oh SWEET! Thanks! Yeah, too bad it kills the waveform too... >=(... Thanks bro

Oblisk....Hope I'm not too late, but...Welcome to the Vegas forum!

This forum is one of the best 'features' that Vegas has, and don't be afraid to ask for anything.

Are you really seeing a huge difference with thumbnails turned off? If you could, please post the framerate in the video preview window:

thumbnails and waveforms on: ______fps

thumbnails and waveforms off: ______fps

thanks

To me they don't affect framerate significantly (if at all) but, unless I zoom-in to video frame level, thumbnails in video track are distracting and confusing (put cursor in the mid of thumbnail and see the difference between what's on thumbnail and what the real frame is :-). Also envelopes are much cleaner without thumbnails, and it's easier on the eyes overall.
For video event, seeing just the first frame (and maybe the last) is often enough.

But seeing waveform is important, if just to quickly spot parts of conversation or beats of music bed.

Alexei

There is no real gain in disabling thumbnails or waveforms as far as getting a faster 'real time' higher frame rate in the preview window. A best maybe you'll pick up one or two frames more per second. Not worth the bother in my opinion.

There is no real gain in disabling thumbnails or waveforms as far as getting a faster 'real time' higher frame rate in the preview window. A best maybe you'll pick up one or two frames more per second. Not worth the bother in my opinion. I just tried it again on my super fast system

off average 27.4 with typical filter load, on averaged 26.7.

Personally, I consider the thumbnail previews one of the best features in Vegas--since you can zoom in and out so quickly and easily when splitting and don't have to use the trimmer.

Premier shows the first and last frame as you requested. However, I really appreciated the graphical view in Vegas when I started working on Premier and turned on the icon view (which is disabled by default). Premier would take between 30 to 45 seconds to draw the screens which made using graphical icons unusable. Later, I was able to switch back to Vegas and couldn't believe how much quicker, and graphical, it was.

I would be curious to hear what kind of machine you are working on where the graphics are slowing it down.