Vegasaur comes to mind. I can renumber markers and regions. How about TimelineTools?

They are all continued to be numbered but the display of the number stops at 99. That's just how Sony decided to do it. But it's much higher now - it used to stop at 9.

Instead of the silly number scheme of VegasPro or even an arbitrary name - use the
timecode of the timeline or timecode embedded in the clip/event to create a region name.

You can use a variety of arbitrary styles - perhaps the start mark timecode, or a combo name of begin and end timecode abbreviated - It is a good habit to create a well documented project. Using some built in functionality of the Timeline Tools notes tool can help you do this and more.

Sorry to say but even Vegasaur cant go beyond 99. It can name it higher but the white numbers end at 99. I also cant see how to fit 3 digits and more into the orange marker flag, only option is to go alpha numeric.

How about this:

Using a Spreadsheet Fill Series Numbers > Copy > Open Edit Details View > Paste

Any good for you?

G

@Grazie

+1 Very easy. Done this many times when events or regions exceed 100. Just bring up edit details and paste into Names making sure that the number of items pasted is the same as the number of regions or events.

Hopefully, in the next version, the little marker and region icons will be expanded to 3 digits so this type of workaround becomes unnecessary.

wwaag

"Hopefully, in the next version, the little marker and region icons will be expanded to 3 digits so this type of workaround becomes unnecessary."

Yeah, Waggle, don't hold your breath too long.

I'm interested(?) to see/note just how fundamental the Vegas-Custodians will have been given the permissions and resources to make the requisite code changes needed not only for this improvement but all the others. If they do, then the Future is rosy.

G

It's probably also important to point out that Regions and Markers share the same numbering system. So if you drop Marker 1 and Marker 2 and add a Region, it will be Region 3. No way around this either. So if you drop markers while creating regions the numbering will be shared and not continuous.

~jr

I had no idea this thread would have generated so much interest. Thank you all and I must try some of these suggestions, though something tells me that the workarounds might not be worth the trouble, which in turn uncovers that this is not too serious an issue for me and I can just as well live with no numbered tags.

For me it would be good enough if the fix would mean just having the tag count rotate back to 1 each time I hit 99.

To make that solution near perfect would be to have the ability to change the color of any new set of tags.

Absolute perfection would be to employ a three figure count and I would think this shouldn't take up all that much extra space to make it impractical.

@~jr: I find that quirkiness quite annoying as well and hopefully bringing this up just might generate some improvements in the future.

I've been coming here for 14 years. I've seen, had ideas and wishes bud, blossom, wither and die. Now and again there's sometimes just enough talented individuals to make a difference and either it gets absorbed into the code or some other solution is made real. This one? It will wither and blow away.

G

On the other hand, I can't blame the developers. There must be so many more serious items on a long To Do list and even something as simple as this takes lots of time (except maybe make the numbers cycle instead of stop.) :)