preferences under General..Uncheck options 3 and 4 ...otherwise it closes the media files when Vegas is not active!! 3 is for Video and 4 is for Audio so uncheck both!!!

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Old March 23rd, 2010, 03:46 AM   #7
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Chris - thanks much - got it.

Graham - Hadn't had any problem yet - just wanted to avoid one that had been mentioned.
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