Vegas Needs this feature

busterkeaton wrote on 6/4/2006, 12:29 AM
I have posted this before and have sent it to Sony, but I want repeat it.

I was reminded again while watching some presentations at NAB about how useful it would be. Jeffrey Fisher was doing an audio demonstration and showing folks how many tracks he uses to create a compelling soundtrack. A short 30 sec spot might have 25-30 tracks going on, background noise might be 8 tracks, sound effects might be 5, dialog 4, etc. He was showing how the audio worked when you just played the background noise or just the effects and he would have to mute some tracks and solo others continuously as he did his demo.

Vegas needs a SOLO ALL/SOLO NONE feature and a MUTE ALL/MUTE NONE feature.
It seems like it would be an easy implementation to. The interface of it, could just be right clicking the MUTE or SOLO buttons would bring up a menu and choices. I bet this feature would get used all the time by Vegas users.

Comments

farss wrote on 6/4/2006, 1:41 AM
This is so easy to do now.
Assign track groups to busses and mute the relevant buses, in fact for complex project for me buses are the only way to work.
Bob.
Marco. wrote on 6/4/2006, 1:51 AM
Another way: Select the desired tracks and click Mute on one of them: It mutes all selected tracks at once. Same works with the solo function.

Marco
busterkeaton wrote on 6/4/2006, 2:19 AM
Yes, but that's just for the specific example. I working on project with about 20 tracks of video and lots of picture in pictures, lots of movement, lots of tracks sliding underneath one another. To check if I have my video lined up correctly, I'm constantly soloing and muting.

Now I know that you can select several tracks and then solo or mute them, but what if you don't know what tracks you have soloed and which you have muted, and you don't want to look to find them. Especially when you have your track size minimized, this becomes a timesaver AND it keeps you in the flow and you don't have to scroll your window and and down. You can do a control A and select all, but I don't think it's as efficient and if you don't deselect them, you could end up doing something to affect all tracks.

Perhaps the menu choices should include Mute all Audio and Mute All Video too.

It would also come in handy right before a render, to make sure you haven't left a single track muted that you didn't want to.
ibliss wrote on 6/4/2006, 2:40 AM
Global audio/video mute switches exist in Vegas 6 in the options menu, and you can assign them to the toolbar if you want.
busterkeaton wrote on 6/4/2006, 3:04 AM
Where?
ibliss wrote on 6/4/2006, 3:06 AM
umm... in the options menu...
busterkeaton wrote on 6/4/2006, 3:14 AM
Sweet. Found them, and added them to my toolbar. Thanks.

However since Solo and Mute work separately, I still would like to see that.
ibliss wrote on 6/4/2006, 3:28 AM
I don't know if this will help, but if you Ctrl-click the a tracks' solo button, then click it again this will effectively clear all solo'd tracks (it forces the solo'ing of ONLY the one track, and the second click will un-solo that track so that you are hearing all tracks again).