Track Motion Presets?

AndyMac wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:04 AM
Am I missing something fundamental, or is it the case that Track Motion Presets are no longer available?
A quick look through the New Features PDF reveals no mention of them...I dearly hope they haven't been expunged - I use them all the time; invaluable for multi-cam editing.
Also, if I screw up, how do I get back to square one and select the 'default' option?

Please calm my fevered brow and tell me I'm just being a dolt and've missed an option in 'Preferences' or something.

Oh, and congrats to the team, btw.

Cheers,

Andy

Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:24 AM
Right Click on the 3D views gets you Restore: View; Box; Rotation; Center. Don't see the 4:3 or Default or the other Presets OR the option to Save Presets . . HOW did you get this "ommission" from the stuff you read .. ?. Interesting .. wish I was that clever . .!

Grazie
Cheesehole wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:29 AM
I believe this has been registered by Sony as a bug - it should be back in the next update. The thread is buried (lost?) in the past couple days worth of posts!
AndyMac wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:42 AM
"HOW did you get this "ommission" from the stuff you read .. ?. Interesting .. wish I was that clever . .!"

Now you got me worried, Grazie... is that a healthy dose of well-deserved sarcasm or are the Preset options really gone?
First thing I tried in v5 was recreating an existing multi-camera project - I've set up TM presets for 'TopLeft Quadrant; TopRight, etc.) so I can see all the cameras simultaneously and mark swap points. Couldn't see TM presets, so I skimmed through the first bit of the PDF about Track Motion.
I may well have missed something bleedin' obvious, though ;-)

Andy
Grazie wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:53 AM
Sarcasm - MOI!?!?! ! - More leg pulling, than anything else . . . However I was truly, deeply, honestly interested how you worked out an ommission by it not being included. After all, it doesn't talk about the track headers . . .but they are there! - Well, I suppose they would be . . but you get my drift - yeah? . .Now then, the presets for Track Motion aint there . . and yes, I would agree with you, this surley would/has to come back . .. please Sony! .. .more to the point, why take them out?! - On this basis I quickly went to the FXs and confirmed that the plugin presets CAN be saved - - phew .. . .

Best regards,

Grazie

AndyMac wrote on 4/22/2004, 11:04 AM
Ah, but I only figured it was omitted by looking for it in the first place ;-)

Thanks Cheesehole - found it lurking back at post number 295 (wow - post frenzy or what!)...
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"Subject: RE: Vegas 5 track motion question..
Posted by: SonyIMC (Ignore This User)
Date: 4/19/2004 6:47:24 AM

We goofed!

This should be coming back in an update.

Thanks

Ivan Calderon
Vegas SQA Lead"
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So there you have it - it's a known issue.
Thank gawd for that - would've been stuffed without it.
Actually, that's a complete overstatement... funny how you get so attached to the way you end up working and forget there's other ways to flog the moggie ;-)
Let's just say it would have been sorely missed!

Cheers,

Andy
Rosebud wrote on 6/22/2004, 2:26 PM
Just downloaded Vegas5.0b update and Track Motion Presets stay no available :(((
jeremyk wrote on 6/22/2004, 2:47 PM
That's true. :-(

But on the bright side, at least with 5.0b you can now nudge the selection in track motion and event pan/crop. That's what I missed most of all.
taliesin wrote on 6/22/2004, 2:59 PM
Mmh, 5.0b was just released. But seems like they didn't fix that TrackMotion issue.

Marco
Ron Lucas wrote on 7/5/2004, 6:36 PM
Sony, please bring this feature back.

Thank you.