For me, these are the top 5 housekeeping type items that I would like to see improved. There are other upgrade items that I would like to see of course, but these items already either exist in parts, or should exist.
1. Ripple Edit.
2. Copy/paste attributes including keyframes to clips.
3. Ditto features in track motion to event pan/crop (Namely Glow and Shadow).
4. Audio scrub by dragging timeline cursor.
5. Include sound in firewire (pre-render) output.
Explanations:
1. Ripple Edit. My number one complaint. The quick and easy fix would be to add an item that selects all events on all tracks from cursor to end (clip based NOT frame based). It could easily be better than that, but I will take quick and easy over nothing.
2. Copy/paste attributes including keyframes to clips. This is a more complex issue so I will give a basic example: You have 25 stills on a timeline and you want to A: Apply interlace filter to all and B: Apply a Video FX with keyframes to all clips. The bottom line is yes - you can do this if you know your way around VV3.
In the case of (A) when you select multiple events, properties (and therefore Apply interlace filter) is disabled, however, you can right click>switches>interlace...
In the case of (B) most people would say you can't copy video FX keyframes from one clip to another. Actually, you can, you just have to know the trick. You can't do it globally, but if copying an exact keyframe sequence from one clip to another is important, it can be done.
My point here is this stuff is kind of all over the place and it would be nice to have one section where you can copy/paste attributes (whatever they may be) from one clip to another or to a series of other clips. It is standard in other editing programs.
3. Ditto features in track motion to event pan/crop (Namely Glow and Shadow). I like to keep my tracks to a minimum. If you want to do a pip with a border, track motion is the only tool that will do it easily. What if you have 50 of them? That would be too many tracks to easily manage. I much prefer to do this on the event level, not the track level.
4. Audio scrub by dragging timeline cursor. I have learned my way around this, but still think it is a valuable feature if it is possible to do.
5. Include sound in firewire (pre-render) output. Not too far in our future is real time straight cut output from the timeline. It would be nice if there is audio to go along with it.
Hopefully, you all will add constructive suggestions to this list.
It would also be nice if SF would tell us if some, all, none of these items are in the works for the next update. Timing for the next update would be nice as well.
Even if SF does nothing, I am convinced that VV3 is the best editing software available on the market today and I am still very happy that I bought it.
Thank you.
1. Ripple Edit.
2. Copy/paste attributes including keyframes to clips.
3. Ditto features in track motion to event pan/crop (Namely Glow and Shadow).
4. Audio scrub by dragging timeline cursor.
5. Include sound in firewire (pre-render) output.
Explanations:
1. Ripple Edit. My number one complaint. The quick and easy fix would be to add an item that selects all events on all tracks from cursor to end (clip based NOT frame based). It could easily be better than that, but I will take quick and easy over nothing.
2. Copy/paste attributes including keyframes to clips. This is a more complex issue so I will give a basic example: You have 25 stills on a timeline and you want to A: Apply interlace filter to all and B: Apply a Video FX with keyframes to all clips. The bottom line is yes - you can do this if you know your way around VV3.
In the case of (A) when you select multiple events, properties (and therefore Apply interlace filter) is disabled, however, you can right click>switches>interlace...
In the case of (B) most people would say you can't copy video FX keyframes from one clip to another. Actually, you can, you just have to know the trick. You can't do it globally, but if copying an exact keyframe sequence from one clip to another is important, it can be done.
My point here is this stuff is kind of all over the place and it would be nice to have one section where you can copy/paste attributes (whatever they may be) from one clip to another or to a series of other clips. It is standard in other editing programs.
3. Ditto features in track motion to event pan/crop (Namely Glow and Shadow). I like to keep my tracks to a minimum. If you want to do a pip with a border, track motion is the only tool that will do it easily. What if you have 50 of them? That would be too many tracks to easily manage. I much prefer to do this on the event level, not the track level.
4. Audio scrub by dragging timeline cursor. I have learned my way around this, but still think it is a valuable feature if it is possible to do.
5. Include sound in firewire (pre-render) output. Not too far in our future is real time straight cut output from the timeline. It would be nice if there is audio to go along with it.
Hopefully, you all will add constructive suggestions to this list.
It would also be nice if SF would tell us if some, all, none of these items are in the works for the next update. Timing for the next update would be nice as well.
Even if SF does nothing, I am convinced that VV3 is the best editing software available on the market today and I am still very happy that I bought it.
Thank you.