"3] VirginVegas! An option to start the day with a brand new Vegas, without going back to the "open last". Maybe Click+Alt"
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Grazie: do you mean just a new project when you open Vegas? Cause thats already in preferences: uncheck "automatically open last project on startup"

Some of my thoughts:
1. Better BorisFX plugin. Forums go back and forth over which company as at fault, but I'd just like to see it work!

2. I'd still love DVCProHD intergration with four seperate audio tracks and metadata, but I hear Raylight Ultra is around the corner-maybe it'll fix the last few things.

3. Better slow mo for progressive frames.

Other than that, everything is working well for me, even using DVCPro.

And OT:
Grazie, didn't you once suggest a SCS photoshop? The power of photoshop with the ease of Vegas would be great!

If you want your ideas to be heard you can contact via the suggestion box. SCS doesn't look here too often. I would like to see automated sub-title tracks created in Vegas (Dragon Speaking) which are manually editable and translation plugins (been around for years) for different languages. Mandatory hardware acceleration (selection menu for different cards) for precise playback no matter what is on the timeline. Playing back video from the timeline is a no-win proposition using software---as the software improves the demands quadruple so it can never catch up with HDV, then AVCHD, then 3D HDV, etc. Regain the rock solid stability of yesteryear. Create a Java application that will automaticcally install any pluggin created by man into Vegas. This would be the stuff that creates legends. Provide free 2 liter Pepsees and pizzas to the prgrammers to make them happy and content.
JJK

K? Not my suggestion - eh?

And yes I know the prefs. And mostly it IS this way. But on those few occasions, where I DON'T want it I get to watch my previous day's stuff drag themselves up in front of me. In fact, when I open a NEW instance, not a NEW Project, of Vegas I don't get the previously used come up? See?

How would Vegas create the inter-frames from Prog - for better slomo? Must be that this is already being done in other NLEs? Yes?

When I select a group of pictures in Project Media and right-click->Properties, it would be nice if my changes in that dialog (e.g. Pixel aspect ratio or Alpha channel settings) would apply to ALL of the pictures selected instead of just the first one selected. Right now I have to go one by one by one by one by one by one by one....

Always the same…

WORKFLOW:
-Overwrite mode
-Track lock button
-Improved Prerender File Management (A simple Ripple should NOT delete Prerender , Add a Video Track should NOT delete prerender… etc).
-A dual preview Window when Trimming Event (not a stretched window)
-Ability to choose attribute when pasting Event Attribute.
-Ability to choose Video & Audio tracks (not necessarily superimposed) when adding clip from Trimmer to Time Line.
-Video Preview when adding FX to clip in Project Media window.
-Add to the Event Pan/Crop window, the loop/move tools of the Track motion window
-Ability to display Markers on ALL Time Line (fx, generated media, pan/crop, track motion)
-Multiple Event Trimming (Like Liquid Edition or FCP)
-Ripple Edit actualy DONT work when “Start, End or Lenght” are changed in Edit Details Windows. Please fix this.
-Ability to enable draw Wave Form & Frame Event SEPARATELY (in preference).
-Add the “Sync Cursor” to generated media
-Add the internal option “Show Unquantized Event Start/End” to the View menu
-Add a “Goto” option in Edit Detail window for Events, Markers and Regions.


VIDEO :
-“Region” Filter (like Edius) to apply effect to only a zone of video (caution: this is not the same thing as Bezier Mask + Filter). Example: This filter allow to blur face with only one video track.
-Individual Photoshop Layer Import (like DVD-A)
-Keyframable compositing mode (Ability to switch to different compositing mode with an envelope)
-Render TIFF or TGA Image Sequence (script is too slow)


AUDIO:
-Audio Event FX (like CD-Architect, this is a very useful feature)
-Velocity envelope for audio.
-Pitch envelope
-Audio out to firewire

Ah, Grazie, I see what your saying...I guess I'm just used to leaving that option off-nine times out of ten it drives me crazy! The last five projects come up under file-it would be nice if you could "stick" a couple of projects there, like the start of XP (there's the most recent apps, then above the ones that are always there).

As for better slow mo-I don't know how they do it! I've had a chance to mess around with PPro CS3, and somehow they get better slow mo results. In Vegas there is usually some ghosting and/or wierd smearing thing (my tech description). In fact, the CS3 version does have great DVCProHD and BorisFx intergration.

Of course, I still perfere the Vegas interface though!

Nice list Gilles!

Esp . .
-Ability to display Markers on ALL Time Line (fx, generated media, pan/crop, track motion)

oh yes please!

Audio event FX please. and a way to pan/crop/scale/move video events in the video preview window

Have the VidCap file actually do something (like remember capture directories) for a change.
We've only been asking for this since Vegas was at version 3.0 :-(

Mike

1) Elegant crashing. Bad enough the thing crashes, would be nice if it cleaned up it's own mess. Vegas is the ONLY program in years that forces me to do a hard reset.

2) 10bit YUV.

3) DPX I/O

4) Decklink working.

5) Ability to specify where stuff goes in the project.

6) Fix VidCap. Amazing here we are in 2008 and Vegas still cannot capture DV correctly.

7) BWF Export.

8) Audio with TC.

And I haven't even thought hard about that list.

Bob.

oh right!

Audio Event FX
10bit YUV
DPX i/o (i could've used that today!)
faster image-sequence render

i'll 2nd those

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Interesting the differences in requests... that line between compositing and NLE blurs muchly; I'd generally prefer to keep the speed/stability Vegas currently has than fill it with "features" other apps (cough *After Effects*) will always do better.

Regarding crashes; I've experienced them VERY rarely in Vegas over the last 5 years; two (2) crashes resulting in a lock-up and lost data. There is no audio/video app I trust more to make a deadline... probably the reason I'd prefer not to have it wander too far from it's NLE roots. Losing stabiity would definitely lose me.

1.- Automatic increment on save option .... I'm so sick of having to manually type in the next number I want to save a .veg to.
(I usually have about 200-300 saves during a project - each with consecutive numbers manually appended)
2.- Vegas to have a memory of where it last saved a particular file type to .... If I save a .veg in one folder, then render a mpeg to another, when I go back to do another .veg save it goes to my mpeg directory.
3. 10 Bit YUV support
4. Decklink fully operating

Automatic increment on save option...

Are you running Vegas Pro 8?
Then grab Edward Troxel's free AutoSave Custom Command.

Mike

#1 wish for me is to fix HDV crash problems. Period.

Stability was the reason I switched to Vegas initially and despite how much I enjoy editing in Vegas I'm always nervous when working in HDV now. It is very frustrating to be up against a deadline and not know if Vegas is going to render all the way through for me or not.

I agree with michaelshive ... I want stability too ... very scary at the moment having to workaround all time to get chunks of my feature project rendered.

I haven't read every one of the items on the wishlists ... but I would like to see a timer option for the Auto Ripple (CTRL+L) button ...

I often forget to switch it off after one or two critical edits ... I would probably set mine to a 15 second countdown then the Auto Ripple would automatically switches itself off ... until it was called for again.

Mmm can't see it ever happening though.

Darren Powell
Sydney Australia

1. Load all available cores 100% when previewing.

2. Code for the Penryn SSE4 instructions.

Yeah I love Vegas I just want to love it faster.

Yeh, I would also like to be able to 'Remove from project and delete files' straight from the clip on the timeline instead of having to 'Select in Project Media list' ...

Just a thought ...

Darren Powell
Sydney Australia

Ha, I've been waiting for this opportunity to get this lot off my desktop :-) Apologies for some "like Premiere" comments but there are things that I still miss!

1. Tabbed projects. Multiple projects in tabs in same window.

2. Copy/cut/paste between projects in a single Vegas window.

3. Display of event length on the event itself during ripple editing (in the meantime thanks to Rosebud for the ShowEventLength custom command).

4. Improved H.264 encoding. Update MainConcept encoder. Vegas version is 2.0.1889 (2006/01/05) (current release is now up to 7.6 or later). Or improve Sony AVC codec.

5. Thumbnails in Explorer window

6. "Filmstrip" view of video files showing multiple frames within the file, like in Scenalyzer.

7. Direct FLV export

8. Direct animated GIF export

9. Direct Xvid export

10. Import FLV

11. Import Xvid (without changing fourcc)

12. Import mpeg elementary streams (.m2v)

11. Improved intelligence in locating offline media

12. Rewire support

13. Improved auto-save including variable increment and show whether auto-saved project or last manual save is more recent when project is reopened (in the meantime thanks to jetdv for excellent AutoSave custom command)

14. Auto-add video events to project media as they are rendered (like image snapshots are added).

15. A way to migrate window layouts between versions

16. Shortcuts to often-used directories in open/save/render etc. windows (like Reason has)

17. Fix support for program stream "HDV" files rendered in Womble

18. Put sfap0 files in a different folder/drive from the vegas project

19. I-frame markers in timeline and trimmer

20. Improved slow motion

21. Advanced deinterlacing and resizing options

22. High mp3 bitrates in DivX renders

23. Scrollable preview window (as per farss thread)

24. Ability to show separate audio plug-in windows (e.g. a VST master meter in a separate window from a track compressor)

25. Description of custom templates to update to what the custom template actually is, not what it was originally based on (very confusing if you're not familiar with Vegas' behaviour).

26. Quick render for a single event. i.e. "Render as" on an event's context menu, allowing the event to be rendered without selecting a timeline selection area and without muting events on other tracks.

27. Display tooltip of the file name when hovering over an event in the timeline (like Premiere)

28. Ability to quickly jump to instances of media from the media pool (from the media's context menu) (as now achieved with Rosebud's gotoevent custom command).

29. Improved MPEG2 encoding speed and quality (c.f. Cinemacraft Encoder Basic)

30. Full screen preview on a single display system like a laptop (Premiere 6 on Win98 had this)

31. Static preview thumnails in the video bus track of how the video will look like rendered.

32. Maintain pitch during audio scrubbing (like Premiere)

33. Audio scrubbing while spinning a Shuttle's inner jog wheel or dragging the cursor by the black line (not the pale blue thingy at the top of it).

Edit:

34. Improved capture program, particularly HDV, with flexible file naming options (like HDVSplit), better scene analysis, option to trim to full GOPs, and repair/reporting of corrupt clips.

My list is much shorter:

1/ Render pause.
2/ Make use of DirectSow instead of VFW.

The other stuff would be nice, but those two things are all I really need.

On the ripple edit icon in the on position---Have it blinking red and/or option in the options to blink or not blink.
JJK

Oh yeah,
In media manager, I'd love to be able to resolve lots of offline media at once.
For example, when you open a project, and you've moved a folder of media, vegas searches for, finds it, then tells you it found other missing media there.

Why can't MM do this?

And if it can-can someone please tell me how? I moved a bunch of footage off the main harddrive to a back up external and would like to tell MM where the 150 offline files are!

I had the same. Just used "Smart Search" found the lot. SS, is in the "Resolve Offline Media" menu.

Grazie