Windows resizing, closing themselves -- and other V5 annoyances...

vitamin_D wrote on 5/28/2004, 8:29 AM
I've made mention of this in the net render thread, but figured it might go overlooked.

I've got a series of weird window placement and resize issues in Vegas 5. The first and most notable is when I net-render something -- distributed or non, in other words all the time -- I see that Vegas actually launches a new instance of itself just after temp saving the .veg of the project I'm working on (what a sly trick, guys)...

Only, just before doing this, you're sent to a dialogue that allows you to choose your render type, clients, etc. and my dialogue window is stuck looking like this. I cannot make any choices, change settings, or move on unless I double-click the title bar, making it look like this.

The "fix" of this issue, I've found -- after trying the ctrl+shift restore defaults -- is that the dialogue window seems to be "remembering" the dimensions of the temporary Vegas instance that has been opened in previous net renders, so that the workaround seems that I have to set a net render, then resize the new instance of Vegas, let it run its course. Now, on subsequent net-renders, the dialogue window is accordingly large enough -- but of course, the dimensions of the background temp Vegas instance are also large. A minor annoyance...

...but then there's the issue I explained elsewhere:

...if I open a video FX window, and dock my video preview in the FX window so that color curves are right beside the preview (for instance), when I then send out a segment to a non-distrbuted net render (background render), the video preview window takes over the entire area of the previous dock that was shared between preview and color curves -- forcing me to resize the preview window, and then re-open the FX window where, oddly, the video preview window now resides -- no longer docked beside the FX window, but as a tab underneath. If I drag the preview window from the FX window, the FX window jumps a bit -- half of it off-screen.

As an aside -- can we turn off the warning about saving a project before net rendering? Once might've been fine -- and well noted -- having it persistently remind me is aggravating.

- jim

WindowsXP SP2
Dual AMD 1.6ghz (Tyan TigerMP)
1 gig of RAM
Vegas 5.0a

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 5/28/2004, 9:48 AM
Knowing you have XP2 I would maybe delay upgrading from XP1.

JJK
vitamin_D wrote on 5/28/2004, 10:44 AM
I doubt SP2's the issue... it's not like it's a kludgy beta -- it's a release candidate. Aside from this -- I can't figure that a service pack would affect windows in this way -- it's a Vegas UI issue.

Incidentally, I've been wondering if some/all of these issues relate to my window memory prefs set through the nVidia control panel -- I've disabled them all and the problem still persists.

Have you tried to repeat the steps I've outlined? Does it happen on your machine?

- jim
johnmeyer wrote on 5/28/2004, 10:52 AM
I haven't had any of these problems, but I am wondering if you might be able to use the Vegas 5 Windows Layout feature to switch between layouts and thus restore the window sizes.

Also, if you get desparate enough, you might try resetting all your preferences to defaults (although that means you will have to re-do all your preferences). You used to be able to do this by holding Ctrl-Shift during startup. I assume that this still works.
vitamin_D wrote on 5/28/2004, 11:34 AM
john,

Thanks for the thoughts. As I'd written -- I tried the ctrl+shift to restore defaults. This hasn't remedied the issue. As you say you haven't had these problems, may I ask you to just give my exact setup a try?

Dock the video preview in an open video FX window
Leaving the docked FX/preview open, return to the timeline and set a region to render using network rendering -- nondistributed
What happens?

Without fail, my docking area gets messed with -- preview window gets huge and moves slightly off center (half of the window is, in fact, off screen), video FX window appears to close, and the cursor moves to the beginning of the timeline.

edit: ok -- just tried saving a layout and it doesn't solve the issue(s) -- it just moves the now overly large preview window back to where the dock was previously, and does not restore the FX window. Also, the cursor still bugs me -- why does it move to the beginning of the project?

- jim
vitamin_D wrote on 5/29/2004, 8:46 AM
My above oultined problem with the preview window docked with an FX window can be repeated any time -- just dock the preview in an FX window and save your project. Close and re-open it. It's there -- the FX window is lost, and the video preview window jumps to the entire size of the dock that was previously boh the FX and preview windows.

Hrm. Is this a bug in the eyes of Sony or just something we're not supposed to do?

- jim