Wishlist for VS 2019

[asik1]

Just a note to support the request for VS to have MARKERS that DO move/ripple with edit changes. I do not regard these as Chapter Markers which as Ken says are more likely to be used after the majority of editing has been completed.

VS's lack of any other facility means that Chapter Markers are the only way we can drop markers that inform us we need to GO BACK to that sequence and maybe add something or insert something, and the fact that multiple such markers do NOT RIPPLE with inserts/deletions is POOR. Ideally VS needs another tier of Markers and ideally the Markers could be different COLOURS allowing us to indicate YELLOW = needs music here, RED = needs FX applied here , BLUE = think about DROPPING this clip/section etc .

This would be a significant improvement to VS as far as I am concerned.

Few years ago I raised that as "clip markers" to mark a point on a clip that will go with it where ever it is on the time line.
But no one at corel understand that.

[jowauk]

Maybe the Markers topic warrants a separate POST and an appeal for votes from the community. I suspect our comments when embedded in more general starting posts GET LOST as far as the powers at Corel are concerned.

I certainly feel the Markers issue is a MAJOR deficiency in VS and would be interested to know what support there is out there amongst the User Community for something being done to address this.

[iNate]

Just a note to support the request for VS to have MARKERS that DO move/ripple with edit changes. I do not regard these as Chapter Markers which as Ken says are more likely to be used after the majority of editing has been completed.

VS's lack of any other facility means that Chapter Markers are the only way we can drop markers that inform us we need to GO BACK to that sequence and maybe add something or insert something, and the fact that multiple such markers do NOT RIPPLE with inserts/deletions is POOR. Ideally VS needs another tier of Markers and ideally the Markers could be different COLOURS allowing us to indicate YELLOW = needs music here, RED = needs FX applied here , BLUE = think about DROPPING this clip/section etc .

This would be a significant improvement to VS as far as I am concerned.

Few years ago I raised that as "clip markers" to mark a point on a clip that will go with it where ever it is on the time line.
But no one at corel understand that.

I'm not seeing how this would be useful, outside of a Magnetic Timeline like Apple has in iMovie/FCPX.

Personally I wouldn't mind if they went in that route, completely (the video track already unconfigurably auto-ripples), but I think Apple has a Patent on that

Also, it's easy to lose sight on what Corel's target market is for VideoStudio. It's a consumer editor. Pinnacle Studio is their Prosumer offering, and may offer more advanced Timeline editing functionality (or behavior) that is more in line with what some more advanced users expect.

[jowauk]

Hi iNate

With great respect I would really challenge your comment that VS is a consumer editor. I agree any consumer WOULD be able to do the very basic things needed at the consumer level. But many of the capabilities of VS are advanced, whilst still being able to be used by those needing additional control and power to sizzle occasionally. I know nothing about the Pinnacle Studio solution OR where it is better than VS - but of all my pals who would be labelled consumer, I cannot think of many that could grasp the finesse of VS very easily. I think VS is a very good mid-range editor that I can use to produce attractive final content. As a cameraman, an editor, and the bloke who raises the invoices, it goes most of the way I need MOST of the time. Where I need to blend any advanced content/animations I use OTHER tools and drop the results into the VS blender.

[MonteCristo]

- It would be good if the installer could display the actions being performed (e.g. the fact that it's now installing NewBlueFX, and the progress); that way, we could see if something was e.g. installed incorrectly.

- The installer should have a repair / modify option, like most installers nowadays.

- The installer should definitely have better verification: I installed the Ultimate Package, and it gave no errors. VS ran properly, but no Boris FX or ProDAD plugins were installed. It took me several retries to find out that during the download, one of the packages (probably "Standard") was downloaded only partially, so it could not be properly installed (AFAICR, its .cab installation file was only a few megabytes long, and still had ".part" as its extension). But the installer just proceeded with installation, and that package's contents were missing in the program as a result. I had to delete all the installation files manually, restart the installation, download all packages, look at them to ensure that they were complete, and proceed with installing them.

- In the program itself, it would be useful if the timeline editor could display the graphical waveform of the audio track already in the video editing mode, like most video editors do - it's a useful "quick look / check" feature if you can see the waveform without having to switch to audio track editing.

[jowauk]

Hi Montecristo

If I understand your comment "could display the graphical waveform of the audio track already in the video editing mode" correctly, I think VS already does this - you just need to click the waveform view control situated about the middle of the tools selection - clicking this switches between "normal" view and waveform view for any audio in the timeline.

[iNate]

He wants to be able to see both at the same time, without toggling things as that is not intuitive and wasteful of time.

With the "normal" way, you can do things like Adjust video Opacity and Audio Volume without constantly mousing over to switch between Video and Audio Waveform view. It's just faster to edit when you can see both the Audio and Video Tracks without splitting them out and potentially ending up with synchronization issues (especially with the way the video track auto-ripples, but audio tracks do not).

[delboy007]

Mask Creator Tool

Please give the option to zoom in on an image when creating the mask. The window is very small so it is very difficult to control the brush or eraser.
Also please leave brush sizes and edge intolerence the same from previous editing. As there is no preview window I have to keep coming out of the mask creator to view changes. Then when I go back I have to adjust the brush size every time.

[gandalftheg]

Having had 2018 for some time now and finding it a good improvement, I am having a bit of a problem seeing some of the scrolling marks at the right
of the working windows, plus other activating sliders. It is the back ground colour used for the main work space background. I would like to have a choice of the main window colour.

[wira6444]

Please add the ability to apply Mercalli on ALL clips. I made traveling videos which have many many trimmed clips, currently i have to apply mercalli and re-analyze it one by one. This process taking too much of my time & it's bore me to death, sometimes i need around 2 hours to apply mercalli on all clips.
I tried to group it but it's useless, i have to analyze it again one by one anyway.

And i think color correction feature should be applied to ALL clips also

[RobertOZ]

Please add the ability to apply Mercalli on ALL clips. I made traveling videos which have many many trimmed clips, currently i have to apply mercalli and re-analyze it one by one. This process taking too much of my time & it's bore me to death, sometimes i need around 2 hours to apply mercalli on all clips.
I tried to group it but it's useless, i have to analyze it again one by one anyway.

Don't think that is possible, even with the standalone version of Mercalli 4.0 (which I use) the program can only analyse one clip at a time

[wira6444]

Don't think that is possible, even with the standalone version of Mercalli 4.0 (which I use) the program can only analyse one clip at a time

Maybe corel could automate it ?, analyzing sequentially from start to finish one by one but without user intervention.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3727440
Some guy there said, he could do it with Mercalli V3. But i don't have V3 though

[excalibur1814]

Each and every single year Corel wants us to upgrade but this year it's been REALLY annoying. After adding a text transition, changing the text size, it will often crash VS. ...and no it's not my machine as it happens on all three. Plus there's the recent issue with saving your clip but it uses the proxy video instead.

Just release an application that actually damn well works for a change and NOT just a colour change.

-Lut support.
-Fine movement of overlays or audio using arrow keys.

I fear, however, that we'll just get the usual rubbish just like each update for Corel Paint Shop pro. Another year, another tiny step forward, a few back.

[asik1]

Each and every single year Corel wants us to upgrade but this year it's been REALLY annoying. After adding a text transition, changing the text size, it will often crash VS. ...and no it's not my machine as it happens on all three. Plus there's the recent issue with saving your clip but it uses the proxy video instead.

Just release an application that actually damn well works for a change and NOT just a colour change.

-Lut support.
-Fine movement of overlays or audio using arrow keys.

I fear, however, that we'll just get the usual rubbish just like each update for Corel Paint Shop pro. Another year, another tiny step forward, a few back.

Who is forcing you to update or upgrade?
I'm OK with VSX9.2 and don't want even to update to X9.6 and bloat it.
As Excalibur you should know better.

[Casman]

At this moment in CVS10 it is possible to select all thumbnails in the storyboard but other than that, you cant really do anything with the selected thumbnails (via sub menu). A print/export/save as... possibility for the thumbnails (to cdr?) so that these thumbnails can be used for future reference or edited in a third party app for example to add comments, team ideas etc.