Question About V6 Media Manager

MHampton wrote on 4/18/2005, 11:02 AM

Quick question. I have looked through the manual and read Spot's write-up. I was looking for a good media manager before to manage all my video clips. Never found one I liked and could afford (I'm only a hobbiest) :) Does the media manager in V6 allow you to catalog the clips on your tapes and then go back and recapture the scenes from a particular tape without having the huge avi files on-line eating up my disc space? It would be nice to have just a thumbnail and be able to store the tape name, start and end timecodes, and other information. Does this media manager work like this? 6 looks like a great upgrade from 4. I went from 3 to 4, but skipped 5.

Thanks,
Michael

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MHampton wrote on 4/18/2005, 2:16 PM

Anyone? And if Vegas media manager can't do this can anyone recommend a reasonable one that will?

Thanks

BrianStanding wrote on 4/18/2005, 2:22 PM

Mike,

I'm planning on playing with V6 tonight. I'm curious to see if Media Manager will recognize Scenalyzer Live index files. If so, this could be very interesting.....

vicmilt wrote on 4/18/2005, 2:26 PM

Vegas' 6 media manager will allow you to recapture footage.

SimonW wrote on 4/18/2005, 2:47 PM

I think that it does save thumbnails, and footage can be recaptured. Now whether it works in the way you want it to I don't know. But it would be pretty awesome if if it.

rextilleon wrote on 4/18/2005, 2:55 PM

Brian, let us know what your results are---Is anyone having a problem when passing their mouse over an event in the Media Manager getting it to enlarge all the time. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't?

SimonW wrote on 4/18/2005, 3:37 PM

I've noticed that it can be a bit slow to respond sometimes. Although to be honest I don't know why this auto enlarging is truly neccesary. Seems easier to me to just enlarge using the slider.

jwf wrote on 4/23/2005, 1:24 PM

You can disable the thumbnail zooming entirely (or just tweak the delay factor) in the media manager options dialog from the media manager toolbar menu. Zooming is enabled after the initial delay, but if you move the mouse outside of the thumbnail window, we stop zooming right away so that you can easily get at the controls along the side such as the size slider, details checkbox, or toolbar.

We do capture thumbnails in a disk cache (much like a web browser can) - so you can still see the thumbnails even if the media is offline.

For videos, we will auto-select a non-black frame (up to a point - if your video has 30 seconds of starting black...we give up and give you frame 0). But you can always tweak the automatically chosen frame through the context menu.

frazerb wrote on 4/23/2005, 2:58 PM

Might look at www.scenalyzer.com. It indexes a tape at low resolution so you can capture only the clips you want.