If you have Sound Forge, insert the markers (or regions) on an audio track. In Vegas, the SF marker(s) should be visible thin vertical lines embedded in the audio track's waveform. I do not know if this method would work with other audio editing apps.
Otherwise, I am not aware of a way to do this natively in Vegas, except by giving the VP timeline marker a unique name.

rraud, Sound Forge forum moderator

@VT_91 If you put each track into it's own little project file with track-specific markers and then nest them all into a multi-track master project, they'll all be visible and slide around as you position them. Also works for many formats if you explicitly create intermediates and select the "save markers" render option. Unfortunately no way I know of to navigate embedded markers unless you manually drop regular markers or regions over them.

@VT_91, you can also insert markers with the trimmer window. Those markers will show up inside your timeline clip event and will move along with the event.

If trimmer markers travel with events to the timeline, why has the long overdue "lock markers to events" on the timeline itself not been implemented? Many of us seldom use the trimmer at all and bring clips directly to the timeline for editing. Locking/unlocking markers to events would be a blessing when moving clips forward/backward on the timeline.

Many of us seldom use the trimmer at all and bring clips directly to the timeline for editing. Locking/unlocking markers to events would be a blessing when moving clips forward/backward on the timeline.

+1

If trimmer markers travel with events to the timeline, why has the long overdue "lock markers to events" on the timeline itself not been implemented?

As so often happens here on the forums, you make it sound like it's just some magically easy thing to do that we simply choose not to do for some reason. What you are asking is not easy. There are technical reasons for this which have to do with fundemntal models of timeline and marker implementation. That doesn't mean we won't consider it. We will.

In the meantime, this seems like a workaround that could help:

1. Click to place the timeline cursor inside the target event
2. Right-click the target event and choose Open in Trimmer
3. Press M to add a marker (name it if you like)
4. Return to the timeline and the marker is embedded into your event

It doesn't mean you have to "use" the Trimmer and change your workflow where you "bring clips directly to the timeline for editing". You're only using the Trimmer to embed the ride-along markers that you want. Yes, I fully understand it's not exactly what you want. I only offer it as a workaround.

I imagine you could even write a script to make it a one-button operation.

I imagine you could even write a script to make it a one-button operation.

A script could certainly be written to move a marker from the timeline to an event (or all events under the marker) on the timeline. Or, better yet, just create a marker on the selected event under the cursor. I'll do a tutorial on that in a few weeks (the next 3 are already done).

@gary-rebholz Hi, thanks for that, yep it puts a marker on the event, but back in Preview mode the cursor doesn't 'snap' to that marker & i can't 'jump' to it by pressing 1 etc.? Is there an option like right click 'go to next marker' ? Ctrl+Left/Right doesn't work on those markers in Preview mode window, only in the Trimmer window

@Former user Gid raises a good question that Trimmer markers are not yet capable of being adsorbable in timelines.

I imagine you could even write a script to make it a one-button operation.

A script could certainly be written to move a marker from the timeline to an event (or all events under the marker) on the timeline. Or, better yet, just create a marker on the selected event under the cursor. I'll do a tutorial on that in a few weeks (the next 3 are already done).

By selling your product, you discourage Vegas developers from adding useful features to the original software.

Erm… Promote Markers doesn’t work?

Erm… Promote Markers doesn’t work?

Promote Media Markers will bring all markers embedded in the events to the main timeline. However, when the events are moved, those "promoted" markers will not move with them.

@VT_91

"By selling your product, you discourage Vegas developers from adding useful features to the original software."

That's an unwarranted assumption. Third-party developers rarely discourage corporations from doing anything they chose. Usually, it's the other way around.

An aside:

I had a similar sentiment as you about markers sticking to the event about ten or more years ago. Somehow, I managed to crank out a few trivial videos with the program the way it was/is. You could, too.

By selling your product, you discourage Vegas developers from adding useful features to the original software.

@VT_91 Who said anything about selling a product? I was talking about writing a tutorial about how to add a marker to an event on the timeline to add to my scripting tutorials that anyone could then use for free.

Besides, my retail script has never discouraged them from adding new features. Excalibur had multi-cam for Vegas 4. Vegas added that a few years later. Excalibur has an option to "unsplit" an event. Vegas added the "heal" option a few years ago. There's many things that used to be doable only with a script that Vegas can now do natively.

@VT_91

"By selling your product, you discourage Vegas developers from adding useful features to the original software."

That's an unwarranted assumption. Third-party developers rarely discourage corporations from doing anything they chose. Usually, it's the other way around.

An aside:

I had a similar sentiment as you about markers sticking to the event about ten or more years ago. Somehow, I managed to crank out a few trivial videos with the program the way it was/is. You could, too.

My boss and I decided that we are moving away from Vegas to Da Vinci next year.

My boss and I decided that we are moving away from Vegas to Da Vinci next year.

However, take some time to study the manual beforehand - it has 3625 pages.
Have fun browsing through it!

Yes, Resolve has quite the steep learning curve for sure. I have Resolve Studio to do certain things. But for editing, Vegas to "me" is faster. I was able to get up and running with Vegas almost immediately. After 2 weeks of figuring out where everything was, it was easy. I showed a first time Vegas user how to get up with the basics in a Google Meet in an hour.

Enjoy Resolve @VT_91

I find both Vegas and Da Vinci to be very intuitive.
I found it to be a lot easier to create an animated circular overlay in DaVinci then in Vegas.
Another post that I considered writing.

Vegas is a little faster, yet has more limitations to its functionality.
I want to put a simple text with a rectangular background in it.

In Vegas it takes a lot more steps then in other software.

@VT_91 Yeah it takes ages to put a background behind text in Vegas, in this vid it took me at least 20secs,😏

What do you mean by 'create an animated circular overlay'?

circular overlay is when I want to inscribe something in a circle to attract viewer's attention.

Ideally, an animation, yet if it is as difficult to create as in Vegas, I would keep it very simple

I wish there was a standard function, like when you use a virtual marker to draw on a screen during a presentation.

I decided that I need to make a video about all the time that I spent looking for a video editor that has all the things that I want in the right places.

@VT_91 Did you try Cookie Cutter?

Yes I did.
Here is what I encounter:


I cannot draw a border with no infill with this set of options.
I know that I can work around this in five steps, yet this was the point when I decided to simply create a still and add a circle in Adobe Illustrator.


So why offer hundreds of rarely needed special effects when there are few necessities such as encircling, writing captions on a background of color over the video, automatic transitions and a few others that every youtuber would need sooner then later?