V7 - Love 'em SNAP-to Colour Bars!

Grazie wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:36 AM

Multiple Tracks and you can;t find the back-end/front-end of a piece of Media? These Snap-To vertical bars a greeeet! Just used 'em to ensure lined up media.

AND the same for Loop region.

Comments

TorS wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:42 AM

Two good words: snaps and bars. Grazie dear, you shouldn't be in the house playing now, you should be out drinking, watching silly sods smoke themselves to death.

I am still using Vegas 5, but this time I am thinking of upgrading. Certainly if I can get coloured schnapps from the bar.
Tor

Wolfgang S. wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:53 AM

Coloured Schnapps from the bar - has never been an issue in good old Europe!
:)

John_Cline wrote on 9/13/2006, 9:54 AM

The "Snap-to" bars, the improved copy-trim function and being able to place the widows at the top of the main window were enough to make me happy, all the other improvements are icing on the cake. As far as I'm concerned, the Madison team has, once again, taken a already-great editor and made it even better. The $135 I paid for this upgrade was worth every penny, heck, I might have even paid up to $137.50!.

John

GlennChan wrote on 9/13/2006, 4:44 PM

what's copy-trim?

vicmilt wrote on 9/13/2006, 5:05 PM

Coyly she peeked around the beaded, cinnamon scented curtain. "Shhhh...."
"You're not my True Love", he yelled.
She smiled - quiet as a field of daisies on Monday morning - soft -suggestive.
"I don't WANT to play!"
We could see her from afar, but was she beautiful... or was it simply the mist rising from the moors?
"I like it here - I like the old people, the old ways"
Her big eyes stared at us, revealing nothing.
"Go Away, I don't want to play with you"
Closer she came... closer, closer.
"I Won't! I'm going to my Other Friends House to play"
And then she smiled... just a little...
and now the affair begins.

clearvu wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:20 PM

Upgrade for $135??? Where was Vegas + DVDA found at that price?

NickHope wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:32 PM

I too love the snapping enhancements. No more double clicking of events in the timeline to get a selection edge to snap to. But a couple of times yesterday I got a snap-to bar and I couldn't work out what it was. It certainly wasn't the edge of another event and my grid snapping is off.

Chanimal wrote on 9/13/2006, 8:36 PM

Sweet Vic.

Former user wrote on 9/13/2006, 11:31 PM

Agreed...the snap-to bars are a godsend. So many of my projects are short, but have lots of wee cuts in them. It was a huge pain in the but to have to click on the end of a clip, and then draaag the other clip over and then draaag the fade bars to match audio cues or whatever.

Has anyone tried the RAM preview? Holey moley...I noticed a huge improvement. Again, short projects, but I can render them out to RAM lickety split...and being able to print to tape without audio renders (I have a 3.7GHz P4 with 4GB of RAM) is schweeet.

Paul_Holmes wrote on 9/13/2006, 11:42 PM

Been working on a project in V7 and just noticed the snapping color bars. Yah, they're cool. It's all the little things like that, small but effective improvements that always make the upgrade worthwhile.

I think my favorite thing, however, is the infinitely resizable preview window. Also, I think I'm previewing my Huffy avis at close to project frame rate in 7 whereas in 6 I think I was getting more like 18 frames per second, not 22 to 24 like I'm getting now (same computer). I won't swear to that yet. In fact I should do a quick test and then edit this to confirm it.

(Edit) Yep. I did a test and started a new post about it. About 25% faster previewing to the external monitor.