Features to surpass Premiere

[Jerry Waters]

I was about to say that, Mike, and I find the shorten or lengthen a clip feature more useful and not just video. Sometimes you need to shorten or lengthen the audio and it works if the compression is slight.

JerryW

[Veronica Flume]

Depends on your preferences.

Editing style depends on your preferences. Making popular editing styles easy is a matter of software design. My original point had absolutely nothing to do with personal preferences, or exactly which keys do what, for that matter. If some popular tasks or actions or editing styles are easy in Premiere and are harder or more awkward in Vegas, then Vegas will have a tough time wooing people away from Premiere. Simple as that.

Regards,
Veronica

[Rob Mack]

It turns out that holding down the F key as you pull edges of events around does the same sort of ripple as a control+drag does in PPro.

You need to pick your battles with this sort of thing. The manner in which ripple editing works between applications is largely inconsequential, but the fact that you couldn’t easily figure out how to do the same thing in Vegas…that’s a bigger issue.

Vegas shouldn’t have the exact same keystrokes as a competitor, but it should be as easy as possible to figure out how to do things. In general, people always hate the other software because they can’t work as fast in it so it’s important to make those transitions as painless as possible.

What I’d really most like to see is status bar hints at the bottom of the timeline, or somewhere consistant. This was something I used to love about Corel Draw, and Photoshop is fairly helpful in this regard too. Having some contextual information about the various modifier keys available at the moment would be very helpful.

One major turnoff in Vegas is the fact that the timeline cursor moves to wherever you click in the timeline. If I select an event, the cursor jumps there. I’ve always hated that.

Beyond that, Vegas needs to have overwrite and insert modes, even if current users wouldn’t use them.

Rob