Future Enhancements

[Terry Stetler]

Resizable would mean making it scalable. Might be difficult with so complex a control.

I agee that a universal "on/off" for styles, animations and effects would be nice.

Because the titler can do multiple layers of text in each title you have to scroll each layer that has an animation applied into the viewport before selecting it and un-checking the checkbox on the animation or effect tab.

Want the background vidceo to disappear while editing the title? Just select Solid as the background instead of Transparency You can switch it back when finished if that's what you require.

I agree that Unicode should be included ASAP.

[spurrymoses]

Resizable would mean making it scalable. Might be difficult with so complex a control.

True, although if the dialog didn't use non-Windows controls they'd fit a lot easier as well.

From what I can tell, the fonts that are used on the controls in the Title Dialog, are not the type or size that I chose in my Windows settings. Nor is the colour. If they were, they'd fit a lot easier

I think if they are going to use non-standard controls, with non-standard windows colours, fonts, etc then they need to implement a system of 'skins' or the user is stuck with no choice in the matter.

I won't hold my breath on this one, as from what I've seen of other Ulead software, that's the path they've definitely repeatedly decided to take in this matter.

[Terry Stetler]

It's really not much less Windows-spec than the TitleMotion plugin used in Premiere and other programs. I've seen much worse

[spurrymoses]

Further to the title clip dialog, there is actually a setting for 'Transparency' on there, but you wouldn't know it.
All other options have the word describing what it does next to it, but this option just has a weird, non-descript button. The only way to actually find what this control does is hold your mouse over it and see the tool tip.

So rather than being just a gripe, my enhancement suggestion is to never allow any parts of a dialog interface to be determined only by holding a mouse over it.
This dialog is so big and clunky already that the word 'Transparency' could surely fit there somewhere

It actually took me several days to realise that it was possible to make transparent text in MSP8, I presumed that they had taken the functionality out.

[spurrymoses]

Hi,

Can I just be a bit picky and look at enhancements for the Title Clip dialog user interface that would be really handy.

In fact, some of the suggestions I list here would already be possible if standard Windows dialog controls were used (eg Combo Box, List Box etc)

#1 - In the Font selection combo box, I can't type the first letter of the font name to go straight to it. So, if I have a font named "ZooFont", in standard Windows control I can just type 'Z" and it will jump to the place in the list that starts with Z. In MSP8 - no go.

#2 - The same combo box and other List Boxes on the dialog, I can't press and hold the up and down arrows... which then forces me to physically grab the tiny bar and move it around. Or continously click, click , click until my finger turns red

#3- There are times when you come out of the Title Clip dialog (OK or cancel) and the TimeLine shortcut keys don't work. So pressing Key combo "Shift-Space" to play the selected area - doesn't work... until you reselect the TimeLine window. I'll try and produce an exact scenario for this.

#4 - Here's pretty much a bugette. If you have 'Fill Text Colour' selected in a Title and the 'Border' unchecked. Then you unselect and reselect 'Fill Text Colour' - then the 'Border' check box is automatically selected for you - and you never knew you wanted it A hard-coded suggestion

#5 - When you select a title and then choose an animation and then play it. After you do this, the title is continuously unselected for you. So you need to constantly go back and reselect the title before testing the new one. A lot of the time, the user ends up changing the animation but realising that, because they haven't explicitly reslected the title, that they haven't actually changed it at all. They've changed nothing. This is #1 annoying in this post

[Helge]

Here the top of my wishes for improvement:
1) #5 of Spurrymoses is also my top wish. I have posted it allready to Ulead and also here in the forum. I find the small animated icons indicating the effects more irritating than helpful A good text description would be better. Wished that I could simply click one effect after the other (or scroll through) and see at once how my title looks with it.
2) Correct the new introduced bug with sp1, that zooming out with keyboard does not work, if you happen to have just zoomed in to frame resolution. Also its easy to work around that, its annoying. (This bug is also reproducible if you set the resolution of the timeline via menu to 1 frame - than the minus key or shift Z click has no effect.)
3) The option (by a button) to view a grid (eventually with configurable distance) in source, preview and trim windows.
4) Two individual adjustable cursors for the trim windows. Great would be to have a third window which shows the images of the other two semi transparent overlayed, but with a grid this would not be necessary. (Explanation: I often wish to remove some part of a video, e.g. if I was interrupted by someone unwanted walking through the image and I repeated a shot. So I am searching for two cut positions such, that the remaining parts fit very well together (seemlessly). I first thought that stich trim would solve this problem, but it does not, since even with it you have two parameters: the position of the trim and the distance of the clips. I wonder, how others solve this problem. Dont they care? Am I too pedantic?)
5) Move chapter cues when the video is moved (at leased with ripple edding).
6) Allow for exporting / importing of cues to a text file.

[Don Smith]

HAVE A GRID OPTION ON THE TITLER. How hard can that be? Like you have for DVDWS2. I have made several videos with extensive titling that have had 6 or 7 levels appear, and you really need a grid to line things up correctly. I made one in Photoshop just to line things up, but it's a real PIB to use. Sure would be nice to just click a Grid button.

[sjj1805]

Funnily enough that was the very first suggestion I made and what prompted me to start this thread

[Don Smith]

Ha! I just read the title "Future Enhancements" and went to page three, never saw that! But I've "complained" about that before in suggestions for the SP1. But apparently that went on "the cutting room floor". Sure wish they'd do this, like I wrote, "how hard can it be"?

[neonbob]

I just recently downloaded the trial of msp and gave it a try...love it! I usually use Avid/Pinnacle products but I am sooo tired of dealing with all the bugs, BUGS, BUGS!!!!

I don't know if this has been mentioned before ( I haven't read all the other requests) but the following things would be nice.... a 5.1 panning system similar to videostudio 10, the existing one gets the job done but tends to be a little clunky. A smoother preview playback when editing HD... in spite of all the bugs in Avid Liquid 7... the playback is silky smooth, and doesn't require a proxy... of course avid's system requirement are much higher and this may be the difference. I like to see the REAL thing in the viewer and not just a stand-in. And built in DVD authoring, that has the same max burn rate as videostudio (Avid liquid max's out at 8500kps). It's kind of a pain exporting from one program, into another.

If these things were done, then as far as I can see... a good product will become a real winner!

[holeejo]

There are 2 things I ran into recently.

1) I edit with multiple camera shots all the time. Sync them on multiple video tracks with the main one on Track 1. I spend a whole lot of time cutting Track 1, moving those resulting edges left and right to make room for a section from another track above, getting the right amount of time for overlay for transitions and finally dragging the new clip on top. How about this: Cut the video on a track, ie Track 1. Drag the other clip on top and MSP8 will move the edges of Track 1 right/left leaving a pre-selected default for the transition overlay. Would save tons of time (if you can measure time using a weight unit.)

2) I create a title and set keyframes to fade in and then fade out at 20 frames each (or however long.) Copy this title and use it somewhere else, BUT, I have to make it longer or shorter. The keyframes are no longer at 20 frame distances from the edges. There could be a selection to keep keyframes at specific distances or relative as it is now.

Oh and 3) I would love to have VU meters with having to use the Audio Mixing Panel.

Thanks
Lee

[Devil]

I just recently downloaded the trial of msp and gave it a try...love it! I usually use Avid/Pinnacle products but I am sooo tired of dealing with all the bugs, BUGS, BUGS!!!!

I don't know if this has been mentioned before ( I haven't read all the other requests) but the following things would be nice.... a 5.1 panning system similar to videostudio 10, the existing one gets the job done but tends to be a little clunky. A smoother preview playback when editing HD... in spite of all the bugs in Avid Liquid 7... the playback is silky smooth, and doesn't require a proxy... of course avid's system requirement are much higher and this may be the difference. I like to see the REAL thing in the viewer and not just a stand-in. And built in DVD authoring, that has the same max burn rate as videostudio (Avid liquid max's out at 8500kps). It's kind of a pain exporting from one program, into another.

You have only the trial version. The full version with SP1 has greatly improved the 5.1 audio mixing panel.
If these things were done, then as far as I can see... a good product will become a real winner!

[fandj]

And what about something like "canvas size" similar to what we can find in Photoshop. Unless there is already a tool to do it, which I have not yet figured out (please note that is not Crop what I mean, but really image sizing filter). Thanks.

fandj