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Sony Vegas 12 WISHLIST
With a NLE war currently on, I believe Sony Vegas is a potential sleeping giant, particularly for Newsrooms. I would like to see what other users would love to see in a SONY VEGAS 12, to help it compete in the NLE war.
My suggestions are as follows: A trimmer interface with a more industry standardised INSERT / OVERWRITE timeline features. Currently basic trimmer IN / OUT point and region selecting is non-intuitive and frustrating at times, forcing in my case the use of a keyboard shortcut: “Trackview.Select.Loop” to simply select a region within the trimmer to drop onto the timelime. Currently clicking the region in the trimmer is hit & miss which often leads to resetting of the IN / OUT points each time. A simplified trimmer with insert / overwrite functions more closely aligned to that of Final Cut would go along way in winning over customers.
Sony has a fantastic opportunity to capitalise on disgruntled Final Cut Pro users looking to switch. AVID is leading the race currently but lacks native AVCHD / MOV realtime editing (using a strange “AMA” arrangement if users do not want to transcode to the native DnX file type). For users such as me the need to cut fast newstories, VNR’s & promos post-events, Sony’s ability to cut these files natively with use of draft/preview modes if necessary is the industry bench-mark I believe. AND I love the ability to add/preview multiple fx on the fly as the playhead moves or even scrubs, no other NLE allows this in my experience.
However a few quirks of the interface would prevent other users from making the switch. I currently have the task of overhauling a newsroom and would love to suggest Sony Vegas (12) as an alternative particularly as we are using Sony XDCAM, but unfortunately the browser software Sony make is easier to use with FCP than it’s own NLE! With Sony XDCAM winning the newsroom standard, it’s unfortunate Sony has taking the initiative to win over the NLE’s as well.
Sony please be brave with version 12, a huge market is hungry for an alternative. The nuts & bolts of the program is fantastic however the presentation let’s it down. (Ohh & please scrap Pro-titler, I still can’t workout that b#stard of a plug-in!)
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Sony is having a survey on features you would like
to see in future versions of Vegas….You can make
your voice be heard there.
I think you would have received it via email if you
are registered on the site.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I trust VP11 is workng for you. It certainly isn’t for me.
I would wish that VP11 is completed & debugged before proceeding to VP12. Maybe you are not aware that simple basic features for example ‘Print HDV to Tape’ fell off the rails in VP11 and is still not fixed despite the fault being reported last November
Reading the SCS forum would indicate VP10e has quite a few unresolved bugs.Sony need to achieve a rock stable finished release of the current version. Rushing on to VP12/13 will damage the vegas image further.
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MY wishlist….
1) That SVP 11 would actually be FULLY FUNCTIONAL!!!
a) GPU Acceleration both PREVIEW and Rendering
b) DV capture
c) Print to tape
d) NO constant crashing
e) Pan/Crop2) SVP 12…more Vegas plugins
Overall, that I could TRUST that new features are actually WORKING PROPERLY before being announced, let alone at release….so I don’t spend money on something that I cannot use…
Scott Francis
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I recently answered the survey and had several suggestions – one that I wish I’d added is simply a lock button for tracks so I can keep from accidentally shifting tracks out of sync
Christopher Key
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Final Cut always had a nice little feature. When you drag a clip to the right a menu will pop up with options .. drop in with cut / dissolve/
replace clip etc. Might be kind of handy if they would put some icons on a pop up menu. -
The first and most important issue the Vegas engineers should
address, is the stability of Vegas. (extensive beta testing and
fine tuning, before a version is released).Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I agree – it seems more and more software companies are releasing software before it’s really ready for daily use – I guess they’ll patch it later while they get the money for upgrades now – not cool. I downloaded Vegas 11 trial over the weekend to see if it could help with renders for my website – I was thinking about upgrading – but once I tried it I was less than satisfied and will be waiting for significant improvements.
I’m currently using Vegas Pro 10 and have been using Vegas for years – the last couple of upgrades have been mostly about adding support for new cameras rather than improving the overall capabilities and stability of the program itself. IMO these should be patches not full upgrades.
Christopher Key
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I am sometimes concerned when i have to wait until a .0c
or a .0e version is available before i fully integrate
Vegas in my workflow.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Hi, sorry for my poor english.
For VP12 i wish.
1. Optimal fit for 4:3 videomaterial in a 16:9 Projekt. This works only for still-image with automatic cropping.
2. In masking mode it would be helpful to have a slide-fuction like the “hand” (space bar) in photoshop. You can not scroll to another side if you are in masking mode when zoomed in.
3. A posibility to aply 3D-effect to a single event. It is only posible to give a whole track the 3D-Composite-Mode (3d-source-alpha). A few years ago there was a free 3D-le-plugin. But this plugin is not compatible with VP11.
4. If there were particle-effects and motion tracking it would be a fully solution for real compositing. This would be great. Then you have a NLE,Audio-editor and a real compositing software in one piece.
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