Okay, so this isn’t your typical post. But following a problem that I was having, specific to AMD drivers I believe, I have had to somewhat change the way I edit. As can be seen on my profile on here, I have a tech related YouTube channel that is aptly named - Tech Wired Geek -. I often would use Track Motion to assist me in animating, with keyframes, certain elements in my VEGAS Pro projects.
However, due to the problem I was having with Track Motion when enabling shadows that is detailed here. I have had to go about animating, with keyframes, any elements with the Picture-In-Picture plugin. Honestly, it has been an interesting experience using it, not necessarily bad, just different.
One of the features of VEGAS Pro 20 (which, IIRC, was introduced back in VEGAS Pro 18 or 19) has become extremely helpful in placing objects quite precisely (yes, I like precision, if you didn’t already know) is the ability to zoom in with the preview window. I don’t know much you can zoom in, but I have seen it reach a zoom percentage of over 1,000% which is awesome and very helpful for placing and sizing things accurately.
The only thing that I wish I could do is use my keyboard’s arrow keys, like I can on some of my image editors, to move things ever so slightly in any direction with the Picture-In-Picture plugin whilst my mouse pointer is on the preview window to move object elements. Nevertheless, I managed to somehow get around that problem.
One other thing that would be helpful, would be the ability to horizontally scroll the timeline with the horizontal scroll wheel on my Logitech MX Master 2S mouse. I can do this in Microsoft PowerPoint (when creating my graphics) and in some of my image editors, and, I believe, even some other NLE video editors allow horizontal scrolling with a mouse, but not VEGAS Pro (unless I’m missing something).
Those couple of things aside, I have been really enjoying creating my new YouTube intro in VEGAS Pro. My new intro is styled after the common material design theme that is seen on various media presentations these days. I also, for the first time, created my first mask with Event Pan/Crop and have discovered many other interesting and awesome features with just the Event Pan/Crop tool. In fact, one of the options, just by changing them, has enabled me to use textured backgrounds or images in my intro (without masking) which has opened up a lot of possibilities when editing and key-framing various elements, even lower thirds.
I just wanted to write this post to show how I am using VEGAS Pro, changes I’d like to see, and finally, that I’m quite thankful to MAGIX and the VEGAS Creative software team in how much they have continued to develop VEGAS Pro to make it increasingly better with every update and new version. Because there are things that I couldn’t do with previous versions of VEGAS Pro that I can do now with VEGAS Pro 20. Yes, it’s not perfect. No software is. But I still appreciate how creative you can be with the software. It’s been awesome!
MH7