What Features Would You Like Added to V7b ??

ken c wrote on 9/15/2006, 3:59 AM

We've probably talked about this before, but let's give the developers an idea as to what features we REALLY need that are currently MISSING from V7a.

My list:

#1: A good TITLER that can do beveled text + other advanced titling functions such as 3d type text and better motion editing

#2: A better TEXT EDITOR in DVDA.. right now you can't do any horizontal compress or other features. And no I don't want to go make it in photoshop/fireworks and import alpha pngs... some advanced functions for better manipulation of text in DVDA would be great. Right now, the way it handles text is very clunky. Building in at least some decent 3d/shadowing/bevel text and other effects would be welcome.

#3: Faster rendering, of course, however that would be accomplished.

What other features would YOU like to *really* see that you've been asking for but (disappointedly) didn't see in V7a this time out?

thanks,

Ken

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Grazie wrote on 10/26/2006, 10:22 PM

Hey Guys?!? Take some of the pain away . ..

If you are ALREADY at the K/B anyways, why don't you just use Shift+Right Arrow?!? Done! This ways you got EXACT Loopies?!? . .ok . .CTRL Drag would be kinda neat. But in the meantime you DON'T need to suffer. If you already knew this - fine.

Or have I got this wrong?

DrLumen wrote on 10/27/2006, 11:34 PM

I give an AYE to a smart rendering function. It seems like a clip, say of an MPEG, that has been split and editted could be rendered between the B frames of the existing clips instead of having to re-render the entire clip(s) again. That should also eliminate the re-compression loss. I just used MPG as an example as it would seem to be the worst case scenario. Why would an AVI (DV) file have to be re-rendered entirely?

Maybe it just seems easy...

jaegersing wrote on 10/28/2006, 9:42 PM

"A must is being able to paste attributes with OPTIONS instead of pasting another clips attributes and it adds on top of the attributes of the clip filters/speed/pancrop etc etc. What if I want to paste a consistent look with filters across certain clips when finishing but I dont want to affect the speed changes I have applied or cropping etc etc? FCP does this......
I agree... the paste event attributes window should pop up a dialog like FCP."

Yes, selective Paste Attributes would save a heck of a lot of time. Adobe Premiere had it back in Version 5 (possible earlier) so it's not as if it's cutting edge technology. I would also like to see this for text events too, so that text properties can be easliy changed without the text itself being changed.

Richard Hunter

JJKizak wrote on 10/29/2006, 6:03 AM

Agree with DrLumen and also a way to manage memory use as Vegas gets real squirly when you start to really beat on it.

JJK

ScottyLacy wrote on 10/29/2006, 3:12 PM

I'm still pining for a true timeline scrub. It's the only thing I miss from using Premiere, which allowed you to drag your cursor along the timeline and hear the audio at whatever rate you were moving your cursor. Was great for quickly finding a particular spot in the audio track.

BusyBee wrote on 10/30/2006, 6:01 AM

multiple source viewers - in order to play 2 simultaneous video recordings of a scene (a wide track and a tight track) in order to easily switch from one to the other.
I am currently limited to make one track partially transparent, so I can superimpose and view both tracks in the sole available viewer.

Henry

PeterWright wrote on 10/30/2006, 6:05 AM

By either using Excalibur, Ultimatte S, a number of scripts or simply doing it yourself, you can set up a multi screen view in Vegas so that you can see any number of tracks, not just 2, without using partial transparency, but each in their own frame.

GlennChan wrote on 10/30/2006, 6:45 AM

Timeline scrub: Hold down crtl while you scrub the playhead. Does that do it?
(Actually I kind of like how Final Cut Pro [and Premiere?] does it, where you don't need to hold down control and the scrub is more like a jog control instead of a shuttle.)

Tech Diver wrote on 10/30/2006, 6:56 AM

I feel that we really need editable Bezier curves for Pan/Crop and Track Motion. I have plugins with this ability in Boris Red, Wax (free no less!), and in Hollywood FX (when I used to use Pinnacle products years ago). Some folks have developed some scripts to create lots of linearly interpreted keyframes to get around this, but it's a very inflexible approach.

dcrandall wrote on 10/30/2006, 8:51 AM

"I'm still pining for a true timeline scrub. It's the only thing I miss from using Premiere, which allowed you to drag your cursor along the timeline and hear the audio at whatever rate you were moving your cursor. Was great for quickly finding a particular spot in the audio track."

Ummm ..... I believe "Playhead timeline scrubbing" was added in Vegas 6. Simply drag the Playhead on the timeline and you will scrub both video and audio (if you drag the cursor line you will not get audio)

-Dan

douglas_clark wrote on 10/30/2006, 9:14 AM

Support the new VST-3 audio plug-in standard which Steinberg introduced with Cubase 4.
knowledgebase.steinberg.net article about VST 3
This would provide a standard way to do sidechaining, and maybe solve some of the difficulties in providing per-event audio FX. (note: Steinberg only promises to release the VST3 SDK in 2ndQ 2007. There aren't many (any?) VST3 plugins available now, except those that come with Cubase 4. It's a longer term development, for sure.)

ScottyLacy wrote on 10/30/2006, 10:35 AM

If you're talking about the timeline "scrub" where you alt-click and drag that cursor-pointer on the timeline, then I knew about that. Thing is, it's vastly inferior to Premiere's scrub, which required no additional keystroke, didn't require you to latch your mouse onto any object, and could move at any speed. Sony's version is a pale imitation of that.

I swear, I think that's my only significant complaint about Vegas. Otherwise, I love it.

dcrandall wrote on 10/30/2006, 11:14 AM

Nope, no extra keystrokes involved ..... just drag the playhead at any speed .... doesn't this work for you?

-Dan

BusyBee wrote on 10/30/2006, 11:35 AM

Thanks Peter,
I hadn't thought of the PIP solution.
Henry

ScottyLacy wrote on 10/30/2006, 12:50 PM

Ah, you are correct about not needing the alt-click. My bad. Still, I find the scrubber far inferior to the one in Premiere (or at least the version I used many years ago). And I say this with the belief that, overall, Premiere is far inferior to Vegas.

Vegas finally implemented "snapping" in a quality fashion, I just wish they'd do the same with scrubbing. There should be a strip in the timeline where you can simply click down anywhere and move your mouse back and forth to scrub audio/video, and at speeds much faster than the playhead allows. Having to deal with the playhead for scrubbing seems completely unnecessary to me. Wherever you click your mouse on a would-be scrub strip should automatically create an on-the-fly playhead.

Naturally, this could just be a personal preference on my part. But I find the Vegas scrubber slightly too onerous and ineffective to become a natural part of my editing workflow.

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