Zooming into preview window

VEGAS Pro should be able to zoom into the preview window for precise text placement/masking via beziere mask.

Maybe VEGAS can adapt Davinci Resolve style of zooming into preview window. Just use scroll wheel to zoom, click/hold the mouse wheel to pan around.

Without this function, I dont think user will ever get precise Masking with Beziere Mask.

++++++1. Please, please, please.

+1

I posted my requests in this post already, but another user suggested that I post my VP18 requests here. So here they are:

Vegas Pro 18 is a great software and concept. Thank you, Magix/Vegas Team, for keeping adding new features and updating/modernizing this amazing NLE! It has potential to rival and beat the main players in the pro video/film/social media market. However, there are improvements that need to be implemented to make VP18 polished. Here is my request for the next Vegas Pro 18 update (I also put some of these in the recent survey):

- Important: Normal Edit Tool should be able to select the area/clips on the timeline in a rectangular selection (like in most other NLE's and DAW's), not as a vertical/region all-track-only selection as it is now. This is a basic and constantly needed editing function, and it is very annoying the way it is now in Vegas Pro when trying to select a group of clips on several tracks (VP18 is a great editing tool otherwise).

- Stability improvements (VP18 crashes and freezes a lot when working with more or less complex projects, layered graphic elements, nested projects etc.).

- Proper & full high-DPI support - scaling of all the knobs, sliders and UI elements that are tiny in the current VP18 high-dpi version on the 4K screens (for instance Wave Hammer plugin and many more), auto-scale audio/video plugins UI (third party VSTs as well) etc. It's a 4K+ era and working with tiny UI elements is frustrating.

- More efficient CPU & GPU usage (VP18 doesn't utilize the whole computer power).

- Improve VP18 audio engine (recording with vst plugins is choppy + latency, the other DAW's don't have the same problem on the same PC). Let's not forget that Vegas started as a DAW :)

- Add sort a/v plugins by vendor, "add to favorites" and "assign a category" features in a/v plugin list (ACID Pro has it already - so maybe use that code?).

- Allow mouse wheel scrolling through the plugin/fx chain when they don't fit in the event FX window (Audio Event FX, Audio Track FX, Master FX, Video Event FX, Video Track FX, Video Output FX).

- Add Blackmagic RAW support.

Thank you very much!

P.S. As a feature, Surround 7.1+ support would be great.

P.P.S. I know that the Selection Edit tool can do the rectangular selection I described - and I do use it a lot for that matter - but it is very cumbersome to switch between the editing tools back and forth all the time (while most other NLEs and DAWs already have this implemented, and it is practically the editing standard). It would be much more convenient to have the Normal Edit Tool combined with the Selection Edit Tool.

Just been using Multi-Camera mode, and then realised I needed to add extra footage as a take. But I have to split the multicam to tracks add the new footage and the re enter multicam mode - thus loosing any transitions, fx, etc. Sure would appreciate the ability to just add an extra track into the multicam while in multicam mode.

Of course, I could render the multicam, and start a new project. But that seems very heavy handed just to add extra footage. Or just do the standard stuff in a new track over the multicam track.

So in summary - lets (try to) make Multicam mode even more useful and flexible and intuitive!

Idk if this request is possible or not, but can VEGAS Team somehow make the color science better for color grading panel?

If anyone have used Resolve before, you can tell how subtle, effective & natural the color wheels when grading/correction the video.

Building upon the previous comment, the color wheels should be in the precise mode by default, and hold down a key to move in even finer increments. It's too coarse now.

I'd also prefer controls that operated more like Davinci's log mode, so the effects of the wheels don't spill into each other so much.

After that selective or secondary color correction, which currently requires you to leave the color grading Fx.
 

Building upon the previous comment, the color wheels should be in the precise mode by default, and hold down a key to move in even finer increments. It's too coarse now.

I'd also prefer controls that operated more like Davinci's log mode, so the effects of the wheels don't spill into each other so much.

After that selective or secondary color correction, which currently requires you to leave the color grading Fx.
 

+1

One click button to add a master fade to black to the master bus that has adjustable fade length

small stuff, when changing video preview to draft, it will drop the video quality for better playback. But when user stop/pause the video, the preview will remain in draft quality as selected.

I wish it will render Full resolution quality whenever its on pause, automatically. Just like in Pr. That would be great

I use the Explore tab to import/working with my media. Maybe VEGAS Team can enhance it even more by allowing user to right click the folder and press import. It will import into the file into Project Media with custom bin named base on the folder name.

This feature can be found in Premiere Pro.

I wish it will render Full resolution quality whenever its on pause, automatically. 

+1. An excellent suggestion. That would be very useful when color grading.

I use the Explore tab to import/working with my media. Maybe VEGAS Team can enhance it even more by allowing user to right click the folder and press import. It will import into the file into Project Media with custom bin named base on the folder name.

It might be worthwhile waiting to see if the yet to be released VEGAS Prepare (for VP18 other than Edit) will feature something like this. From VP18's product page:

• As soon as VEGAS Prepare is available, it will be yours for free.
• Media management with VEGAS Prepare
• Create a custom library of all your media files and access them directly in VEGAS Pro. Changes made to collections in VEGAS Prepare are reflected in VEGAS Pro and vice versa.

I wish it will render Full resolution quality whenever its on pause, automatically. 

+1. An excellent suggestion. That would be very useful when color grading.

 

I use the Explore tab to import/working with my media. Maybe VEGAS Team can enhance it even more by allowing user to right click the folder and press import. It will import into the file into Project Media with custom bin named base on the folder name.

It might be worthwhile waiting to see if the yet to be released VEGAS Prepare (for VP18 other than Edit) will feature something like this. From VP18's product page:

• As soon as VEGAS Prepare is available, it will be yours for free.
• Media management with VEGAS Prepare
• Create a custom library of all your media files and access them directly in VEGAS Pro. Changes made to collections in VEGAS Prepare are reflected in VEGAS Pro and vice versa.

Looking forward to see VEGAS Prepare, hopefully it will organize the project media better!

How's about some more basic simple stuff:

Please can we have more preset shapes for the Crop fx - and the same for the Pan&Crop Mask. Better still, for this to be updateable with new shapes (stars, snowflakes etc thru to cars and animals). What fun to mask out some interesting shapes from a plain background, as a p.i.p. decoration.

Next is the Border fx - if this could be applied to the edge of a crop or masked shapes. Not just the bounding rectangle. Or to add border fx into every area where an edge can be exposed (including pip).

Pan & Crop - to be editable in the preview window, like pip is now. And/or could it please display the project's output window rectangle in the P&C edit dialog. For a toggle-button to remove the effect of a cross-fade so you can position at the very first/last clip-frame, when the item is transparent and thus currently invisible in the preview.

Trimmer - PLEASE add a button to set the both/video-only/audio-only options. It is very non-intuitive to remember the 'tab' button to toggle thru these.

Annoying Things
When some keyframe attributes are added to a clip, but then the clip is shortened, it can be impossible to find/move/remove those keyframes. Need a way to remove or expose or move the hidden (clipped off) keyframe(s).

If a text title's duration is altered, it can cause the title (or generated pattern) to loop or similar. A warning pop-up to re-set the title duration would be nice - but better to just auto-adjust the title duration to match. This should also start the clip at the beginning and not a some mid-point that has to then be shifted.

Envelope editing:

• Can be very fiddly indeed - could a special edit dialogue be created to make this easier to apply. Like an adapted trimmer window - but for a clip, maximising the envelope edit area.
• When editing envelopes, to add in guide lines for key levels (velocity 100%/50%/0%, volume etc), with the ability to add your preferred level lines. Then option to snap to guide lines.
• To include the curve shapes to envelope points - same as pan-crop (smooth/linear/slow/hold etc). That would mean fewer points need to be added to obtain smooth changes. I assume these shapes match the transition shape options.
• Velocity envelope will cause any matching sound to go out-of-sync. Some method to apply a velocity change to the corresponding audio (with the option to mute or fade, depending on the velocity).
• Auto-ducking service to help set envelope points on sound track(s).

How's about some more basic simple stuff:

Please can we have more preset shapes for the Crop fx - and the same for the Pan&Crop Mask. Better still, for this to be updateable with new shapes (stars, snowflakes etc thru to cars and animals). What fun to mask out some interesting shapes from a plain background, as a p.i.p. decoration.

Next is the Border fx - if this could be applied to the edge of a crop or masked shapes. Not just the bounding rectangle. Or to add border fx into every area where an edge can be exposed (including pip).

Pan & Crop - to be editable in the preview window, like pip is now. And/or could it please display the project's output window rectangle in the P&C edit dialog. For a toggle-button to remove the effect of a cross-fade so you can position at the very first/last clip-frame, when the item is transparent and thus currently invisible in the preview.

Trimmer - PLEASE add a button to set the both/video-only/audio-only options. It is very non-intuitive to remember the 'tab' button to toggle thru these.

Annoying Things
When some keyframe attributes are added to a clip, but then the clip is shortened, it can be impossible to find/move/remove those keyframes. Need a way to remove or expose or move the hidden (clipped off) keyframe(s).

If a text title's duration is altered, it can cause the title (or generated pattern) to loop or similar. A warning pop-up to re-set the title duration would be nice - but better to just auto-adjust the title duration to match. This should also start the clip at the beginning and not a some mid-point that has to then be shifted.

Envelope editing:

• Can be very fiddly indeed - could a special edit dialogue be created to make this easier to apply. Like an adapted trimmer window - but for a clip, maximising the envelope edit area.
• When editing envelopes, to add in guide lines for key levels (velocity 100%/50%/0%, volume etc), with the ability to add your preferred level lines. Then option to snap to guide lines.
• To include the curve shapes to envelope points - same as pan-crop (smooth/linear/slow/hold etc). That would mean fewer points need to be added to obtain smooth changes. I assume these shapes match the transition shape options.
• Velocity envelope will cause any matching sound to go out-of-sync. Some method to apply a velocity change to the corresponding audio (with the option to mute or fade, depending on the velocity).
• Auto-ducking service to help set envelope points on sound track(s).

+1 Full agreement, except for one point:

• To include the curve shapes to envelope points - same as pan-crop (smooth/linear/slow/hold etc). That would mean fewer points need to be added to obtain smooth changes. I assume these shapes match the transition shape options.

This should be possible with spline curve handles, if possible.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/project-notes-need-bit-more-refinement--125047/

I use the Project Note a lot when editing, especially putting amend note by client so I can refer to it when editing.

SUGGESTIONS:

-I wish the Notes can customize the font size so I can see the text better.

-Able to put a link and lock the note, so I can click the link without prompting it to edit the notes.

-Minimize/Hide the notes like the timeline Track, keeping things neat and organize.

Hello,

This is my entire 20-point list with suggestions for future improvements in Vegas Pro in my opinion.

Hopefully you will see the point of these improvements and will apply for them as well. Union makes force!

1. Drag video-event without his sound

   It would be good if, when dragging with the right mouse a video event from the timeline to another track together with pressing CTRL key, we could copy a video event with all the associated effects without choosing the sound by making a selection in a small context menu.

2. Zoom in and out in preview window

   Zoom in and out the preview-screen without changing the entire Vegas configuration, as happens with many other video editors.

3. Turn Scrub on/off

   Add a button in the Project Media list to turn the Project Media Hover Scrub on or off.

4. Marker numbering

   Increase the marker numbering in the timeline to 999. Point 4 was resolved in vegas Pro 18 😀

5. Selectively Paste Event Attributes

   Add to "Selectively Paste Event Attributes" the transition Fade-In Offset and Fade-Out Offset also at events without overlap.

6. Selectively Paste Event Attributes

    Add to "Selectively Paste Event Attributes" the Video event Mask settings

7. Enlarge the Fade In and Out Snap button by the events in the timeline

   Enlarge the Fade In and Out Snap button as it becomes invisible and not to be snapped when the Velocity envelope is at 1000%.

   Enlarge also where necessary other buttons in the timeline

8. Update old video DX-effects to OFX-effects

   Update all old video DX-effects to newer OFX-plugins. These DX effects are not always compatible with some third party applications.

9. Importing

    Import .eps files as a Project media

10. Video Event Mask

     The ability to import files into .png and .eps in the mask window as well as letters and symbols which can be used as mask.

11. Create Mask with brush

    Is it not possible to integrate in Vegas Pro to make a mask also via a brush where the size, opacity and softness are adjustable?

    This would give Vegas Pro so many more possibilities.

    As a result, the mask function could also be to masking parts (1) and can used be used a bit as a paint tool (2) and gives us many more possibilities to apply an smooth effect to video's with the mask tool!

12. Add New Empty Event button

    In the Customize Timeline Toolbar, add button "New Empty Event". The "New Empty Event" button is used in all kinds of applications, whether as an aid such as an intermediate piece or as a helping marker, or in plugins for creating a text animation or a complete composition in a separate video editor.

13. I found some improvements to be made in ProType Titler :

    - Highlight the ProType Titler track when selecting a text in the  preview

    - Synchronize the ProType Titler cursor positions on the Vegas Pro main timeline

    - Quantize to Frames (snap cursor to frame positions)

    - Select, Copy and Paste the ProType Titler keyframes

    - The ability to mutually change the position of the ProType Titler tracks

    - Change an element anchor point by entering its positions manually separately from its offset position and have the ability to animate the anchor point

    - The ability to animate a path

    - Include presets for the path as circle, square, rectangle, triangle, star , ...

    - Improvement the path bezier handles (move handles separately to create sharp corners easier)

    - Rotate characters, words, lines and a whole text around his x-axis and his y-axis

14. Snapping to Mask grid

    When creating a mask, I can't use the snapping points when the magnet is clicked on!

    First the snapping points are hidden by my image! Only the points outside my mask screen are visible!

    Wouldn't it be better to make the snap points visible within the mask screen?

    Second I have to draw a random mask outside the mask screen, then I must move point by point from the random mask to the snapping points, which are now attracted to the snapping points (magnet is clicked on). So I can make a specific mask shape.

    Isn't it possible to immediately create a mask attracted to the snapping points?

15. Change the scaling midpoint

    It is not possible to provide in a next version to randomly change the scaling midpoint in Pan/Crop, as happens with the rotation midpoint?

16. More dockable windows

    Is It not possible to provide in a next version more than 4 remembered dockable windows as in previous versions?

17. Sub-compositions

    I use many small .veg projects that I insert into my timeline as a nested project in my main project.

    This can include anything from a simple collection of different objects or to create a complete animation with text and images. I do this to work more easily and to keep my main project in the timeline clear.

    Wouldn't it be possible to create a sub-composition-event in a main project without creating a new .veg file (nested project)?

    For example: In the timeline > right click > From the menu Insert New sub-composition-event >  If necessary, adjust the length of this sub-composition-event as with other video-events > Double click on this sub-composition-event to open a completely new timeline and create a new composition with his own tracks with video's, text, audio etc > Closes when you're done and go back to the main project where you only see the sub-composition-event that can be adapted as with the other video-events and where back effects can be added.

    The whole project together with the various sub-compositions are written off in the same project.veg file.

18. Organize the Project Media List

    I try to sort my entire list of used images, different categories of videos, sounds, texts, graphic elements and so on, which I use in a project. In Vegas pro there are a lot of ways to do this.

    But I'm looking for a way where I can divide an entire list (1) of items into different sub-folders (2), and once they've been dragged into a particular sub-folder (2) which I made and gave a name , then they must disappear from the entire list (1) with items.

    It's kind of a move of items. If all items are divided into sub-folders (2), the entire list (1) must be empty. And If I still use new media in this project, all these items will automatically appear again in the entire list (1), I can immediately see these in the entire list (1) and can quickly place it in a particular sub-folder (2).

    A simple solution for this : If I could have added several custom sub-folders in the Project Media > Media By Type, I could have placed all my media in a specific sub-folder. Now only Audio, Video and Stills sub-folders are available.

19. Copy/Paste media from Windows File Explorer

    I would be good if we could copy files from a Windows File Explorer immediately and fit into the Vegas Pro timeline.

    Drag and drop from Windows File Explorer work well. However, to have fewer different windows over each other, copy/paste a media file from Windows File Explorer and past it in the timeline would make this task sometimes easier.

20. Mute/Unmute audio button in Trimmer

    Sometimes sounds in movies become annoying after repeatedly playing a movie to find the right part. Therefore, an on/off button is useful to have at hand.

...always hope, wouldn't you say?

Greeting Amivideotek

I sorely miss to be able to put yellow stickers on clips. Not on timeline, not on tracks, but on each clip so the stickers stay with the clips when moving clips around. Size and color should be selectable.
Having footage to be cut up and rearranged would be much more easy. Example of an initial cut-up of footage to be inter-mixed:

I sorely miss to be able to put yellow stickers on clips. Not on timeline, not on tracks, but on each clip so the stickers stay with the clips when moving clips around. Size and color should be selectable.
Having footage to be cut up and rearranged would be much more easy. Example of an initial cut-up of footage to be inter-mixed:

+1

Good idea, would be a great help to me too.
The "project notes" are a good start (continue to be used for general notes of the Project) - these cheat sheets can be applied visually and specifically to an object.

Color grading plugin - show 3 decimal digits

Please show 3 decimal digits in all the value fields in the Color grading plugin. The VEGAS Levels plugin shows 3 decimal digits in all number fields, and they are also needed in Color grading. The sliders and wheels can make finer adjustments than shown in only 2 decimal digits, and these small differences can be significant. The R, G, B values on the Color Wheels tab show 3 decimal digits, but not the other numeric fields. To be able to read values accuratly, and to transfer (copy/paste) individual values between plugin instances, the extra decimal digit is essential.

Lift, Gamma, Gain, Offset Y: values in Color Wheels tab:

All color numeric values in Color Channels tab.

All numeric values in Input/Output tab.

Like in this video:

Please add the following important features:

- In the minute 3:06 Background rendering with render monitor. Very important and a huge time saver.

- In the minute 4:52 Network rendering. Also a huge time saver.

- In the minute 9:23 Visual indication above the timeline to show which part of the timeline can be played in real time and which part are not.

- In the minute 12:18 Proxy mode to automatically convert all footages to proxy in the background.

And in this video:

- In the minute 3:59 Real Time Denoise EE filter.

- In the minute 21:11 Real time DeVerberate EE.

And in this video:

- Many interesting features, especially in the in the minute 01:19.

Something simple, and should be added in an update for VP18.... have the option to view the Video FX tab as in VP17 and before. A lot of the fx have animated thumbnails to give you a quick idea of what the fx will do, and have everything in their proper folders.