Internal preferences

Rosebud wrote on 4/25/2005, 10:53 AM
In the internal vegas6 preferences, i have noticed those two options :

-Positional Timeline Scrub (by default on FALSE)
I can't see any diference when on TRUE.
Any idea of what is it ?

-Enable multi core rendering for playback (by default on FALSE)
I am surprised about this option, why it is not on TRUE ?
Can anybody (with dual core or bi processor) make test with this option on TRUE ?

Comments

MyST wrote on 4/25/2005, 11:22 AM
In case you weren't aware of it, Sony has stated that playing around with the internal preferences is at your own risk.

Mario
chaboud wrote on 4/25/2005, 11:30 AM
Indeed it is. In fact, in both of these cases, I'd advise against setting them.

What an internal pref describes and what it does may not always be what you expect.
phil_s wrote on 4/23/2006, 2:55 AM
Where does one find these preferences?
riredale wrote on 4/23/2006, 9:13 AM
Disclaimer: I'm replying only because this has been discussed before on this forum, and the answer is out there already. Also because there is one change I strongly prefer.

Options menu, hold down the shift key before hitting Preferences. A new tab called Internal will appear.

Look but don't touch, or at least if you do, assume you will screw something up and be forced to resort to the "reset to default" trick, which I forget.

There is, however, one setting which I strongly recommend, and i'm surprised Vegas doesn't have this as an easily-reachable adjustment in the regular preferences items:

Scroll about 7 clicks down (about 1/3 of the way from top to bottom) and you'll see an adjustment called "Snap Width (in pixels)." Default is 7, but the magnetic attraction of clips was way too strong for me--it interfered with fine adjustment, in my opinion. I changed this setting to 3 (in the Value column), and I love the results.

Again, this tab is not mentioned in the manual for a good reason, but if you're the type who just loves to go into the Windows Registry, or gets a thrill from taking apart old carburetors, have fun.
Nat wrote on 4/23/2006, 9:27 AM
Also, for those who like having the timeline at the bottom, write "Dock" in the filter section, this will show the "Frame Dock at the top" option, set it to true to have your timeline at the bottom. Note that you can now save a window layout and the preference will be remembered in the window layout preset, you don't need to go back to internal preferences each time you want to switch from top to bottom, just change window layouts.