List of things i'd like to change

joseph-c wrote on 2/4/2017, 6:44 PM

Things that make me think about using a different software other than Vegas:

1) seems there is no ability to zoom in on the viewer for editing purposes, nor ability to pan.

2) while the track motion is opened and i'm zoomed WAY in to align things on the viewer, it would be nice if i could pan around within the tack motion without having to zoom out. otherwise i end up just moving something i didn't want to move.

3) no true 60 FPS rendering, 59.94 is not the same thing.

4) vegas has outdated codecs it seems. recording Intel Qsync to record (like in OBS Studio) mp4 files results in a fine recording that works well in every player...except vegas. Instead i get artifacts all over the place

5) no updated and working GPU support.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/4/2017, 7:45 PM

Adding the ability to zoom in to the preview windows & pan around would be very handy. What I've done is make everything under a parent track & use the parent motion to do similar. Then when I'm all done delete the parent track.

in 10 in track motion there's little icons in the lower right that let me zoom in/out & pan around w/o zooming out.

In 10 & earlier, if you wanted to render to a specific framerate you just type it in I'd type in 60 all the time for PC only playback. Not all codec's support all framerates. Some times the render crashes with an error, sometimes it renders out & the file is bad, depending on the codec, if you're using unsupported settings.

Wikipedia says Intel QSync isn't for general editing but for specific software/hardware recording/playback combinations. Sounds like it's meant like mpeg-2 was, delivery codec not editing codec. Vegas doesn't use the Windows codec's for most of it's operations, it uses it's own. It would need to be added to the program somehow and only the developers would know if it could be done.

Musicvid wrote on 2/4/2017, 8:00 PM

1,2: You're asking for processing power that is better spent on the video stream processing. It's not at all like a "viewer" or game. It's bits and flops, nothing else.

3. Really? It's news to me.

4. This may be variable framerate, but without a sample illustrating "artifacts," along with project, render, and MediaInfo properties for both source and render, no one will ever know.

4a. I think VFR is already on the to-do list. There is no lack of advocacy on this forum.

5. That one is a dead fish.

 

ushere wrote on 2/4/2017, 10:35 PM

 That one is a dead fish. and beginning to smell ;-(