[V6] Feature Request (small) - Default .sfk folder

jlafferty wrote on 4/28/2005, 4:40 PM
Hey...

I mentioned this in another thread, and posting this here because it might've gone by unnoticed by the powers....

Here I am having to change folder views to "list," then "arrange by type" to separate all the .avi files I want to move from one location to another without carrying the .sfk files with them. I'm assuming new .sfk's will be placed in the .avis' new parent directories once Vegas launches again. It's a minor annoyance, but it should be a pretty minor one to fix, as well (I hope).

Since Vegas 6 saves thumbnails to a set directory, is there a way all .sfk (and for that matter, .veg.bak) files could be sent to one, user-defined directory? This would nicely clean up a LOT of clutter lying around on many a hard drive. I know they're small files, but they can be a nuisance.

Ontop of this, it would be nice if you could have a checkbox in the "render as" window to "render .sfk copies in output directory." This way if you're rendering a new .avi to a portable drive or directory to be burned to a backup DVD, your .sfk files will be there, pre-rendered for the next Vegas launch, in addition to the default directory.

Thanks,

- jim

Comments

rmack350 wrote on 4/28/2005, 6:17 PM
Another NLE I've glanced at has a preference for "Media Locations". It might be nice in V7 to have a preferences setting like that to set the places you'd like to put all the little bits into. For instance, it'd probably be smart to allow creating .bak files in a separate place from the original veg file in case of disk failure.

'Course this also suggests to me that a different style of preferences window is needed. There are already too many tabs on it.

Otherwise, I wonder if it's possible to make sfk file into hidden files?

Rob Mack
norgeworks wrote on 4/28/2005, 6:19 PM
Good idea. When opening a "linked to" AAF in Vegas, it scans all my media in my OMFI Mediafiles folder and creates .sfk's. Causes havok on the next launch of Avid. It doesn't know what or why those files are there. Telling it to ignore them all didn't seem to go as smoothly as one would think.

Plus, this would be tiddier. =)