User Guide

CHP. 2 GETTING STARTED
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1. Locate a media file in the Explorer or Media Pool.
2. Drag the media file to the timeline.
An event for the media file appears where you released the mouse.
Dragging multiple media files to the timeline
1.
Select multiple media files in the Explorer or Media Pool. Select a range of adjacent media files by
pressing and clicking the first and last files in the range or select files that are not adjacent by
pressing and clicking individual files.
2. Right-click and drag the files to the track view (timeline).
3. When you release the mouse, a shortcut menu appears. Select a placement option from the menu.
• Add Across Time
• Add Across Tracks
• Add As Takes
For more information, see Working with takes on page 91.
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Video Only and Audio Only allow you to isolate either the video or audio, and add that stream from a
multimedia file either across tracks, across time, or as takes.
Tip: A left-click drag-and-drop automatically inserts files
across time. However, you can cycle through placement
modes by right-clicking (without releasing the left mouse
button) while performing the drag-and-drop operation.
Double-clicking a media file
This method places the event at the cursor’s position in the selected track. If the selected track is a video
track, and you double-click an audio event (or vice versa), Vegas creates a new track for the event. Once an
event is placed, you can move it from one track to another or change its position on the timeline.
Shift
Ctrl
You will see one event on the track.
The other events are listed at takes “beneath” the
the topmost event.