Sony Vegas Editing problem?

Question

I am new to Sony Vegas 8 platinum and I am trying to find the easiest way to cut undesirable pieces from the the video that I capture.

I found I would need to split with "s" then figure out how to join the leftover pieces but so far I wasted time and no good results.

With my music files i use a program called Audacity and I select the part I don't want (across tracks) the "Cut" and the left over pieces gets automatically joined. No fuss.

But here it seems there is a lot of manual work for a simple thing.

So, summary easiest way to fully cut the piece of let's say 2 seconds of movie and then get the rest joined as one....

Thanks for your help...!

Answer 1

There may be an easier way, but the best I've got is to split and cut out what you don't want with the "S" and "Delete" keys, then I go to the top of the screen and click the selection pointer so I can make a box in the timeline to select more than one clip of video (kind of like when you drag your mouse to select more than one icon on the desktop).  Then I just drag the video to line up with the previous clip.  I don't think that it moves to the left automatically like other video editing software.