bug in trimmer? – no video, audio only

[Steve Rhoden]

I sent a report to SCS regarding this a couple days ago,
to look into that particular trimmer issue.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Gilles Gagnon]

Perfect! Thanks Steve.
I thought it was something I was doing incorrectly.

If you think of it, please post back here if you hear back from them.

Gilles

Gilles

[Steve Rhoden]

Will do….Ive seen this happens a number of times when im
using the trimmer, even in Vegas 10, but it never really bothered
me, as ive gotten used to dealing with Vegas’s little imperfections.
…But they still must be brought to light, so that the software
can improve.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Gilles Gagnon]

I agree.

Makes me wonder a bit about the level of testing that goes on before a release. Especially since this has gone on in a previous version. It doesn’t seem like an “obscure” bug to me.

Let’s hope you hear back.

Gilles

[Rob Mack]

It couldn’t be this easy, but…

I just tried dragging the trimmer out to float freely and sure enough all I could see was the audio track. Then I rolled my mouse up above the edge of the audio track and the cursor changed to indicate a draggable border. I pulled that border down to reveal the video portion of the tracks. So it seems like Vegas just set the video track height to Zero when I floated the window.

Rob Mack

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Rob. Thanks.
I just tried undocking it and it’s not misbehaving… at the moment.
next time it does, I’ll look for the resize you mentioned. It’s bound to happen again 😉

Gilles

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Rob, just tried again. No go.

Full size wave (audio), no video, no handle to resize. Redocked… both audio/video appeared with sizing handle.

Another observation… when trimmer is undocked and I only see the wave, if I press the trimmer’s PLAY, then the video appears. it disappears again when I pause/stop.

Gilles

Gilles

[Rob Mack]

I don’t know if we’re seeing the same thing but it’s similar. If you float and doc the trimmer a few times you might see it being redrawn inconsistently. Sometimes the tracks are small, sometimes the monitor portion of the window is small or completely collapsed. For me, it’s always there, just sometimes collapsed down to a height of zero.

Part of it is that the docked window and the floated window are different sizes, so the adjustable parts of the window need to be resized, and I think their method of deciding on the sizes is buggy.

Rob