Feature Request for Vegas 8

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/19/2007, 10:40 AM

I was over a friends house seeing what FCS2 could do and I noticed when he was working with levels, he had a Zebra pattern that showed up on screen that showed him when it levels were blown out. I thought it was brilliant. Any chance we can get this in Vegas instead of always having to use the scopes for cases where time is money?

It was amazing. I'm actually surprised Vegas doesn't have this already honestly.

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jrazz wrote on 7/20/2007, 7:29 AM

I would really like to be able to pause a render or stop a render and pick back up exactly where I left off. That would be the most important feature request for me.

Something else I would like to see is the ability to choose which event becomes highlighted after a split. Often times I want to delete the event to the left of the split but after I split the event to the right is always highlighted. I would like to be able to toggle between these two as options by a single button on the timeline right up there with the auto-ripple button.

j razz

farss wrote on 7/20/2007, 7:41 AM

Seeing as how we're drifting off topic, anyone else think a 'Select Events to Beginning' option on RClick would be usefull.
As someone who mostly hacks away on the T/L I'd sure use it a fair bit. For example (I avoid scene detection like the plague) my client gives me some 'extras' on the end of the tape to use for menu BGs. Trim the main programs and then I'd like to create / save as a new proj with just those bits at them end in it. Not really a biggy, I can do it with the Selection tool but I need to zoom right out and at times it hard to see what I'm selecting.

Bob.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 7/20/2007, 9:47 AM

sounds to me like you folks need to get a bella, Some of these things are keyboard shortcuts that you just don't seem to know (and neither did I till I started using it).

Select the event left of the trimmer is the " [ " key (that's actually the trimming key but it selects it and then you can just hit delete).

there's not a "select events to beginning" but there is a "begin" key so all you'd have to do is select the event you want to delete and hit the " w " key and then shift select the first even of that track and hit delete.

I'm telling you, get a Bella. The time you save with it, is well worth the money you spend on it.

Dave

vitalforce wrote on 7/20/2007, 11:21 AM

A zebra feature would probably be useful to me because, after several hours of color correction, my eyes get saturated with either a predominant color or luminance. I tend to drift the correction to a lighter and lighter value, which forced me to learn to rely heavily on scopes for a rough idea of how bright a given event was. Zebra would be sort of a fire bell reminding me of where I am.

However, I wish Sony would consider a feature similar to the "clipped peaks" function in Sound Forge for clipped audio, a "rounding" or curved-knee function for the part of a shot that is going over 100%. I know Curves can handle this but the more I use Curves, the more I struggle with fine-tuning a blowout while trying not to blanch out the color at higher luminances.