Simple but important feature for next version

Ben1000 wrote on 1/23/2006, 10:53 PM
Here's a little suggestion that would be a cinch to add and would remove a WHOLE lot of annoyances for me. Maybe you too?

It has to do with using a dual screen setup.

It would be great if Vegas didn't 'center' your cursor in the timeline when zoom changes are made, but rather, would let you choose the option of center or left 1/4 or right 1/4 of the screen. For dual-screen folks like me, it's great having a long timeline, but it's a pain having the cursor jump RIGHT to when your screen splits when you zoom.

This 'feature' would make the cursor jump to the middle of one screen or the other instead. It could also reposition the 'rendering' progress box so it wasn't 'between' my monitors...

Unless this is already a feature and I don't know about it, sure would be nice to have it in 6d or 7 :-)

Best,

Ben

Comments

Grazie wrote on 1/24/2006, 12:18 AM

"For dual-screen folks like me, it's great having a long timeline, but it's a pain having the cursor jump RIGHT to when your screen splits when you zoom."

I can't replicate your missing Cursor. I use Zoom options all the time, and either the Cursor is at the beginning of the Zoom selection or flips to either side of the central position. I can't repro this. Give me your exact procedure and I'll try and repro - yeah?

The Render Box! Oh yes .. some type of dual screen intelligence on this one would be terrific. And yes, this has been mentioned more than once ;-)

Grazie
Chienworks wrote on 1/24/2006, 3:43 AM
Or simply allowing the rendering dialog box to be dragged would be a very nice improvement.
DJPadre wrote on 1/24/2006, 5:00 AM
considering that the only way to se ewhere your rendering is up to and how fast its rendering per frame is ONLY visible withthe video preview open, id like to see a "rendering frame 1234 of 6798 frames"
apparently vegas renders faster when video preview is off???
if we cna turn it off to save resources for teh render id like to do that, but id also like to know what frames im up to.. i like seeing the numbers climb... lol
logiquem wrote on 1/24/2006, 1:28 PM
I second for actual frame rendering display.

I would also like to see informations about the rendering settings (size, codec, file format, rendered file path, etc.) This is really a must for a so called pro soft. IMHO.
busterkeaton wrote on 1/24/2006, 1:56 PM
For dual screen I have my left screen be the timeline and the trimmer at teh bottom. For my right screen, I have my preview window, mixer, video scopes, a dock with transition, effects, generated media and another dock with explorer and project media.

All the stuff on the right screen is dragged out of the main vegas window, so the rendering box and other messages appear in the middle of my left screen
Quryous wrote on 1/24/2006, 2:39 PM
Send the suggestion to /Support/Product Suggestions. It is a good one and may get missed here if you don't post it there.