VideoStudio Wish List for Future Versions

jmaschle · Post by **jmaschle** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:54 pm

1) give me a way to see what is in a VSP in plain text and compare it to my directory. This would help me clean up "the cutting room floor".

2) let me group, tag or otherwise mark audio tracks with video/titles. this would help me sync up the tail end of my video, when re-arranging the front.

3) provide a diagnostic to determine if all the dependencies are met on windows XP pro platform.

4) let me undock the playback window (i have dual monitors) and see all my overlays, titles, etc without scrolling

metmot · Post by **metmot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:16 pm

I like to make still photo slide shows. I would like to have the ability to add pan and zoom to an entire range of picture in the story board as a batch without having to use the movie maker wizard. It seems that with version 11 the engineers are so proud of their new added overlay tracks that they have found it necessary to pollute the slide show wizard with a bunch of stupid looking effects that are just a nuisance to erase once you use it. Remember the KISS theory guys? Keep It Simple Stupid? When I first saw the new improved wizard I thought great they recognized fade to black is a poor transition to use and chose cross fade instead. Well I dont know what they were thinking with that other silly stuff. Can I modify the template to get rid of all the fancy beginnings and endings without having to do it manually later in the time line?

John

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:19 pm

metmot wrote:I like to make still photo slide shows. I would like to have the ability to add pan and zoom to an entire range of picture in the story board as a batch without having to use the movie maker wizard. It seems that with version 11 the engineers are so proud of their new added overlay tracks that they have found it necessary to pollute the slide show wizard with a bunch of stupid looking effects that are just a nuisance to erase once you use it. Remember the KISS theory guys? Keep It Simple Stupid? When I first saw the new improved wizard I thought great they recognized fade to black is a poor transition to use and chose cross fade instead. Well I dont know what they were thinking with that other silly stuff. Can I modify the template to get rid of all the fancy beginnings and endings without having to do it manually later in the time line?

John

Use the editor and you can modify just about anything you want.

metmot · Post by **metmot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:30 pm

of course I understand this, My request is for the ability to add pan and zoom to a range of pictures from the editor. The only way currently you can do this is with the movie maker wizard. It takes substantial time to add pan and zoom manually to a hundred slides. This time can be better spent.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:37 pm

I don't understand how you could add a pan & zoom to a batch of pictures. Each picture would have a different focal point. How would the program know what to zoom in on and which direction to pan?

metmot · Post by **metmot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:24 pm

Well Jeff,

It goes like this. If you wish to add motion to your presentation, you have to start somewhere. Currently that starting point is to individually add it to each picture, then look at it and see if you like the way the program has applied it or if you need to fine tune that slide to your liking. My experience is that the random way it is applied by the program is acceptable about 75% of the time. Meaning I cant really improve on it in any significant way. The rest of them you must change to your liking say to empnhasize one aspect of the photo. It sounds to me like you haven't really played with this feature in VS much but believe me, adding pan and zoom is night and day for making a slide show interesting and presentable . If I add pan and zoom to the whole batch of say, 100 slides, 75 of them will require no further tweaking from how the software applied it. So in essence I will be saving 225 mouse clicks by having the ability to batch add it as it requires three clicks to add pan and zoom to a slide. One to select it, one to enable it and one to say OK. Over time this adds up to one pain in the butt! I hope this is starting to make sense. My thinking is if they can add transitions to the entire range, which VS11 can now do (bravo!) there is no reason that pan and zoom cant also be applied like that. Or for that matter any filter you wish to use globally on the project. That is my wish.

John

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:39 pm

I do use Pan & Zoom quite extensively, and very few times do the default parameters not need to be adjusted.

It is still my opinion that the feature you are looking for is not available because the filters are meant to be customized and not "one size fits all", like most transitions are.

However, you are free to wish away.

metmot · Post by **metmot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:57 pm

I am not trying to have a peeing match Jeff. So far all you have done is to tell me why I don't need this feature. I am saying it would be very handy if it was available. I wasn't asking if it would be handy, I knew for certain that it would before I posted. At least for my style of creating. If I have been unable to articulate why adequately then I apologize.

John

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:31 pm

I understand completely why you feel that type of feature would be beneficial for you. At no point did I tell you "why you don't need it", I'm simply just giving you my opinion as to why that feature may not be available. Take it or leave it.

d.angelico · Post by **d.angelico** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:38 am

I do a lot of photo slide shows and need the following:

1) A "delete all transitions" operator
2) A "fill all empty transitions" with either random or a single chosen trans
3) If an image is moved, the leading transition should follow the image when moved (instead of "sorry must delete trans - OK?")
4) Adjust selected transition durations ; I can do that with the image clips but not the transitions

Oh yeah and one more thing. I would really like a way to add chapter points automatically - not just by fixed duration, or autodetect - but by image clip boundary. Sometimes that will yield the same reuslts as autodetect, but not always.

Thanks
Dean

d.angelico · Post by **d.angelico** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:46 am

In order to get chapter points into a DVD I create my DVD project using VSP imports rather than video file imports. The guidelines posted herein say to create video/MPEG files and then author them into a DVD project. But the chapter point editor within the Share->Disc subsection is so weak, that I create the chapter points within the Edit mode. At least I can see my video clip boundaries within Edit.

So in order to get the chapter points into the Share->Disc authoring stage, I import VSPs into the authoring tool rather than video files.

But then I noticed that the new DVD authoring-only project VSP file has an interesting characteristic. It has read in (imported) each title VSP but it does not refer to the originals. So changes in the original video title VSPs are not reflected in the DVD VSP.

I hope a future version will consider pointers to VSP files rather than reading all the title VSPs in (creating one massive VSP for the DVD).

Thanks
Dean

scomb09 · Post by **scomb09** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:43 am

better green screening, the ability to patch green screen areas with another picture

ivy · Post by **ivy** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:15 pm

Hello,

MPEG-2 video's don't have sound filters available.
Nice to have for HDV users.

Providing a "wind noice" filter would be great...

Ciao,

Ivy

ivy · Post by **ivy** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:24 pm

Hello,

Altough I use the tripod more often ... a tilted horizon is sometimes filmed.
Especially when a sea horizon is filmed. Water streaming to one side looks funny but is not the purpose of the filming.

In the overlay track one can distord a clip.
It would be nice to be able to rotate the clip as well!

Ciao,

Ivy

ivy · Post by **ivy** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:02 pm

Hello,

It would be nice to be able to crop a clip so that one can eliminate parts of the clip

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VideoStudio Wish List for Future Versions

suggested improvements

For slide shows within Edit

On DVD project files

sound filters on Mpeg2 videos

straighten horizon, rotate clip

cropping clip