When you say you "haven't had a problem manually adding markers in VMS", do you mean that you manually add a marker for each clip? If I have 50 clips, it seems like a pain to do it manually.

On the other hand, I don't think I'm ready to dive into the complexity of Pro and scripting quite yet...

Even with 50 clips it may be a little time consuming, but it's not really onerous.

Select a track that has the clips on it and move to the beginning of the timeline. Press M to insert the marker, then press Shift-Alt-right-arrow to move to the beginning of the next clip. Press M and repeat.

Note that Shift-Alt-right-arrow actually moves to the next fade edge as well as clip boundries, so if you have fades or overlaps you may have to press it more than once to get to the next clip. It's probably better to choose the video track than the audio track since Vegas automatically adds tiny fades to the beginning and end of each audio event. If you've done nothing but butt the events together then the video events shouldn't have any fades.

My recent wedding video had four menu pages with six markers on each. The tedious part was making the menu captions look right with no overlapping. Adding in the markers in VMS was the easy part.

One thing to note wrt the Pro version. It is going to be remarkably similar to the Studio version. Sony (in my opinion) did it right, in as much as the "consumer" version of their app is essentially the same as the "prosumer" version, but with some features removed. I think you'd hardly notice the Pro switch. It's quite a bit more expensive, but does also come with many more features, including the scriptability.

And, KenJ62 mentioned there were already scripts available, so you'd not have to delve into scripting any further than "run->script" =)

All that being said, if you can deal with the odd 'drat, only Pro you say?', VMS is a remarkably powerful editor, especially with the enhancements in v10.

CraigL

Thanks to all of you!

The Shift-Alt-right-arrow is a great tip--I'll use that for now.

I've tried several consumer NLEs, with mixed results on everything I've used previously. I switched to Vegas because 1) the pro version was highly regarded by a couple of my friends and 2) as mentioned above, the consumer version has a similar interface. When I find that I actually need the pro features, I'm glad that I won't have to learn a new interface...