I agree about being able to control the colours, but my reason is that it lloks too toylike at the moment.

MrPhil - you can change track colours by right clicking on the track pane and selecting 'track display colour'.

Arnar - agreed, though I think the thing that makes it look toy-like is the big block of colour at the top left hand corner of each track pane. I mean, Sony, is there a way you could do this a bit cooler and subtler? While not a big deal, it does look a bit naff. My workaround for this, especially when working with clients, is to have a project template where all the tracks alternate between just two shades of blue - one light, one dark. Looks ok.

Don't know if we'll see any interface enhancments in Vegas 5...?

Ben

If you mean the colour of the track number and waveforms, then yes, right click on is, go to 'track display color' and choose... a colour.

If you highlight several tracks (using shift+left click) you can change them all at the same time, eg drums, then bass, guitar etc.

OK Ben and ibliss, maybe I should be more specific what I mean.

The "select track display color" I know of, it's the eight colors you can chose to select.
What I mean is a way to CHANGE those eight colors to a different color scheme, that is IMO more well working.
As it is now the colors you can chose is somewhat randomly colored... a dark red... three dark blue I think, a piss yellow... it's just un-usable colors IMO.
I would like a way to color i.e. different kind of guitars in different shades of blue, lead vocal as red and backing vocals as maybe a darker red, drums as green and percussion as a lighter green... and so on.
In Sound Forge you can set colors on waveforms in any variety of colors you want, and there you only work with a single track at a time.
Vegas is MTR, and there it should be really useful.

bump!

It would be awesome if you could set it up to have a DEFAULT track color. I hate that it colors all tracks differently. It makes it look like a toy.

Is there a way to setup a DEFAULT color for tracks? I would much rather have all Audio tracks one color and all Video tracks be another. This would look much better than the random colors VEGAS generates. Alongside the new icons in V5... the random colors really make it look like a toy and not so much Pro.

Click options, then click preferences, then click display

choose which track color you are concerned with, click the color hue it up to your heart's content

AAAAAAHHH!!!! This is great! You made my day!
I hope this works for v4 too.... have to check it later!

Well after checking version 4, the answer is: NO.
The feature in v5 where you can set this is NOT in v4.
Well at least the progress goes in the right direction!