This past week, I just had my first long "session" with Vegas 5. In the course of the evening, I ran into several bugs:
1) When you remove the last piece of media from a track, the track motion glow (and probably shadow, but I didn't check) gets reset to the default value. For instance, I had a light green glow applied to several tracks, and I was moving clips back and forth between the tracks, often leaving a track empty. Whenever that happened, the glow reverted to bright red (the default).
2) When you have a complex composition that takes a while to render a frame, and included in that composition is a Text Generator that you're editing, the UI hangs while the frame is being composed, so you can't see what you're typing. Very frustrating, it should really be done on a separate thread.
3) Colour picker: When you move the arrow to the right of the colour bar on the bottom right, the alpha is reset. Frustrating! I had set the opacity, I just wanted to keep readjusting to a different level of gray, and the opacity kept going back to 100%!!
4) When you undo while editing a keyframe, it resets the scale of the keyframe timeline... so if I've zoomed in to adjust some carefully placed keyframes, then undo - bam! I'm zoomed all the way back out. Very disruptive to workflow.
5) Vegas crashed while I was undoing a delete media operation. Can't repro it though...
6) The + button to add a keyframe does not work unless you a *really* zoomed in so that the keyframe is a good distance away from where your cursor is. Seems like if you can set the cursor position to a certain spot, you should always be able to add a keyframe with '+'. It's been this way ever since Vegas 3 though.
Other bugs I encountered that appear to have been fixed when I installed 5.0b:
- Alt-tabbing to another window on the desktop did not work when I was editing track motion.
- I had two clips abutting each other, and a track motion keyframe on the last frame of the first clip, and another one of the first frame of the next clip. However, Track Motion was not applied *at all* on the first frame of the second clip. So there was one frame where the video suddenly jumped back to default track motion (e.g. 100% size, no x/y offsets). Since installed 5.0b I couldn't repro, although maybe there was something more to the repro steps that I am missing.
Anyway, these were the 7 issues I ran into over the course of a few hours, which made for some frustrating editing. It seems things went much more smoothly back in Vegas 3. I remember being impressed at what a stable program it was, and how the workflow was so smooth. Vegas 4 seemed to regress and bit, and Vegas 5 even more - I keep finding that keyboard focus is never where it should be, and I have to click on things a lot more, interrupting workflow - maybe it's just my imagination, I dunno.
1) When you remove the last piece of media from a track, the track motion glow (and probably shadow, but I didn't check) gets reset to the default value. For instance, I had a light green glow applied to several tracks, and I was moving clips back and forth between the tracks, often leaving a track empty. Whenever that happened, the glow reverted to bright red (the default).
2) When you have a complex composition that takes a while to render a frame, and included in that composition is a Text Generator that you're editing, the UI hangs while the frame is being composed, so you can't see what you're typing. Very frustrating, it should really be done on a separate thread.
3) Colour picker: When you move the arrow to the right of the colour bar on the bottom right, the alpha is reset. Frustrating! I had set the opacity, I just wanted to keep readjusting to a different level of gray, and the opacity kept going back to 100%!!
4) When you undo while editing a keyframe, it resets the scale of the keyframe timeline... so if I've zoomed in to adjust some carefully placed keyframes, then undo - bam! I'm zoomed all the way back out. Very disruptive to workflow.
5) Vegas crashed while I was undoing a delete media operation. Can't repro it though...
6) The + button to add a keyframe does not work unless you a *really* zoomed in so that the keyframe is a good distance away from where your cursor is. Seems like if you can set the cursor position to a certain spot, you should always be able to add a keyframe with '+'. It's been this way ever since Vegas 3 though.
Other bugs I encountered that appear to have been fixed when I installed 5.0b:
- Alt-tabbing to another window on the desktop did not work when I was editing track motion.
- I had two clips abutting each other, and a track motion keyframe on the last frame of the first clip, and another one of the first frame of the next clip. However, Track Motion was not applied *at all* on the first frame of the second clip. So there was one frame where the video suddenly jumped back to default track motion (e.g. 100% size, no x/y offsets). Since installed 5.0b I couldn't repro, although maybe there was something more to the repro steps that I am missing.
Anyway, these were the 7 issues I ran into over the course of a few hours, which made for some frustrating editing. It seems things went much more smoothly back in Vegas 3. I remember being impressed at what a stable program it was, and how the workflow was so smooth. Vegas 4 seemed to regress and bit, and Vegas 5 even more - I keep finding that keyboard focus is never where it should be, and I have to click on things a lot more, interrupting workflow - maybe it's just my imagination, I dunno.