FX or Pan/Crop or Bezier event overlap?

Grazie wrote on 9/19/2008, 1:16 AM
Fancy?

In Sound Forge we have an option of a pre-region sampling - great!

How about some of the same for Vegas? Altering an Event: CC, Colour Grading, Bez and so on . . I have just done a bunch of these, and I was wanting to SEE/FEEL just what preceded (or even followed!), in Preview.

That would give me more control and be consistent with SF too.

Now Bob is going to tell: "Well, Vegas needs to time sample and it can't work" or some such reasonable "can't do" reason.

Just thought you'd like to pick up on this fantastic idea and feedback. Get enough support for it and I'll sending a pigeon over to Madison.

Grazie

PS: Vegas Rox!


EDIT - spilling! What else?


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farss wrote on 9/19/2008, 3:33 AM
"Now Bob is going to tell: "Well, Vegas needs to time sample and it can't work" or some such reasonable "can't do" reason."

Who, moi?

What you're asking for is highly desirable. Anyone can make something into something else. The whole art of editing is making the "something else" work with what comes before and after.

Maybe I'm missing exactly what you're asking for here. My CSP has a button that causes Vegas to playback a section around an edit, is that sort of what you're after?
Or, do you want the playhead to jump back X seconds before the current event and playback from there?

There's also the split screen preview, only gives you a static frame from the clipboard as one half of the screen. Used that quite a bit though for lining things up.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 9/19/2008, 5:03 AM
Hell's teeth Bubola!

Look: "What you're asking for is highly desirable." . .good .. "Anyone can make something into something else. The whole art of editing is making the "something else" work with what comes before and after." Kinda know that? And . . ?

"Maybe I'm missing exactly what you're asking for here." yes, I believe you are . . . "My CSP has a button that causes Vegas to playback a section around an edit, is that sort of what you're after?" Nope! Read my post . .

"Or, do you want the playhead to jump back X seconds before the current event and playback from there?" YES! But from WITHIN the FX or Pan/Crop/ BEz or whatever . .

"There's also the split screen preview, only gives you a static frame .. " Quite, know it very well . . .

To repeat . . I would like an option to Preview, while in amongst an FX/Bez/Pan/Crop, to be able to sample prior to apply - while still IN the FX/Bez/Pan/Crop. Maybe 4 seconds? Or a curve of pre- and post- change. Sounds forge has a simliar "just before" and "just after".

Thanks Bob.

Grazie
farss wrote on 9/19/2008, 5:31 AM
Oh, NOW I've got it.

Well for sure, that makes perfect sense and YES this would be highly desirable. I haven't a clue how they'd make it happen though. I also don't have a clue why they couldn't make it happen.
One way you might get close without changing the code is two instances of Vegas with the same project open although that could cause who knows what to go wrong.

Main thing I'm trying to workout is how you'd control it from within the FX window itself, maybe another T/L which is a duplicate of the main T/L so you can scrub the project T/L from within an FX.

Ok, here's a thought. The T/L in the FX window could be X seconds longer at both ends than the event, make the head and tail extension a different color. Have a snap point at the in/out of the actual event that you have to push past to break through, just so it doesn't mung existing functionality. Or else a toggle to extend the T/L.

Sorry to ramble.

I should probably mention that this is sort of how AE works but it's built on a very different model. If I ever win a lottery I'm buying you a copy of AE or Digital Fusion :)

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 9/19/2008, 6:17 AM
"Ok, here's a thought. The T/L in the FX window could be X seconds longer at both ends than the event, make the head and tail extension a different color."

That is EXACTLY what I was driving at. When I get to the point of interpreting the feel/action/transition( not THOSE transitions!) from Event A to Event B, using one of the controlling modifiers, I have choked on the wish of wanting to experience what was/would be coming INTO the clip/event.

Idea off to Madison?

Cheers,

Grazie