How to get MVP 14 to indicate clips used in media files

Len Kaufman wrote on 1/5/2017, 9:19 PM

Well, if I learned nothing else today (and I have), I've learned not to ask for a new feature, but rather to ask how to access a feature. In the media window, is there a way to have an indication showing which files have already been used? When you place a clip on the timeline, a highlight or something shows up on the corresponding thumbnail in the media files box?

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ccliffy wrote on 1/6/2017, 10:45 AM

I would have liked just to moueover a clip in the timeline and see file name. Going to rt.click > Properties is to tedious for more than a few clips

Len Kaufman wrote on 1/6/2017, 11:00 AM

This will help with that one: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/sony-vegas-pro-11-add-clip-name-to-timeline--89373/

Cliff Etzel wrote on 1/7/2017, 10:01 AM

Seems remiss given I use this feature in Premiere Pro CS6 all the time. Shows a small orange symbol at the bottom right of every clip used. I know exactly what clip is being used on the timeline. Another little but useful feature keeping me from switching to Vegas as much as I'd like to. I'm guessing unless the issues of GPU for video processing being unavailable and other usability features are added to a vp14 update, I'll have to pass and wait til vp15 is released.

Former user wrote on 2/9/2018, 11:21 AM

Being so lucky that my projects normally contain only up to a few hundred clips I have the program Directory Opus on my right 32 inch monitor showing the clips as clear and large 80x45 millimeters thumbnails.

As editing goes on Vegas put a .sfk file at each thumbnail indicating it has been used at least one time.

Sometimes during the editing process I delete all .sfk files and also do a Remove all unused media in the Vegas Project Media.

After reopening the project Vegas builds all the .sfk files - and now it is easy to see in the Directory Opus thumbnail list which clips are actually used and which are not.

It is nice to be able to identify the unused clips so easily and at the same time to be able to see what they contain in such a large thumbnail.

I have asked the Directory Opus developers if they could leave out showing the .sfk files and instead mark the .sfk-thumbnails file with a small dot or the like - but they would not consider it at the time I asked. It is not really a problem as I can have 7x7 = 49 thumbnails on one screen - so there is plenty of space anyway.

I elected to display the .sfk files as very light grey in Directory Opus, that way there much less visually intrusive.