Sony Vegas 6 Manual

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4.Drag the cursor to the opposite corner of the area you want to select. A rectangle is drawn on the 
workspace. All events within this rectangle are selected.
Hold the left mouse button and right-click to toggle through the three types of selection boxes: free, 
vertical, or horizontal.
Tip: You may include or exclude events from a selection area 
by pressing 
 and clicking an event. To deselect all events, 
click anywhere in the workspace outside of the selected...

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Selecting a time range during playback
1.Click the Play () or the Play From Start () button to begin playback.
2.Press  where you want the time selection to begin.
3.Press  where you want the time selection to end.
4.Click the Stop button () to stop playback.
Using shortcuts for time selections
These shortcuts can speed up the process of making precise time selections.
Tip: Press  to recall the last five time selection 
areas.
Looping playback
If you want to play back...

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Selecting groups of composited tracks
Click the vertical bar below a parent track to select a group of composited tracks. For example, clicking the 
area marked A in the following track list to select tracks 2 through 6. Clicking the area marked B selects 
tracks 5 and 6.
Editing events
Copying events
You can copy events, or portions of events, to the clipboard and paste them into your project. You may copy 
a single event or multiple events. Copying preserves the...

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Copying a time selection
Events within the time selection and across all tracks are reproduced and placed on the clipboard. Time 
information is also placed on the clipboard.
Copying a time selection and events
Events and portions of selected events within the time selection are reproduced and placed on the clipboard. 
Time information is also placed on the clipboard.
Cutting events
Cutting events removes them from their respective tracks, but places the cut information...

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Cutting a time selection
Events within the time selection are reproduced and placed on the clipboard. Time information is also 
placed on the clipboard. When cutting a time selection, auto ripple mode affects the position of material on 
all tracks or affected tracks after the cut.
Cutting a time selection and events
Events and portions of selected events within the time selection are reproduced and placed on the clipboard. 
Time information is also placed on the...

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3.Click the Paste button ().
Clipboard events are pasted at the cursor position on the track. Existing track events can be overlapped 
with newly pasted information.
Using paste repeat
Use paste repeat to specify how many times clipboard events are pasted at the cursor position on the selected 
track and to specify the space between pasted events. 
1.Copy a selection to the clipboard.
2.From the Edit menu, choose Paste Repeat. The Paste Repeat 
dialog appears.
3.Specify...

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Events that have previously been inserted or punched-in are not affected by this change. The concept of 
punching in and out only applies when you are inserting an event that is shorter than the event that it is 
being inserted into. In the following illustration, every frame is numbered so that you can see how the 
original event continues after the inserted event ends, as if it continued to play underneath the original.
Duplicating events
Duplicating is a combination...

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Trimming an event beyond its end
You can trim an event beyond its end, extending it as a result. Once extended, the event loops as a default. 
A notch indicates where the looped event repeats. 
Alternately, you can turn looping off and make the last frame of an event’s media repeat for the duration of 
the event (a freeze frame). A notch appears at the point in the event where the video ends and the freeze 
frame begins. For more information, see Loop on page 171....

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Edge trimming events using the keyboard
With this method, you can quickly jump through your project and adjust cuts until they’re perfectly 
synchronized. If you have an external multimedia controller, it’s even easier.
1.If you want downstream events to ripple as you trim, click the Auto Ripple button () to turn on Auto 
Ripple mode.
2.Select the event you want to trim.
3.Press 7 or 9 on the numeric keypad to move the cursor to the event edge you want to trim. 7...

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Splitting all events at the cursor
All events are split at the cursor’s position (unless an event is locked). The split occurs across all tracks (if no 
events are selected).
Splitting selected events
Only the selected events are split at the cursor’s position.
Splitting a time selection
Unless locked, all events within the time selection are split at the starting and ending points of the time 
range, meaning that two splits are made. The split occurs across all...