How would you define media management?

rmack350 wrote on 12/24/2004, 10:26 PM

Happy Holidays!

Every so often a post mentions media management as being a weak point of Vegas. What sort of media management features have you seen or imagined? What sort of projects would you like to have better management with?

What immediately comes to mind is long form projects where you might want to drop in whole scenes and sections as alternate edits.

Rob Mack

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NickHope wrote on 12/24/2004, 11:32 PM

For me it means doing everything I want with files from within one instance of Vegas itself, without going out to external tools like Search, Explorer etc.. Plus of course some killer apps to make your work easier.

So I'd like to see stuff like:

1. thumbnail view in the explorer window as well as media pool

2. a Scenalyzer-like view of media files, so I can scratch through them and find what I want. I'm ALWAYS opening Scenalyzer just to do this, not for capture. I guess what I mean is a "scratch view" in Vegas' explorer and media pool windows, like a mini timeline of each event. That would be well cool.

3. Much more intelligence in not losing pre-renders just because you move them or make a minor change to part of them.

4. a "trim parent media" command so I don't have to save a project with copy and trim to get rid of unwanted ends of files.

5. a "jump to timeline instances" command on the context menu in the media pool or explorer windows, so I can quickly get to where the file is actually used.

6. a command to clean up orphaned sfk files.

7. copy and paste of chunks of timeline between 2 projects in one Vegas instance

8. full blown search within Vegas

9. a "parent media length" column in the edit details.

rmack350 wrote on 12/25/2004, 12:01 AM

All sounds good. Sounds like #4 is a destructive edit capability in the trimmer. Sure, why not? You would want to make sure you can recapture the trimmed clip from tape later on so it has to retain all of that info in the new file.

I'd add something like "consolidate media" or "move media" so that you can get all the clips you've selected moved into one place. "copy and trim" doesn't quite cut it because it makes wav64 files out of the audio.

Rob Mack