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kelhard
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I need help in copying 8 bars of my entire multitrack, and pasting it back in to make the song longer. I'm trying out Sony Vegas and am running into roadblocks.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
witzendoz
Senior Member
Vegas is very easy to cut and paste on, Try splitting the song wave all tracks where you want the extra length (select all tracks and it will edit all of them at the same time), then move it apart more than you want (in time length). Select the section of song you want to copy, again selecting all tracks. Copy (Control C) go to where you want to paste and paste (control v). If you have the all selected you can slide it back and forth to align the wavs. Then select the remainder of the song and slide up to the pasted section. If the edit is not quite right, on vegas you can drag out the wav and it will show the other side of the edit (wav still there).
Alan.
Alan.
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kelhard
New member
Hi Alan.
I can understand the method, but am actually having trouble executing it.
Could you possibly help me out step by step? If that is cool by you.
I'd appreciate it. The menus and help files don't really help much.
I can understand the method, but am actually having trouble executing it.
Could you possibly help me out step by step? If that is cool by you.
I'd appreciate it. The menus and help files don't really help much.
witzendoz
Senior Member
It's a lot to explain, where are you exactly having a problem?
Armistice
Son of Yoda
Are you trying to copy 8 bars that are in the middle of the project and paste them somewhere still in the project timeline? Or at the end?
Do you know how to highlight the section and copy it?. Assuming you do, you then need to work out where to paste it. Assuming, again, that it's in the project timeline somewhere rather than the end, find the spot where the add is to start, split (S on the keyboard) the project.... shove everything on the right side of the split further to the right than 8 bars length, then paste your section in, and manually push all the bits back together.
Do all this selecting ALL your tracks so you're doing the same thing to all of them....
And find some of the many, many Sony Vegas tutorials on YouTube and start watching... lots of good basic stuff there with live screens to show you how to do it....
Do you know how to highlight the section and copy it?. Assuming you do, you then need to work out where to paste it. Assuming, again, that it's in the project timeline somewhere rather than the end, find the spot where the add is to start, split (S on the keyboard) the project.... shove everything on the right side of the split further to the right than 8 bars length, then paste your section in, and manually push all the bits back together.
Do all this selecting ALL your tracks so you're doing the same thing to all of them....
And find some of the many, many Sony Vegas tutorials on YouTube and start watching... lots of good basic stuff there with live screens to show you how to do it....
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kelhard
New member
Hi Alan.
Firstly, I can't seem to highlight the portion of the track(s) I want to copy. I try using the regular "edit tool" I was able to place markers at the start and end points of where I want to copy, but I'm unable to highlight it. (I'm so used to the old CEP where you right clicked and dragged the cursor, but it doesn't seem to work in Vegas. )
I'm assuming that once I copy the selected portion to the clipboard, I'll be able to cue up the place I want to paste it in, and just Ctl-V. I understand about adjusting the markers on the actual files to make the edit blend better. I was doing a drum track and the drummer got lost. I just recorded the bars that needed fixing and flew it in and synced it up. It worked well, so I understand the premise there.
Once again thanks and looking forward to a reply. Cheers.
Firstly, I can't seem to highlight the portion of the track(s) I want to copy. I try using the regular "edit tool" I was able to place markers at the start and end points of where I want to copy, but I'm unable to highlight it. (I'm so used to the old CEP where you right clicked and dragged the cursor, but it doesn't seem to work in Vegas. )
I'm assuming that once I copy the selected portion to the clipboard, I'll be able to cue up the place I want to paste it in, and just Ctl-V. I understand about adjusting the markers on the actual files to make the edit blend better. I was doing a drum track and the drummer got lost. I just recorded the bars that needed fixing and flew it in and synced it up. It worked well, so I understand the premise there.
Once again thanks and looking forward to a reply. Cheers.
witzendoz
Senior Member
Select all tracks you want to copy by clicking on each one while holding the shift key.
Left click and drag across the tracks, the track now grey out and you have an in / out marker (yellow triangle) appears at the top of the top track.
Adjust the yellow marker by dragging to the exact point you want in and out.
Control "c"
Click where you want to paste below the bottom track, note all tracks should still be selected unless you clicked on one which is why you click below the bottom track.
Control "v"
If you make a mistake Control "z" undoes the last edit. Multiple Control "z" keeps undoing to the last save.
If you need to split a place to paste the copy into, place curser where you want to split, press "s" (not control "s" that saves changes) a split appears then drag all selected tracks to the right out of the way, you can drag them back later.
Cheers
Alan