Vegas 5 wishlist.

Jessariah67 wrote on 10/18/2003, 12:14 AM

Mark Williams (mark2929) gave the following wishlist for Vegas 5 in a recent post:

1)Rotoscoping

2)better keying

3) Freshen up the interface with splashes of color.

4)Film look tools.

5)The Titles could do with improvement

6)perhaps some paint tools

7) cloning

Personally, I think #3 is a "who cares" -- give me a Vegas in "greyscale" any day over a "colorful" Premiere -- but I think it might be interesting so see what others are thinking. I'd love to see a MUCH better text engine in VV5. As for most of the rest of the list, I think it might be time for someone (Sony?) to develop a plugin pack that acts as a lite version of AE or Boris -- for those of us who'd like to do some painting, keying, elaborate text movement, etc., but don't need all the "bells & whistles" (along with the 4-figure price tag) of the SFX apps that are currently out there.

What do you all think?

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mark2929 wrote on 10/19/2003, 4:03 PM

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StormMarc wrote on 10/19/2003, 4:30 PM

Ditto on the Photoshop layer composition support and the nested timelines.

I'd also like to see the trim mode sreen at proper aspect instead of two stretched clips next to each other (or at least the option for it).

It would also be nice to have some transition length feedback when sliding clips over each other. (preferably below timeline in right corner or in edit details window)

I like how Avid lets you view three adjacent shots in color correction mode that would be nice. It would also be nice to be able to raise the intensity on the Waveform as it's hard to read sometimes when setting black levels. Canopus Wavform allows for this.

Selectable/saveable workspaces and programable shortcuts

And of course optional hardware support for those of us who like to tweak alot.

Anyone have an idea when the next update is expected?

Marc

DGrob wrote on 10/19/2003, 7:08 PM

I'd like to be able to drop back an options-defined bump in Batch Capture. One-key or one click - bang, I'm back 29 frames, or whatever I select in Preferences. I spend more time than I should in batch capture set-ups. DGrob

MJhig wrote on 10/19/2003, 7:25 PM

Video speaking, a keyboard shortcut to move to the next event's Pan/Crop unless it's there and I missed it.

I'll keep my many Audio requests OUT of the video forum out of respect for the environment.

MJ

jrb wrote on 10/19/2003, 8:59 PM

just to re-iterate some of the points that have been made
- support for third party filters natively in vegas (after effects / photoshop)
- nested timelines/layers
- more intuitive pan/crop
- better re-timing / resampling of clips (see retimer by realvis)
- support for tracking, esp sub-pixel tracking

however i'd like to see the following improvements
- faster response/rendering when dealing with large projects with lots of layers. for example, i had a 25 layer project @ 20mins in length. Took 8 hours to render. Workflow productivity in such a scenario can be enhanced with nested timelines / layers
- faster photoshop / transparent media compositing
- faster mpeg2 encoding (at the moment it's a joke!)
- better cutting of clips with velocity envelopes
- better support for mpeg4 rendering
- video output zooming
- allow filter keyframing on individual filter components, instead on every component per keyframe.
- condense ui to make it less cluttery

no real bones with vv4, AE filter support would be one hell of a big win for vv5 though.

RichMacDonald wrote on 10/20/2003, 10:04 AM

>Video noise reduction filters for analog (e.g., VHS tape) sources. These should include chroma, temporal, and spatial. These filters exist for VirtualDub, but cannot be used in Vegas with Satish's PluginPac because they operate over more than one frame.

Not just analog. I have a lot of low-light DV and would like better ways to reduce noise. I assume the tools will work for both sources, but mention this just in case. Don't forget that noise reduction is a crucial tool for better rendering results because it allows the encoder to spend its bits elsewhere.

And something simple for those of us who neglect to clean our lens properly :-) A spot remover, cloning tool.

groovedude wrote on 10/20/2003, 2:02 PM

I'd like to be able to bring in a Acid DJ 3.0 project so that I could set up 5.1 within Vegas.

My work around now is to render out .wav tracks from Acid and then bring into Vegas.

mjroddy wrote on 10/20/2003, 2:55 PM

All these suggestions are great. But I'm suprised that noone but me seems bothered by having exclusive Track control over things like Volume Control, Opasity and a few other things. I mean, sure you can control the overall volume on a clip level, but if you want to raise and drop using nodes, you're on a track level. Same with Oversampling. I know that there's a decent "workaround" (though it's a feature, really) in which you can move clips and have the nodes tag along, but I'd, personally, rather have everything on the Clip level.
Oh yeah, have it so plug in's like Boris, etc will no need you to change the RAM Preview (urg. I'm not in front of Vegas, so I likely have the words wrong). Better go now... -mjr

scotty_dvc80 wrote on 10/20/2003, 2:57 PM

Flash Files
64 Bit
Film Tools comperable to Magic Bullet

EW wrote on 10/20/2003, 3:43 PM

Is there a setting that allows you to come back where you left off after closing the program? Right now, if I stop working in the middle of the timeline, when I re-open Vegas, the cursor is always at the beginning, not where I left it.

I'd like that option if it isn't already available somewhere.

DataMeister wrote on 10/20/2003, 3:57 PM

Some better restoration tools would be nice to remove noise and artifacts from VHS tape or unwanted graininess.

JBJones