Hello,

This is my entire 20-point list with suggestions for future improvements in Vegas Pro in my opinion.

Hopefully you will see the point of these improvements and will apply for them as well. Union makes force!

1. Drag video-event without his sound

   It would be good if, when dragging with the right mouse a video event from the timeline to another track together with pressing CTRL key, we could copy a video event with all the associated effects without choosing the sound by making a selection in a small context menu.

2. Zoom in and out in preview window

   Zoom in and out the preview-screen without changing the entire Vegas configuration, as happens with many other video editors.

3. Turn Scrub on/off

   Add a button in the Project Media list to turn the Project Media Hover Scrub on or off.

4. Marker numbering

   Increase the marker numbering in the timeline to 999. Point 4 was resolved in vegas Pro 18 😀

5. Selectively Paste Event Attributes

   Add to "Selectively Paste Event Attributes" the transition Fade-In Offset and Fade-Out Offset also at events without overlap.

6. Selectively Paste Event Attributes

    Add to "Selectively Paste Event Attributes" the Video event Mask settings

7. Enlarge the Fade In and Out Snap button by the events in the timeline

   Enlarge the Fade In and Out Snap button as it becomes invisible and not to be snapped when the Velocity envelope is at 1000%.

   Enlarge also where necessary other buttons in the timeline

8. Update old video DX-effects to OFX-effects

   Update all old video DX-effects to newer OFX-plugins. These DX effects are not always compatible with some third party applications.

9. Importing

    Import .eps files as a Project media

10. Video Event Mask

     The ability to import files into .png and .eps in the mask window as well as letters and symbols which can be used as mask.

11. Create Mask with brush

    Is it not possible to integrate in Vegas Pro to make a mask also via a brush where the size, opacity and softness are adjustable? This would give Vegas Pro so many more possibilities.

    As a result, the mask function could also be to masking parts (1) and can used be used a bit as a paint tool (2) and gives us many more possibilities to apply an smooth effect to video's with the mask tool!

12. Add New Empty Event button

    In the Customize Timeline Toolbar, add button "New Empty Event". The "New Empty Event" button is used in all kinds of applications, whether as an aid such as an intermediate piece or as a helping marker, or in plugins for creating a text animation or a complete composition in a separate video editor.

13. I found some improvements to be made in ProType Titler :

    - Highlight the ProType Titler track when selecting a text in the  preview

    - Synchronize the ProType Titler cursor positions on the Vegas Pro main timeline

    - Quantize to Frames (snap cursor to frame positions)

    - Select, Copy and Paste the ProType Titler keyframes

    - The ability to mutually change the position of the ProType Titler tracks

    - Change an element anchor point by entering its positions manually separately from its offset position and have the ability to animate the anchor point

    - The ability to animate a path

    - Include presets for the path as circle, square, rectangle, triangle, star , ...

    - Improvement the path bezier handles (move handles separately to create sharp corners easier)

    - Rotate characters, words, lines and a whole text around his x-axis and his y-axis

14. Snapping to Mask grid

    When creating a mask, I can't use the snapping points when the magnet is clicked on!

First the snapping points are hidden by my image! Only the points outside my mask screen are visible!

    Wouldn't it be better to make the snap points visible within the mask screen?

    Second I have to draw a random mask outside the mask screen, then I must move point by point from the random mask to the snapping points, which are now attracted to the snapping points (magnet is clicked on). So I can make a specific mask shape.

    Isn't it possible to immediately create a mask attracted to the snapping points?

15. Change the scaling midpoint

    It is not possible to provide in a next version to randomly change the scaling midpoint in Pan/Crop, as happens with the rotation midpoint?

16. More dockable windows

    Is It not possible to provide in a next version more than 4 remembered dockable windows as in previous versions?

17. Sub-compositions

    I use many small .veg projects that I insert into my timeline as a nested project in my main project.

    This can include anything from a simple collection of different objects or to create a complete animation with text and images.

    I do this to work more easily and to keep my main project in the timeline clear.

    Wouldn't it be possible to create a sub-composition-event in a main project without creating a new .veg file (nested project)?

    For example: In the timeline > right click > From the menu Insert New sub-composition-event >  If necessary, adjust the length of this sub-composition-event as with other video-events > Double click on this sub-composition-event to open a completely new timeline and create a new composition with his own tracks with video's, text, audio etc > Closes when you're done and go back to the main project where you only see the sub-composition-event that can be adapted as with the other video-events and where back effects can be added.

    The whole project together with the various sub-compositions are written off in the same project.veg file.

18. Organize the Project Media List

    I try to sort my entire list of used images, different categories of videos, sounds, texts, graphic elements and so on, which I use in a project.

    In Vegas pro there are a lot of ways to do this.

    But I'm looking for a way where I can divide an entire list (1) of items into different sub-folders (2), and once they've been dragged into a particular sub-folder (2) which I made and gave a name , then they must disappear from the entire list (1) with items.

    It's kind of a move of items. If all items are divided into sub-folders (2), the entire list (1) must be empty.

    And If I still use new media in this project, all these items will automatically appear again in the entire list (1), I     can immediately see these in the entire list (1) and can quickly place it in a particular sub-folder (2).

    A simple solution for this : If I could have added several custom sub-folders in the Project Media > Media By Type, I could have placed all my media in a specific sub-folder. Now only Audio, Video and Stills sub-folders are available.

19. Copy/Paste media from Windows File Explorer

    I would be good if we could copy files from a Windows File Explorer immediately and fit into the Vegas Pro timeline.

    Drag and drop from Windows File Explorer work well. However, to have fewer different windows over each other, copy/paste a media file from Windows File Explorer and past it in the timeline would make this task sometimes easier.

20. Mute/Unmute audio button in Trimmer

    Sometimes sounds in movies become annoying after repeatedly playing a movie to find the right part. Therefore, an on/off button is useful to have at hand.

...always hope, wouldn't you say?

Greeting Amivideotek