Usually that works but for some reason video FX is replacing video preview...there are no hidden sections that can be dragged across to reveal the screen and the Video fx is also checked in te top menu under VIEW...that's why I am confused because usually it will show up as soon as you drag the vertical line across, it's usually hidden underneath...any other suggestions??? Please!!!

Do you see both tabs in the same pace where you have the preview window and the Video FX? What I mean by that is you can arrange the sub windows any way you want. I have mine set up so I have three sub windows across the bottom with various things in each. If for example you have BOTH the preview and Video FX in the same sub window then they toggle off and on if that's it grab one and drag and drop it in another of the sub windows.. If that ain't it, one thing I've done a few times when I "lost" a applet is go to the menu turn it off then watch very closely when you turn it back on and you may catch a fscreen flash of where it is "hiding" when the sub window refreshes. That's how I've found it when its lost. That's about all I can think of.

ok...I see what my problem is...my tabs are in the same window BUT there is only ONE sub window...ther used to be three but somehow I must have turned the off or something and I dont know how to re-create a new sub-window side by side...so you are right that one replaces the other because they are in only one sub-window...hope that is not too confusing...

To get back your regular windows, close Vegas, then restart it while holding your Control and Shift keys down. It should go back to normal.

BINGO!!!! YOU CERTAINLY ARE GR8!!!

TheGr8Steve - Hmm .. ? "It should go back to normal." . . well it WILL put back the Factory defaults . . but not your "normal" customised settings. Here is PAL - so I need to set up PAL from NTSC; Audio Editor; F/W conections; Pre-render folders and other folders. I can't remeber the opthers but there are now quite a few as vegas becomes more and more customisable. .. OH YES the biggie! Your previously used and hard wion and fiddled with Work Spaces AND your ALT+D options AND your toolbars AND your script needing to be remapped . .. guess there is quite a few - yeah? . .

So normal? Well kinda .. but only factory defaults and then a re-tailoring job!

Is there an option to save ALL one's prefs in a standalone file? Now THAT would be neat!?!?!?!

Grazie

You can't win. As soon as I finally shorten my answers to one sentence, I goof somebody else up. Come on Grazie, I speak layman. I thought you knew better than to listen to me. That is normal to us newbies and computer illiterates. Actually, I am surprised that there isn't a way to save your favorite settings, or be able to store a few different settings. Sorry if I messed you up. That was how Sonic Foundry told me how to get my windows back, eons ago, and I relayed the message.

I have V4, but I watched the video presentation of V5, and isn't there a way to save up to 10 templates of your favourite layouts?
That way if something goes south, you can just recall your template, no?

Mario

TheGr8Steve - apologies . . . and yes it would be neat to have a "personal-prefs" file to reload when a Factory Default was instgated.

MyST - For the Workspace templates yes there must be - but where is it? Hmm?

Sooooo.... maybe a way to "collect" all the personal prefs - including workspace/s - into one library to be re-invoked post-FactoryDefault process would be neat!

Best regards,

Grazie

Grazie...
Someone had posted a link to a NAB presentation of V5.
I watched part of it the other night. It has to to with using the number keys (not the number pad though) to asign the different templates... 10 in all.
Something like (and I'm really not sure) ctrl+shft+the number key to enter and shft+number key to recall.

Maybe DSE could elaborate.

Mario

For workspace:


To set:
ctrl-alt-D + #you want

To recall:
alt-D + #you've set

You've almost got it there....
1. Set up the "look" or arrangement of windows so they are the way you want them.
2. Press CTRL+ALT+D, and then the number on your keyboard (not keypad)
3. Set up another arrangement so it's the way you want it.
4. Press CTRL+ALT+D, and then the number on your keyboard (not keypad)
5. Press ALT+D D, and then the number of the template to recall a layout. You can have layouts on number keys 1-0, so up to ten layouts can be stored. I personally only have 4 that I use, and only 3 that I use regularly.
One for audio
One for general video
One for color correction
One for general finish viewing with most everything turned off/disabled/hidden so I get max screen area.
But...I've seen a lot of cool layouts in screenshots people have taken.

Even in Vegas 4 you can drag the windows out of the docks so that they float free. You can then drag them back into other docks where they'll snap into place.

Vegas 5 added the feature of ganging windows into floating docks.

In Vegas 4, handle to drag windows out of docks is a long vertical "ridge" at the left of the window. In vegas 5 it's a column of dots.

The ability to set layout presets was also a great enhancement to V5, as everyone here using it knows, but afaik you can't save the layouts as a file object that you could email to a co-conspirator. The preset is only available inside Vegas.

Rob Mack

A word of caution here, though...

I"m bumping this up for you, Grazie. In case you didn't notice Spots detailed answer. Maybe this will somehow make up for you losing your favorite settings. ( In case you couldn't get them back, and you probably couldn't) I think it's pretty cool info. Now I wish I had V5.

. .and do these come back/get re-invoked / remain AFTER the application of the Factory Default 2-finger salute? This was my question then, and this question still remains. I know and have been using all that Mr Spot says and use and have been using the variations - I think I posted these too sometime back. Now that you have bumped this back into view I guess it is incumbent on me to repeat - yes?

My question is still about doing the Factory Default process. Nothing more . . Nothing Less!

Grazie


I repeat: Do these saved Workspace Settings get re-invoked AFTER the Facory Default process?

No, they don't. It's a complete reset of the application. There is a script on the VASST site that allows you to move templates from place to place, maybe you can use that to save them. I've not tried it.