5.0b?

BrianStanding wrote on 4/19/2004, 7:03 AM
OK, I don't mean to sound ungrateful. The Sony team has done yeoman's work on this upgrade and it looks like a very solid package I already ordered the upgrade to 5.0 and DVDA2. Subclips (YES!), network rendering, 3D space and DVDA end actions are worth the upgrade price to me alone.

But here are some of the things I was hoping we'd see that didn't make it into this version:

- Hierarchical grouping, so I can ungroup a series of events without worrying about losing synch;

- Nested timelines (still trying to wrap my head around "nested tracks," but this looks like something quite different)

- True 3-point editing (i.e., set any combination of 3 in and out points in trimmer and timeline).

And one question:

- Do the customizable keyboard commands extend to mouse actions as well? I'd like to make the mouse wheel work the same way in both Vegas and VidCap when placed over the shuttle control.

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Comments

rextilleon wrote on 4/19/2004, 7:59 AM
You aren't being ungrateful--after all you are the customer and the customer is king. I think that this upgrade is very attractive to CERTAIN users, and for others, I am not so sure. I do documentary work--very little with fx, etc and thus my needs are different then the person who does promos, weddings, fiction video etc. For me, the only major weaknesses in Vegas 4.0 was the media management in general and things like nested timelines etc. I will probably do this upgrade, only because I will continue to use Vegas and want to remain current. I also like the idea of keyboard mapping and the general improvements in Architect.
Jsnkc wrote on 4/19/2004, 8:06 AM
I must say I was pretty suprised that there weren't any new transitions, maybe I'm just missing them, or they aren't available in the demo I downloaded.
Videocanuck wrote on 4/19/2004, 8:10 AM
Lots of great new stuff, but I too was really hoping for nested timelines--found them really useful in Cinestream. Perhaps next time...
taliesin wrote on 4/19/2004, 10:07 AM
>> - Nested timelines (still trying to wrap my head around "nested tracks," but this looks like something quite different)

I second that point.

Marco
BrianStanding wrote on 4/19/2004, 2:27 PM
Bump