Feature Request: Coloured Markers on Timeline

Wolfgang S. wrote on 7/4/2024, 6:54 AM

Great suggestion!

Gid wrote on 7/4/2024, 6:55 AM

& Regions

RogerS wrote on 7/4/2024, 6:58 AM

I agree, that's a good idea. Different colors for different uses (chapters vs beats, etc.)

Dexcon wrote on 7/4/2024, 7:17 AM

I couldn't agree more - but I would want to see a user choice of colors where the editor can choose what color is used for what purpose; i.e. no pre-named reasons for a particular color. Resolve already allows this with a choice of marker colors:

... but Vegas Pro has the huge advantage of being able to name the markers whereas Resolve doesn't. The color selection should ideally allow for the chosen color in the drop-down menu to be user-named for the purpose that it is being used. Even if the latter isn't possible as yet, the ability to change the marker colors would be so, sooooooooo welcome.

At the moment, I use regions just to delineate sections of the project from the markers purely because of the difference in colors.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 7/4/2024, 8:09 AM

Same for me - regions were a second color.

I have produced a huge documentary, where it was necessary to find detailed content on the timeline. Markers were some way to organize that. But markers are only the beginning - and too rough in many ways.

Different color would be an improvement. But a better content management based on markers would be better. To be able to list markers by timecode. To be able to group markers - by topic, but in different positions on the timeline. And so on.

m3lquixd wrote on 7/4/2024, 8:29 AM

Up!

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/10/2024, 7:32 PM

+1

Robert Johnston wrote on 7/12/2024, 1:31 AM

@Freefly Could you use the track markers (N) and index markers (Shift-N)? Looks like with the index markers you can add them during playback. I don't know how many you can add.

Mindmatter wrote on 7/12/2024, 3:15 AM

yes! also, please add more track colors, and also
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Freefly wrote on 7/12/2024, 3:36 AM

@Freefly Could you use the track markers (N) and index markers (Shift-N)? Looks like with the index markers you can add them during playback. I don't know how many you can add.

I can only add one track marker but can add multiple index markers...but again, the index markers are all the same colour.

rraud wrote on 7/12/2024, 9:10 AM

+11

Freefly wrote on 7/30/2024, 9:54 AM

So, Vegas 22 now has tempo and beat detection! Did they listen to our request or was this coming anyway? Either way, nice one 🙏👍

Reyfox wrote on 7/30/2024, 10:03 AM

Either way, I am happy about it.

Freefly wrote on 7/30/2024, 10:12 AM

Either way, I am happy about it.

Me too. I haven't had a chance to delve deeply into this update, but by all accounts it looks pretty good.

VEGASDerek wrote on 7/30/2024, 11:21 AM

This feature has been on our list for a very long time. (Longer than I have been involved in VEGAS, so you know it has been a long time.) Now that we have an engineer to work on audio features, we were finally able to get it implemented. We had a long back log of audio features, but for years when we worked for Magix, we were not able to have an audio expert on our team. Now we have an engineer to do this work and we are slowly working through the backlog of features and fixes that we have needed for the audio side of VEGAS.

Freefly wrote on 7/30/2024, 11:44 AM

This feature has been on our list for a very long time. (Longer than I have been involved in VEGAS, so you know it has been a long time.) Now that we have an engineer to work on audio features, we were finally able to get it implemented. We had a long back log of audio features, but for years when we worked for Magix, we were not able to have an audio expert on our team. Now we have an engineer to do this work and we are slowly working through the backlog of features and fixes that we have needed for the audio side of VEGAS.

This is great news! Thanks Derek 👍

zzzzzz9125 wrote on 7/30/2024, 11:52 AM

This feature has been on our list for a very long time. (Longer than I have been involved in VEGAS, so you know it has been a long time.) Now that we have an engineer to work on audio features, we were finally able to get it implemented. We had a long back log of audio features, but for years when we worked for Magix, we were not able to have an audio expert on our team. Now we have an engineer to do this work and we are slowly working through the backlog of features and fixes that we have needed for the audio side of VEGAS.

@VEGASDerek Are some other audio features under consideration? For example, native sidechain compression support, project BPM that can change over time, and ...

Anyway, I'm looking forward to this kind of transformation in VEGAS. I edit audio in VEGAS for about the same amount of time as video, maybe even longer. In terms of operational logic, VEGAS is naturally well suited for audio editing, far more so than other NLEs.