please make muted events (video and audio) more distinguishable.

Mindmatter wrote on 7/16/2022, 5:14 AM

Hi all
this has been a personal gripe for a really long time. In Vegas, muted events are barely visually different from unmuted ones, which for me regularly means having to expand their sizes to see that slight color change and confirm they're on or off.
Now take a look at how cubase displays muted events: They are just plain grey, and I mean really grey. Dead. Active no more. You see it instantly.

Now here's Vegas: Guess which ones are muted...?

So to me and maybe others, this would be a huge aid!
Which brings me to a couple of other wishes:

Please let us color events, like you see in Cubase, where tracks can give their color to events by default, but you can recolor each single event. It would make life so much easier if you have to handle a huge number of clips and events in a project and want to group or catalogue them into certain different categories.
Then, please make audio tracks noticeably different from video tracks in the left track column, and possibly give the whole track its color, not just the far left small square? Again, see Cubase. It would make much more visual sense.

Oh, and can we please have colored icons back, at least as an option? I don't care at all if it " looks too 80s" or whatever. It's just so much easier to work with the usual, instantly recognizable colored icons.

Thanks!

Comments

Yelandkeil wrote on 7/16/2022, 6:58 AM

My habit is "Reverse Event Background Color", so it's not a problem for me.

Mindmatter wrote on 7/16/2022, 7:07 AM

for audio yes, but not for the video events...
I just changed the title to include that.

Yelandkeil wrote on 7/16/2022, 7:55 AM

In the practice it doesn't matter, you will see a lock if zoomed properly.
And which color do you want for the mute as all tracks have variable colors?

Mindmatter wrote on 7/17/2022, 3:59 AM

I don't think you read, saw the examples or understood my post at all. And a lock has got nothing to do with a mute.

Yelandkeil wrote on 7/17/2022, 6:35 AM

My bad!

I really mixed up these 2.

relaxvideo wrote on 7/17/2022, 7:57 AM

+1 for Mindmatter!

frmax wrote on 7/17/2022, 4:36 PM

Good idea;

I like simple and intuitive optical helps; maybe bluring that muted lines could be an option.

As in medical things: "Good method?" Answer: SSS (safe-simple-short)

Mindmatter wrote on 11/25/2022, 4:17 AM

Working with a post multicam edit with (not clearly visibly) muted events all over the place, I really missed this feature again.
Magix would that be possible, please please?

Tencryn wrote on 2/17/2023, 8:47 AM

I recently upgraded from Vegas 15 to Vegas 20, there's a huge difference in how events look and muted events are definitely hard to distinguish when the segments are too small for the event name to be visible.

Audio tracks will darken when muted, making them easy to distinguish from unmuted but video tracks do not which means they're impossible to distinguish when the labels and buttons are not visible on the event. I believe video tracks should also darken when muted.

My suggestion is to have some display settings that adjust how muted video / audio events appear individually. This could include whether or not they darken, and by how much they do darken as a percentage. The former shouldn't affect the label / buttons.

Mindmatter wrote on 7/10/2024, 6:39 AM

THIS...again...please please please look into it Magix. It's a real showstopper when working with severy tracks with muted events, like post multicam.