Very basic Vegas editing questions

[Robert Knecht Schmidt]

Originally Posted by Douglas Spotted Eagle

you can use the Trimmer, since you seem to not want to trim on the timeline.

But I do want to trim on the timeline; I want to have dozens of clips in one track and trim them all in one fell swoop as I play through them. With the trimmer, correct me if I'm wrong, you can only work on on clip at a time.

You're right about the S, Ctrl+X working as an "out-point" keystroke combination (or S, Del if you don't want your clipboard getting overwritten). But doesn't work for setting the in-point.

Cheers,

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

If you want to trim on the timeline and slide adjacent clips, you should be rippling. Tried that yet?

[Robert Knecht Schmidt]

Yes, I'm rippling, but rippling's not the issue. Having an efficient (i.e., mouse-free) way of setting the in-point and out-point of clips on the timeline is the issue.

I'll have to look into macros in Vegas to see if there's some way to code what I want. Thanks again for the tips.

PS--I also notice that the latter part of a clip is not always automatically selected after a split (S). I'm not sure yet what dictates whether it is or it isn't.