Layout for Vegas

[smkoch]

Hey, I'm totally new to vegas but since it came out I've been dabling with it and premiere 6.5 , Premiere being what I mainly use for editing. as it's easy and already know to me. But when the time came to upgrade I chose vegas 5 over premiere 1.5 so my one question is being a premiere junky can I slide my timeline to the bottom of the screen? I've tried to no evale. also how do I make it so a clip being dropped doesn't overlap the video I've tried a the ripple, and lock, which kinda works when droping a knew clip in but if I rearage the timeline that's where i run into problems.

[Chenopup]

From the DMN Forums...

"Open the tools menu, hold down the shift key, and select "Preferences". This adds the "settings o' death" tab to the prefs (aka "internal"). In this panel you can change all sorts of things that will make Vegas nearly unusable.


In the text box at the bottom type in "top". You'll see three prefs. The important one is "Frame Dock at the Top". Set it to "true". click "OK".


You're Vegas window may look just right or it may seem as though it only contains the timeline. In the later case it's because the frame dock resized to nothing at the top of the window. Wave your mouse around up there and find the divider between the timeline and the frame dock. Drag the divider back down and you'll see your docked windows at the top of the screen. "

If you decide to go this route, you can save that layout as a layout pref and go back to the standard layout in another saved pref. Pretty cool.

You said : " also how do I make it so a clip being dropped doesn't overlap the video..."

I'm not sure what you mean.. do you want to drop something in between two clips without overlap? Are you having it auto crossfade?

mike

[smkoch]

thank's, much better

[waycooljr]

From the DMN Forums...

"Open the tools menu, hold down the shift key, and select "Preferences". This adds the "settings o' death" tab to the prefs (aka "internal"). In this panel you can change all sorts of things that will make Vegas nearly unusable.


In the text box at the bottom type in "top". You'll see three prefs. The important one is "Frame Dock at the Top". Set it to "true". click "OK".

mike




Is this safe to do in 4.0e, has anyone else done this with good results?

Ray

[David Jimerson]

Can't do it in 4.

[waycooljr]

Can't do it in 4.

:(

Ray