Why can’t I search the VegasPro forum

[Tim Wilson]

Hi Robert,

Many new features coming to the Search tools, and this is definitely on the list! For now, just add “Vegas Pro” or even just Vegas as the first term in your search inquiry, and that will do nearly all the job for you.

As an example, I went to the front page of the site, typed in “Vegas plugins”, and the answers I got were all from the Vegas Pro forum.

That’s not to say that we don’t have the “search this forum only” feature coming. We do! Along with many other search tools….but try your search starting with “Vegas Pro” and see how it goes! And be sure to let us know if you’re getting unexpected results. Even within the current search toolset, we’ve already done quite a bit of refinement, and will be happy to see what else we can do.

Regards,

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Robert Maier]

Didn’t work well. More than 1,000 returns, many of which don’t refer to Vegas Pro, which is what I need. Also it would be great to have a date filter. Reading replies from 16 years ago is not terribly helpful. I know coding is hard. Good luck with it!

[Tim Wilson]

Sorry to hear that you didn’t get the results you were looking for! Can you tell me the search term and let me take a look? We’ve done a lot of refining already, and having specific targets is very helpful.

Reading replies from 16 years ago is not terribly helpful.

If it applies to the latest version, true, but in general, you’d be amazed. One of the reasons we’re still around is that our most popular thread on any given day might have started 10 or 15 years ago. One of our most popular tutorials was written in 2002!

But yes, I refine dates in Google, too. Especially when my question is about a new feature that was just introduced, even a month is too old. There was a lot that was busted in our old search engine (which is why we rebooted), but I did dig that the default was to search 2 years back, and you had to ask to see more. Definitely going on the list.

Thanks for the details, and if you don’t mind, I really would love to take a look at your specific search term, as well as a broader description of the problem you’re trying to solve!