A tiny suggestion for the next Vegas release

David Johns wrote on 11/26/2019, 6:45 AM

Hello lovely Vegas developers - Gary, Pierre et al,

Any chance you could make an option to hide the file extension in the Project Media window so that when you rename a file you don't always have to type the extension as well? For a project with lots of files to be renamed, it gets very tedious.

Or an option to "automatically keep file extension upon rename" would be handy. Plus, a shortcut key to do "Select Event in Project Media" then "Rename" all in one would be utopia.

(PS to anyone who's going to complain about renaming project files within an editor (I saw vitriolic fury at this notion over on the Resolve forum!!), it's the way I do things, I'm happy with it and it works for me)

Regards

David

Comments

fr0sty wrote on 11/26/2019, 9:58 AM

What an odd thing to get upset about... I personally would love the ability to rename media within Vegas. Another issue I have is the filenames getting truncated, so I can't see all of them to see which clip is which on clips that have long filenames. It would be nice for the full filename to appear upon a mouse hover.

vkmast wrote on 11/26/2019, 10:12 AM

Currently I get (Thumbnail and List Views) as shown in the screenshot, when I right-click to Rename a clip in the Project Media window. I don't need to type the extension.

Musicvid wrote on 11/26/2019, 10:12 AM

Any chance you could make an option to hide the file extension in the Project Media window so that when you rename a file you don't always have to type the extension as well? For a project with lots of files to be renamed, it gets very tedious.

That sounds almost impossible to implement, since the vast majority of proxies, prerenders, and new track renders use different format extensions than the original assets. I'm sure you know that keeping or changing the extension does not affect the format, other than the likelihood of making it unplayable.

David Johns wrote on 11/27/2019, 7:57 AM

That sounds almost impossible to implement, since the vast majority of proxies, prerenders, and new track renders use different format extensions than the original assets. I'm sure you know that keeping or changing the extension does not affect the format, other than the likelihood of making it unplayable.

It shouldn't be; if I click on an item in the Project Media window then Vegas knows what item that is and what its current extension is; if I then tell it to rename it, it just needs to rename the name bit, not the extension. As it is, I can happily rename the file by selecting the name bit or doing a full rename and remembering to include the extension (and Vegas seems to update any proxies accordingly eg the sound peak files) but that's a pain.

David Johns wrote on 11/27/2019, 7:59 AM

Currently I get (Thumbnail and List Views) as shown in the screenshot, when I right-click to Rename a clip in the Project Media window. I don't need to type the extension.

You've solved it for me! How bizarre; I always work with the Project Media window in "Details" mode and when you select Rename, it highlights the entire name. As you've said, if it's in Thumbnail or List view, only the actual filename part (not the extension) is highlighted - that's exactly what I wanted so shall just be sure to switch to List view for this henceforth! Cheers :-)