Hi, is there a way to make a certain plugin as a permanent part of the general Vegas layout?
I find it not very comfortable when I apply a Video FX and its opened as a new window where I always have to make this window bigger etc. I would like to have certain plugins as a permanent part of the general layout. I know they will become active only after applying them to the timeline.
There are at least five ways to apply fx, per event, per track, onto the media itself,on an adjustment layer (post compositing) utilizing an empty track below whatever compositing you're doing, or on the Master video Bus output (the end of the chain of everything).
> where I always have to make this window bigger
Hint: double click on the FX window title to auto-adjust its size.
The only comfortable way to really work with Vegas, at least for me, is to have three monitors, one for the main page, timeline etc.; one dedicated just to preview, and one for an open pan/crop -fx window that stays open and switches when you refocus to a new event, but that window stays open if it is sitting in its own monitor. Actually, this is a decent way to work, and I am like you, moving that pan crop/fx window around is for the birds.
BTW, this fx window monitor can be an older one that you might otherwise throw away, doesn't need to be fancy or big, not at all, just something to view the information you'd need to see. Since I am using a dedicated Black Magic card for preview, my other PC slot video card can run those other two monitors just fine. No boggind down either.
@fifonik and @zdogg your advice is good, but I’m almost sure it’s not what @liork is wanting. If I’m correct @liork is wanting is for the ACTUAL FX Menu Pane to be a permanently revealed as part of the Windows Layout like Trimmer or Project Media or Explorer. If I’m right then this is a completely “other” understanding of just what the Vegas Workflow is.
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Hi, is there a way to make a certain plugin as a permanent part of the general Vegas layout?
I find it not very comfortable when I apply a Video FX and its opened as a new window where I always have to make this window bigger etc. I would like to have certain plugins as a permanent part of the general layout. I know they will become active only after applying them to the timeline.
No. Neither the "Plug-In Chooser" window nor the "Video Event FX" window can be saved into a Vegas Windows Layout.
Yes, so my method, the dedicated, even if small, monitor -- works well, really well as an alternate Actually better because you really do need at least a modicum of screen real estate for that window..
I suppose if you have a mega monitor you could have that pan/crop/fx window stay open off to the side of the timeline window, something like that.