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rs170a wrote on 1/20/2006, 3:29 PM
You got me curious so I tried it too. Looks like you can't change the names of the Vegas FX, only extra ones that you've added.

Mike
David Jimerson wrote on 1/20/2006, 3:34 PM
You mean right-click on the box with the eye in it? Nothing happens when I do that.

Why do you WANT to change the name?
busterkeaton wrote on 1/20/2006, 4:08 PM
I was thinking of naming the four or five most used FX, so that they show up first in the list.

like
"1-Sony Color Curves"
"2-Sony Color Corrector"

I was also thinking, that if I got ambitious I would categorize each effect by name, for example, giving each FX that can be used for color correction a Correct prefix.
David Jimerson wrote on 1/20/2006, 4:25 PM
Sounds like a good organizational idea -- you want to rename the whole group of effects, not just the individual presets?

Which version of Vegas are you on? In Vegas 6, right-clicking on the effects group name (on the left) doesn't do anything. I wonder if it did in an earlier version.
GlennChan wrote on 1/20/2006, 4:55 PM
Shorter names would be really nice. When you have serveral FX, you have to start scrolling left/right.
busterkeaton wrote on 1/20/2006, 6:24 PM
I want to rename the filter you pick from the list in the Plug-in Chooser Video Event FX window. So rename Sony Glow, for example.

I am on Vegas 6.

Grazie wrote on 1/21/2006, 12:49 AM
Kinda Workaround - though it does have a Safety feature built in!:

Forget renaming the Top Level Fx names; regard these as sacrosanct and non-negotiable. Reasons? There might be 3rd Party Software that actually need them NAMED in the way they are - yeah? Mind a "Copy" would be neat? Anyways . ..

Ok, think ONLY about naming and renaming Chains. Have a Chain that ONLY includes the Sony Glow. So it would be a ONE-LINK chain. Now name that Chain "BK-Glow"! Done!

This leads onto the subject of Fx organisation - Folder creation. Vegas allows us to Create new folders within the Fx Plugin Manager.

I create new folders; highlight and drag a bunch of "Chains" . .sorry CHAINS not Fxs into these new folders. This is great to separate Chains into something like a logical pattern and NOT to have to Scan 'N Pan dozens of Chains.

Also I now tend to use Plug-In manager and Drag n Plop Fxs/CHAINS onto the Event. This ways I got a Tree View of my "creative" lovely chains all nicely Tree-ed up and folderized ( folderized, yuck! ) - as it were!

Like that one BK?

Grazie



busterkeaton wrote on 1/21/2006, 12:12 PM
Thanks Grazie, that does seem like a fairly elegant solution