Space bar (stop/play button) not working sometimes

When I press the space bar to play video on the timeline, Vegas just sends the cursor to the very beginning of the timeline. This is true even when I press the play button with the mouse on the bottom left. This has happened to me a few times lately, and is usually solved by just waiting it out or closing and opening the project.

Has anyone experienced this? Of all the boneheaded bugs that could happen in Vegas, the play button not working wasn't one that I thought could be possible.

[Steve Rhoden] "Have you tried toggling the Make spacebar and f12 play /pause instead of play/stop and see how it behaves?"

Yea, unless you change the behavior as Steve suggested, pressing space bar returns the cursor to it's previous position before you started to play. I always change it so that it stops where I press spacebar with Options | Preferences | Make spacebar and F12 Play/Pause instead of Play/Stop.

~jr

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Oh yeah, I wasn't totally clear. I mean that this only happens occasionally. I have the space bar set to play/stop, but sometimes I cannot get video to play at all on the timeline, and the cursor will always just go to the beginning of the entire timeline when I hit the space bar, or even the play button on the lower left.

Closing and opening Vegas fixes the problem. I think it's happened three times.

It has to do with "focus". A Microsoft term for which window has the focus. You may have undocked some of your Vegas windows to spread across two monitors?

For the spacebar play/pause function work, the timeline window has to have the focus. The bar at the top of the window will be darker than the other windows title bars.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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