A very good suggestion. But not just for OFX but also for marking the beat points for a video event change. I've recently had to manually code markers at the beat points - using highlighting of the waveform beat as a guide on the audio track - in order to identify the in/out points for video events. Every bass/drum beat (maybe 2 seconds apart) is a cue to cut from one video event to another. The only issue has been to make sure that the unquantized audio event is positioned to match to the video quantization at the point of the first cut and that the following beat points are equal to or very close to video quantization frame edges - which fortunately they were.

But not just for OFX but also for marking the beat points for a video event change.

A good addition.

For what I do, just marking beat points would be helpful to me and an interesting addition as Dexcon has pointed out.  
Otherwise, I would be with Reyfox that the developers should work on smooth timeline previews and must-haves first.

@Dexcon With a free tool like "BPM Analyzer" you can easily detect the BeatsPerMinute (or Beatpoints) of your music event and set in Vegas projectsettings bpm and measure (ruler menu) accordingly, in options menu you can enable "snap to grid" and set Grid spacing to "measures". With this you can easily edit your video events to the beat of the music.

Alternatively, you can use also Vegasaur's Beat Detector to generate markers at the beat.

Alternatively, you can use also Vegasaur's Beat Detector to generate markers at the beat.

And that is what I use!

@Dexcon @walter-i. @Reyfox

As @3POINT mentioned, Vegasaur has a tool called Beat Detector that creates markers on the beats of the music. In conjunction with other Vegasaur tools it is possible to greatly speed up editing. I, for example, use it a lot when I need to be alternating between several cameras in the rhythm of the beat. But there are countless other possibilities for using this feature. I made a small video showing one of the possibilities of use.

@lan-mLMC I'll check with the Vegasaur developer if it's possible to adapt this feature at the video FX level. I can't promise anything, because in the last time I talked to the Vegasaur developer, he informed me that he is on a new job and consequently has no time to work on Vegasaur, but if he ever return to work on Vegasaur, your suggestion is a good feature addition.

@joelsonforte.br

You are the leading Vegasaur expert! Thank you for sharing your insights on how to use Vegasaur.
There have already been several good instructional videos from you on these aspects in our forum, I would like to see more of them, although this is only a hope and not a request.

@joelsonforte.br Hi Joelson, I do know Vegasaur beat detector. I'm using it.

But what Vegasaur detects are only BPM's beats.

And what I mean that Vegas beat reactor can do are much more subtle beats ( different from BPM's beats ). Here is a demo ( 00:00-00:07 ) :

@3POINT @joelsonforte.br  ... Thank you for the advice about Vegasaur - I just wasn't aware that the beat detector was there. Yes, that does what I was looking for though I had to delete 3 intervening beat markers between all of the principal drum beats which are about 2.5 seconds apart - but that didn't take long at all.

@3POINT @joelsonforte.br  ... Thank you for the advice about Vegasaur - I just wasn't aware that the beat detector was there. Yes, that does what I was looking for though I had to delete 3 intervening beat markers between all of the principal drum beats which are about 2.5 seconds apart - but that didn't take long at all.

I had tried the beat detector in Vegasaur some time ago, and spent a lot of time deleting the excess markers - so I didn't use it again. It may also have been an unfortunate choice of music with not enough distinct rhythms.

I will try it again after the great tutorial by @joelsonforte.br - thanks for that!

I had tried the beat detector in Vegasaur some time ago, and spent a lot of time deleting the excess markers - so I didn't use it again. It may also have been an unfortunate choice of music with not enough distinct rhythms.

You can easily change the number of markers generated from every beat to, for example, every 8 beats.

There are third-party OFX made to mimic virtually every special effect available on iPhones and TikTok. New ones are being introduced all the time. I call it the "Bling Factor."

The problem with cluttering up the software with native special fX is that it diverts coding talent, must be constantly under development to keep up with the latest social media fads, and temporary sales appeal goes away the minute some new gimmick is introduced.

Some hopeless types actually still need the "Pro" in Vegas: I could still use V14 for 90% of my production work, which has dwindled. I like to play with V20; it has some neat stuff. Depends on whether I'm wearing my Producer or my Hobbyist hat.

I remember an edit software I was using and they brought out 3D. Everyone remembers that, yes?!?

I only know of one person that actually shot in 3D and edited the videos for 3D playback. But it was the "new" thing and you had to have it on the software box.

And yes, there were other, more pressing issues that should have been addressed instead of 3D.