Sony Vegas 8.0 Wishlist

[Gilles Pialat]

One of my top wishes is to have an overwrite mode.
This is a basical feature, absolutely all others professional NLE have it

[Adam Rose esq.]

>>>
One of my top wishes is to have an overwrite mode.
<<< excuse my ignorance, but wazzat?

[Gilles Pialat]

This is the ability to replace existing event when adding clip to time line.
I spoke many time about it on the SMS forum:
https://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=387004

Actually, event are overlapped by new events.

I wrote a script to simulate this mode in Vegas, but there is some issue with grouped event.

[Adam Rose esq.]

what about right click and dragging clip to timeline, and choosing takes?

and if from trimmer, making sure ripple is off before adding to timeline at cursor point?

apologies if am not getting your point

😉

[Randall Raymond]

If you take a short clip and place it in the middle of a long – it does just fine as an overwrite in Vegas. But that’s about the extent of overwrite capability in Vegas.

[Rob Mack]

Looking around at descriptions of overwrite mode, The idea appears to be that it replaces the footage you’ve dropped it over and there is no ripple of the events on the timeline.

So here’s what Vegas doesn’t do. Suppose you drop some footage over two clips, so that it would have to overwrite the end of clip A and the beginning of clip B. Vegas can’t do that. It can be added as a take to one of the events, and it can seem to overwrite an area in a single clip, but it isn’t really overwriting. If you right-click the track header and enable “Expand track layers” you’ll see that what you’re really getting is an A/B track effect.

The closest thing to overwrite is to drag the new material into a track above the one you wanted to drop it into. This has the same visual effect but is a sloppy way to work when you’re hell-bent on pretending you have an overwrite mode.

With Vegas, I guess you have to cut out the hole and then drop the footage into it. That’s as close as you get to overwrite mode. Maybe the lack of overwrite mode comes from a lack of emphasis on the trimmer, since most overwrites would start there.

Rob Mack

[Gilles Pialat]

Thx Rob.

My English is not good enough to make such a good explanation ;))

For me, the lack of overwrite mode comes from Vegas was at the beginning an audio multitrack.
Paradoxically, this is what made its originality & its power too (compared with the others NLE).
But in my point of view, it is a pity that Sony don

[Brian Valente]

I have only two simple wishes for vegas: to handle 10-bit color space, preferably in conjunction with my decklink card, and to be windows Vista 64-bit capable.

I would be so happy 🙂