PLEASE give us coloured markers!!!

PeterWright wrote on 10/1/2018, 12:42 AM

This is something I remember requesting many years ago, and thought then, as I still do, that I cannot think of another such simple feature that would be so extremely useful.
As well as video I do a lot of musical arranging, and to be able to designate different coloured Markers for different jobs, to enable quick and easy recognition of a particular place would be such a help.
I am no programmer, but somewhere there must be something telling the Markers to be "rust brown", or whatever the present colour is called.
Surely a variable could be introduced so that we can make it a different colour - even if we only have the same choice that we currently do for Audio Waveforms, that would be great.

I cannot believe that I'm the only user who would like this.

Please ?

Comments

cris wrote on 10/1/2018, 5:20 AM

That would indeed be a great feature. Default to a color, but right-click option to change to another for example.

3POINT wrote on 10/1/2018, 3:12 PM

You're aware that you can name each marker/region?

PeterWright wrote on 10/1/2018, 7:36 PM

Yes thanks 3POINT, I am aware of that ( I've been using Vegas most days since Version 3.0. )

I’ll try and give a few examples of how different coloured Markers might be used.

Video

I might want to mark places in a play where particular characters speak or do something, as I want to later do some work on that video or audio – different colour for each character.

I might want to mark the beginnings of scenes, or places where voice over needs adding, places where sound FX is needed etc – again, different colours for different jobs would make this easier.

Audio

When I am working on music arrangements I sometimes use markers to show the beginnings of each verse, each line, each chorus, each bridge, instrumentals etc – different colours for each would help go straight to that part.

... and my biggest reason for requesting this is – on occasions I may mark the beginning of each bar of a particular passage, then each beat within that bar.   This can mean I have maybe forty-eight markers within 36 seconds.   When they’re all the same colour, which are the bar markers?

I could go on – there are countless other uses for markers.

We can right click on Audio Track headers and choose from eight track display colours. Something similar would be very welcome.

EricLNZ wrote on 10/1/2018, 10:04 PM

I don't use Markers extensively but can appreciate this is a good suggestion.

Former user wrote on 10/1/2018, 10:09 PM

Interesting suggestion from a few years ago.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/different-colored-master-markers--101163/

PeterWright wrote on 10/1/2018, 10:35 PM

david-tu yes interesting. I may be missing something, but I couldn't make most of those suggestions work, as below:
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Orange marker: Hit M - Yes, as always
Pink marker: Shift + N - Couldn't do this
Red marker: Hit N  - Couldn't do this
Green markers: Hit R - This creates a Region, as always
Blue marker: Hit C - Couldn't do this

Note: for the red and pink markers an audio track must be selected. 
They are CD track markers.
Insert-> audio CD track.
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I did check the Help files before posting, and could not find anything about Coloured Markers

EricLNZ wrote on 10/1/2018, 11:07 PM

Same here Peter except N brings up Track Markers and C brings up the "Command" box. I hadn't come across Track Markers before but from the Help file they are for Audio CDs.

Presumably the keys only work with Vegas Pro.

PeterWright wrote on 10/1/2018, 11:25 PM

Thanks Eric - yes I hadn't thought of using CD Track Markers, so this will sort of work as a "clunky" workaround.