Setting Default Folders

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Setting Default Folders

Posted by Ryan Mcrobb on February 16, 2011 at 1:19 am

I am a video educator and teach Vegas Pro 10 to students as young as 8 years old.

I would like to be able to set Default folders for saving and rendering, eg a student clicks save, Vegas points to the I:/Vegas Movie Drive each and every time, and also be able to set a separate folder for student renders.

The only reason I would ask for this is to reduce time during the saving process, as many session are fairly short and some students can struggle with the combination of folder navigation, making a new folder, naming the folder correctly, entering the folder, unticking the ‘Render Loop region only’ buttton and so on and so forth.

Sony ACID has this feature in its preferences menu:

Is there a way to set this up in Vegas Pro 10?

Cheers,

Ryan

Matt Crowley replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Mike Kujbida
February 16, 2011 at 10:59 am

Sorry Ryan but the answer is no.
We’ve have been asking for this feature for a very long time and are still waiting 🙁
Matt Crowley
February 16, 2011 at 8:38 pm

I notice that in Movie Studio 10, there are a number of internal/hidden prefences relating to project, render, media etc paths. I haven’t tried changing any of them but that may be a start for tweaking the defaults. You can see these by shift-clicking Preferences on the Options menu and clicking the Internal tab. Browse the parameters, or type “path” into the filter box at the bottom of the dialog. There are quite a few even in Movie Studio.
Ryan Mcrobb
February 17, 2011 at 1:34 am

Thanks Mike, unfortunately I am not entirely surprised to hear that!
I am surprised Sony haven’t put this in; how hard can it be?!? It would make their software more usable in an educational environment.

Matt, thanks for your response. That is an interesting workaround! I am a little hesitant to open up our computer labs to the ‘internal’ tab, there are some settings in there which could really stuff Vegas up, I’m not sure if I trust myself! I think I will give it a go on a few computers and take it from there.

Thanks to the both of you.

Ryan
Matt Crowley
February 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Yeah, best to try the Internal settings first on a non-critical system to test. The Internal tab setting are probably hidden for a reason! These are the settings that are either still in development or are not expected to be changed. Think of it as like tweaking the Windows Registry.

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