How to match project and media properties

ingvarai wrote on 5/5/2009, 1:40 AM

There is supposed to be a fast way (one click) to adjust a project's settings to a certain media. Let us say I drop a video clip on the time line of an empty new Vegas project. Now I want this project's settings to match the media I have added. But I want do to it fast - a one click operation. How? I can't find it..

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Grazie wrote on 5/6/2009, 2:10 AM

Quite . . .

The point here is that, again, all of us have stumbled on a process that is counter-intuitive to what IS a fundamentally intuitive program - VEGAS.

If there is one thing that Vegas IS and that is that it IS intuitive: Yah wanna crossfade? Yah push 'em together; yah wanna . . . etc etc . .

PLUS, the ALL important: VEGAS can deal with multiple Formats! - And it is here that I find this thread turning to jello .. . If we can USE multiple Formats, then, as sure as Oeufs is Eggs why not give us a One-Click marriage between an Event on Timeline and its Project Prefs? The fact that this "option" sits Grail-Like within a Fortress and beckoning in a top-right corner, disguised ( oh yeah I like this bit . . !) as the Icon (The Browser) we are to devine that this will give us an option to MATCH the Project?!? Less than intuitive? Bob? . . . You are far too polite . . . And only THEN are you allowed to carry this further forward.

Vegas, it is totally BRILL! But sometimes ( oh and the greyed-out GenMEd Sync Lock, nearly forgot that one . . ) Vegas pulls me back into the World of "Computer Says No".

So get this off to Madison as a product request. I know I did/have done several times.

"Less than intuitive" - a definition of understatement.

Grazie

ps: Did I say I love VEgas?

<edit> Yeah, I got the Floppy Disc item wrong and edited it out . .. apologies! But my sense of Searching for the Holy Grail remains

rs170a wrote on 5/6/2009, 3:53 AM

But my sense of Searching for the Holy Grail remains

Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.
Sir Lancelot: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?
Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your favourite colour?
Sir Lancelot: Blue.
Bridgekeeper: Go on. Off you go.
Sir Lancelot: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
Sir Robin: That's easy.
Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.
Sir Robin: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I'm not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?
Sir Robin: Sir Robin of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Sir Robin: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is the capital of Assyria?
[pause]
Sir Robin: I don't know that.
[he is thrown over the edge into the volcano]
Sir Robin: Auuuuuuuugh.
Bridgekeeper: Stop. What... is your name?
Galahad: Sir Galahad of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Galahad: I seek the Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your favourite colour?
Galahad: Blue. No, yel...
[he is also thrown over the edge]
Galahad: auuuuuuuugh.
Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What... is your name?
King Arthurr: It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that.
[he is thrown over]
Bridgekeeper: Auuuuuuuugh.
Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

Rory Cooper wrote on 5/6/2009, 4:18 AM

Sir Grazie may I carry your shield and spear

And I promise not to eat the horse’s oats