[Colin Gould]

Thanks for the feedback.. useful to compare experiences/workflows 🙂

For your longer-length scenes, are they stop/start events in the camera, or just entire long continuous shots you’ll edit later?

My stuff is all mostly “semi-edited” in-camera, since it’s vacation and home and other event shots… I’d imagine anything else with multiple takes or shots would be the same (eg film etc); obviously less with continuous-shot taping like concerts/events.

For the former, it’s highly critical for me to simply & quickly jump to the next camera start.
MSPro lets me just do Page-Down/Up to jump *instantly* to the next item/”edge” on the timeline, be that a scene cut, marker, whatever… there is NO scrolling or searching involved at all. No need for video thumbnails on timeline either to try and see what it is and where one bit ends, it’s already precut. It’s instant and very nice.
To edit such scenes, I just need to maybe trim the start/end a bit to remove fluff, or find the glitched camera shot (eg my feet 🙂 ) and remove the shot entirely, etc…

How is that accomplished in Vegas? (w/o scene detection at capture time, which may not always be feasible)?

I’ve also found the trial version timeline scrubbing to be kind of limiting/slow; partly I found had to use Ctrl key for non-linear scrubbing… I’m more used to semi-instant/non-linear dragging thru the timeline, even if video doesn’t always keep up.
Am I missing another feature/setting here, or does it just work differently?
The Vegas variable speed “jog/shuttle” speed control dial was more smooth than MSPro, but again that is linear not “quick/rough drag”…?

[Colin Gould]

Thanks very much for the fast answer and confirmation- bummer.
That’s pretty much a deal-killer for me, and a surprisingly lacking feature.

Will have to stay w/ MSPro or look elsewhere…

[Colin Gould]

The question is, can you have Vegas automatically create new “events” (eg, scene/segment/clip) based on camera start/stop (timestamp) shots or events, in the timeline or media bins, from an EXISTING (already-captured) multi-shot(long) single AVI or M2T file?

summary: Is DV or HDV automated camera scene detection in Vegas ONLY accessible at capture time (and then by forcing separate files per shot? Or can you split previously captured files automatically later?
This is a purchase-stopper for me.

MediaStudio Pro (and Apple above seems like) don’t force camera-scene detection and splitting at time of capture (into 1-file-per-shot). You can “virtually” split by camera scene, using the DV timestamp info, after the capture in the editor.

This is extremely important to my current workflow in MSpro, and my tons of previously captured media…
I heavily rely on editing based on camera shot, and want those camera shots automatically marked in the editor (whether each shot is a separate captured file, or just a virtual clip in larger captured file, should be a choice by the user.)

I would love to keep using MSPro for this, as it works well, except MSPro (and VideoStudio) doesn’t support camera-timestamp scene detection/splitting for HDV files, either at capture or in the timeline (it only splits scenes based on image content, which works 99% of time, but is very slow.)

I am trying out the trial version of Vegas and can’t figure this out.. I can’t believe this feature is missing. I hope this is just unfamiliarity w/ how vegas works??