You can't do this within the Vegas window. However, what you could do is make the Vegas window shorter so it only fills up the bottom half of the screen, then detatch the various sub windows that usually are at the bottom and and drag the to the top of the screen.

Where are internal Preferences? I'm not sure where Docking is.
If I change just that setting, can Vegas still be damaged? What could happen?

Thanks again

To get to the internal preferences, hold down the Shift key while clicking Options / Preferences. A new tab will show up labeled "Internal".

What Spot means by damage is that if you change any other settings you could make things stop working. There won't be any permanent damage though. If you get too messed up, simply quit Vegas, then hold down the Ctrl & Shift keys while starting it again to reset everything back to the defaults. Of course, this will reset even the things you wanted changed, so you'll have to tweak them all over again.

I only see "Frame Dock at Top" and, when set to "TRUE", that takes away the video preview. (not the desired effect). This is in Vegas 5.

You've got the right option, but when you frame the dock at the top, you also need to pull down the docking area. Then you'll see your video preview.

EXCELLENT!!! Thanks, Spot. Wish I had known about this before!

dvideo,
you might find this customizing tutorial to help you customize the Vegas workspace to your particular needs.
HTH

son't forget to save your setting :
(ctrl+alt +D / # (from one to zero, top of keyboard))
so you can call it back :
(alt+D / # (up to 10 presets, that is...))

I was just wondering this the other day. I like the monitor on top and who the hell knew there were hidden preferences?! :) Excellent. Thank you.

just came across this thread, and have a couple of questions:

a. is there a list explaining exactly what the individual internal preferences do? (i know most are self-explanitory)

b. if we're not to play with them, why have them in the first place?

leslie

Programers use these. For us, they're well hidden and you normally wouldn't mess with them.

There's a downside to having the preview window at the top and that is tha as you drag objects out of the other windows, dragging downward to the timeline, you inadvertantly change focus on the tabs you drag across. Not nice but you can learn to go around them.

Rob Mack

There is an article on customizing Vegas found here that also references why you might want to be careful about settings.

Where are the internal preferences in vms 6.?
I'd love to move the timelines also but the shift preferences thing doesn't work. It did in 4.0
Thanks

I don't believe they want you messing with anything in the consumer application. The tech support nightmare alone could be killer.

So are you saying it's there?

No, it's not there. Not in any access I can find in VMS Platinum