Yeah, none of them work since they don't update the picture when I move back and forth.
Pity

What version of VMS?

With playback stopped, I can grab the scrubber (not at the top) and move back and forth and the preview screen follows along. It doesn't create a selection. So I'm not sure what your issue is.

Version 11.
And I described my 'issue' in the first post. The scrubber is much too slow to move back and forth on the timeline, so i click on an empty track and drag left or right, but this also causes selection to happen.

I don't know what you mean by "not at the top"

OK, I see what you're doing. Rather than click dragging on the blank space of a track, click drag on the thin line of the scrubber (the cursor). I believe what you're calling the scrubber is called the playhead.

"not at the top" = playhead.

More info found in the Help file under Scrub Control.

Sorry i thought it was called scrubber. You are right its the "playhead" I was talking about (is there something called a scrubber then?)

But its a bit inconvenient to have to click hit the thin line. But thanks.

I have to admit that I've referred to the "cursor" as the scrubber for quite some time. But no, there isn't anything called a scrubber in Vegas Pro or Movie Studio. The act of moving the cursor is scrubbing. Semantics.

Inconvenient? I never thought so, it's just the way it is.

I do all this with the arrow keys. Uses three fingers and I seldom use the mouse except when I need to restore focus to the timeline.
Up/Down to zoom the timeline to an appropriate span.
Only click for an initial cursor placement.
Left/Right to move the cursor (and Preview) to my desired spot.
Then zoom in and fine tune as above. Doing it this way doesn't create a loop region.
Been doing it this way for ten years. Becomes second nature after a while.

Actually the little yellow triangle beneath the track header area on the left is a scrubber of sorts. It's a velocity control rather than a position control, but this duplicates the variable playback knob on most professional VCRs.

The function that most closely resembles "grabbing the reels" and rolling the tape back and forth over the head is draging the "playhead" on the timeline. This is a small grey icon at the top of the cursor right inside the time ruler. Dragging this does NOT create a loop selection. However, it's also very limited in how fast you can drag it. I'd find it a lot more useful if i could drag as fast as the mouse can move.

But, it's not really a big issue because i can drag above the ruler to move as fast as i'd like. Yes, it does create a selection, but normally that's a "so what?" issue. I rarely ever need to preserve a selection region from one edit operation to the next so i don't really care about it. If you want to restore your previous selection area after dragging then press Ctrl-Backspace. I think you can go back through the last 10 or so.

I am also having problems with the loop regions being created also.
I try to move 3 or 4 clips then when you cross the scrubber/playhead thin line there's
the loop regions being created and the clips stop moving.

I need to be able to disable loop region creation under preferences
but it does not seem possible.
Maybe the timeline tools add-on can do that.

Then how do you delete the 2 yellow triangles?

However if you are moving clips a long ways get the move marker icon
way over in the left side beyond the zero point and the clips move pretty fast.
As you overshoot onto the other clips just stop and backtrack.

Thanks, BIll

Bill, what are you doing to move the clips where a loop region is being created? How does it stop you from moving the clips? I'm completely lost here as i've never seen such a thing happen. Select a bunch of clips and drag them left or right should work, without creating OR being affected by a loop region.

There is no way to get rid of the two yellow triangles. However, the fastest, easiest way to eliminate their effect is to press the i and o keys without moving the cursor. This collapses the loop region to a length of zero and effectively disables it.