In Options > Preferences > Video, set "Show source frame numbers on event thumbnails" to Timecode.

Now, when you use the mouse wheel to zoom in, you can see frame numbers. Keep zooming till you see consecutive numbers on each frame, and you're there.

Having Quantize to frames (top of Options) switched on will also help for video editing.

Filmy and PeterWright,

Thanks! I will try both suggestions.

Peter:

1) I have a Wacom Intuos 4D Mouse and the wheel doesn't seem to be doing anything? I do have Quantize turned on (I wish there was a in or out icon to show when it is on or off though).

2) I have a nephew named Peter Wright (lives in Coopersburg, PA).

Filmy,

No matter what I do, I cannot get each individual frame. I tried the F9 and F3 and it does indeed advance or reverse one frame but that shows on the monitor.

What I was hoping for was some way to have each clip on its own track and then visually compare them so I could synch on something (a camera flash, an audio pop, etc.). Then I can adjust one track left or right to align with the other track and then edit out the duplication.

What am I still missing?

If you're going to use Vegas, FORGET all the half ass ways Premiere does things.

You want to see a close up of more than one track?

Simple.

First use the keyboard arrow keys. The up arrow zooms in, the down arrow zooms out.
This will get you to frame level.

You need to zoom in on multiple tracks?

That's simple too.

Note the scroll bar at the extreme right of the timline. If you hover over the + key you will se it reads zoom in track height. With it you can zoom in on multiple tracks at once. The minus key moves out.

As you zoom in you'll notice that the track area takes over more and more work space. If you zoom in far enough you'll have to push the other window panes down. To do that note the double line double arrow cursor at the very bottom of the track area. You can drag it up or down to shrink or enlarge the window pane area below the timeline.

>>>No matter what I do, I cannot get each individual frame. I tried the F9 and F3 and it does indeed advance or reverse one frame but that shows on the monitor.<<<

Well first I said you needed to zoom in on the timeline in order to see each frame on the timeline. The F3/F9 keys I told you about because if all you want to do is check each frame, say on an edit, it is easier to just look at the monitor and frame advance through the footage rather than try to view each frame on the timeline.

Now - you just added in something important that you didn't explain before. You seem to want to sync up takes? For audio is works the same way as Premiere (Must be VV is half assed too huh BB?) You just drop the picture on the timeline and than the audio. Find your slate or flash or whatever and match it to the audio pop by moving the audio around. Than you just group them together. Now if you are talking about multi-cameras and syncing them all up - try Excaliber because it takes some of the short comings of VV and makes them more user friendly, such as multi cameras and syncing them.

You'll have to live with the overall layout of VV as far as the timeline goes. It is very hard to zoom in on more than one track at a time and see them at a frame level. You can do it, but it just becomes a big CF on your screen unless you are running two monitors and isolate the timeline on one of them. We editors tend to look at life a bit different than a colorist does. ;)

LOL! Wouldn't you love to be a bug on a wall when some one the SoFo engineers that wrote the code for Vegas read some of these comments?

BTW, I can zoom in enough on the timeline just fine to do ANYTHING. I can still do it in spite of still suffering from my Bell Palsy, So if old blinky (me) can do it, geez...

Thanks Filmy and Billyboy. You have both been a great help!

Jake,

I don't know about the Wacom mouse, but it sounds pretty flash, so I'd be surprised if it did less than a standard Microsoft wheel mouse. I couldn't imaging using Vegas without the wheel zoom in/out.
To make Quantize to Frames more obvious, Options > Customize Toolbar > Add Quantize to Frames and the icon will be up above the timeline at all times.

Say hi to your nephew ...

Peter