Plugin "edit dialog box" missing

squattingdog wrote on 4/13/2016, 9:39 PM
Need some help from those in the know. When I select a plugin (such as Brightness and Contrast" and drag it to my video in the timeline, I can't see to figure out "why" the dialog box doesn't pop up any longer. It did at one point in time. So in other words, I am not able to further "edit" any settings on the plugin I select. How to I enable the dialog box?

Regards,
-sd;

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Grazie wrote on 4/14/2016, 1:10 AM
SD? What is it you CAN see? Do you see the PLUGIN Chain? The name of the FX? A screen grab would help muchly.

G

squattingdog wrote on 4/14/2016, 11:14 AM
A screen capture won't do any good. I'll try to explain. All my plugins are there. I can easily click on any of them just as you should be able to. The problem is when I select one such as brightness and contrast (as an example) and drag it to my timeline a "dialog box" used to pop up with sliders on it so I am able to adjust the intensity. That doesn't happen any more.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/14/2016, 11:23 AM
Holding Ctrl+Shift while opening Vegas will restore all default behavior.
You've probably got a pane hidden somewhere.

squattingdog wrote on 4/14/2016, 3:32 PM
No luck yet. If I drag the Brightness and Contrast plugin to my time time (as the screen capture depicts), it does make it brighter BUT I can't adjust it. Once upon a time I had a dialog box that allowed me to do so. If a window is hidden, I have no idea how to enable it.

I also uninstalled Sony Vegas (including the directories it leaves behind) and still have the same problem.

http://www.pbase.com/smokedaddy/image/163002280/original
Tom Pauncz wrote on 4/14/2016, 3:51 PM
Alt+Tab cycles thru' open windows, whether you can see them or not. You may find it that way - if it's actually open.
Tom
squattingdog wrote on 4/14/2016, 4:05 PM
Thanks Tom but I understand what Alt+tab does in Windows. That's not the problem.
OldSmoke wrote on 4/14/2016, 4:13 PM
Have you tried pressing ALT+D+D? That will restore the windows layout. You have deleted the programs folder where Sony VP was installed but sure missed the hidden folders in your user account, that is where the windows layouts are stored.

Anyways, give the ALT+D+D a try. What you are missing is the "Video Event FX" tab. Did you move it to another monitor that is no longer connected?

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vkmast wrote on 4/14/2016, 4:28 PM
Just to confirm, did you try to reset as suggested in post # 4?
squattingdog wrote on 4/14/2016, 5:20 PM
Just to update;

Yes, I have tried ALL suggestions mentioned above (more than once). For the second time, I also uninstalled SVP v13 and all of my registered plugins. I also navigated to the program files directory for SVP and deleted everything that the uninstall program didn't remove. I still don't have the box pop up that allows me to adjust the setting that are related to the plugin that I drag to my timeline.

-SD:?
dxdy wrote on 4/14/2016, 5:31 PM
Could it be the edit window is open, but has migrated off the bottom of the screen? Seems I ran into this once a long time ago, don't remember how I fixed it.
dxdy wrote on 4/14/2016, 5:34 PM
I see you are working in 32 bit. Have you tried it with an 8 bit project?
john_dennis wrote on 4/14/2016, 5:38 PM
Stranger things than this have happened with interactions between on-die video hardware, drivers and operating systems. Here is a past example. I would look twice at drivers, including chipset drivers. The latest [I]may not[/I] be the best. After I found a driver that worked, intel broke it in the next update and I had to stay on the one that worked for quite a while. Sorry, can't help you with Windows 10. I'm not going there until I refresh hardware in the fall.
squattingdog wrote on 4/14/2016, 6:40 PM
Got it figured out. thanks to this video;



... at 2:23 in the video explains what happened. In any case, thanks for all the suggestions.

-SD:
john_dennis wrote on 4/14/2016, 6:41 PM
@ SD

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As I understand your issue, you see the "Video Event fX" Dialog box but you do not see the adjustment sliders underneath the individual fXs that you select.

Do you also see the "Plug-In Chooser" dialog box?
john_dennis wrote on 4/14/2016, 6:53 PM
"Watch the dock!" said the boater.
vkmast wrote on 4/15/2016, 3:18 AM
Glad you found the solution. Just wondering why a reset (including deleting cached data) did not "restore all default behavior" for you.
john_dennis wrote on 4/15/2016, 9:18 AM
I looked at this scenario this morning and found that when a Video Event fX window is docked into a pane or hidden under the Taskbar, neither Alt,D,D, selecting a saved user layout or resetting to Vegas Pro "out-of-the-box" defaults restores the position.
squattingdog wrote on 4/15/2016, 11:38 AM
John ... like you outlined, none of those worked for me. I thought it was really odd that when I uninstalled everything (including the directories left behind that weren't removed and my plugins) that I still had the same problem. There must be some configuration file "somewhere else" that saved the settings, dunno, don't care anymore. <g>
vkmast wrote on 4/15/2016, 12:03 PM
Odd. The reset done according to the SCS KB article still works for me in both cases john_dennis mentions. The layout options do not. Tested with VPro 12b770 and 13b453.
Anyway, the main thing is the solution was found. As John said, "stranger things than this have happened."
And, "reinstalling keeps pretty much all the old settings."

john_dennis wrote on 4/15/2016, 2:41 PM
My wife thinks I have dementia, so I leave the recorder on all the time. In this case, I recorded myself attempting to recover a docked Event fX dialog box from a user-docked position. The Track fX dialog acts the same way. It's probably the same software module.

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vkmast wrote on 4/15/2016, 3:26 PM
Thanks for the video. That's exactly what I get as well, if I ignore this: "You should see a window that asks "Do you want to reset all preferences to default values?" Place a checkmark next to "Delete all cached application data" and then click Yes."
john_dennis wrote on 4/15/2016, 3:45 PM
I found that one has to hold Control + Shift and double click on the actual application. Double-clicking on a shortcut on the Taskbar brings up a User Account Control dialog box (that Open Broadcaster Software won't capture) but not the reset check box that you described.

Doing the reset placed the Event fX back into a central, visible location.
vkmast wrote on 4/15/2016, 4:03 PM
I apologize for coming back once more. The workflows I tested were (as per SCS KB # 2744)
1. pressing Ctrl+Shift while double-clicking on the program's icon (in All Programs) to launch it. No checkmark to delete cached data. Result: As in "Video Here" above.
2. pressing Ctrl+Shift while double-clicking on the program's icon (in All Programs) to launch it. Placed checkmark to delete cached data. Result: Default behavior restored.
john_dennis wrote on 4/15/2016, 4:09 PM
"All Programs" is key. Control+Shift + Double-Clicking on a shortcut on the Taskbar doesn't present the check box dialog box. There must be something special about launching from the Taskbar.

My wife is correct.