MoviePlus X7 Wishlist

[AlfredP]

Now that MoviePlus X6 has been released, here's a new MoviePlus X7 wishlist. If there's anything you would like to see in the next release, please post here.

If there are any suggestions from the previous wishlist which didn't make it into X6, please feel free to repost them here if you'd still like to see them implemented in X7.

Alfred

[PeterPanino]

In the Export dialog, there should be a checkbox "Standby after Exporting" or similar. I prefer Standby (also called "Sleep") over Shutdown because Shutdown does not always work due to some programs preventing the system shutdown.

[RicRoller]

Originally Posted by PeterPanino In the Export dialog, there should be a checkbox "Standby after Exporting" or similar. I prefer Standby (also called "Sleep") over Shutdown because Shutdown does not always work due to some programs preventing the system shutdown.

Running on a laptop PC, you would also have the option of "Hibernate"

So, the user could be offered a choice of any of the available methods (IMO MoviePlus would need to interrogate the PC's power manangement settings to see if sleep or hibernate were supported before offering them...).

(a) Do nothing
(b) Beep or play a sound
(b) Stand by / sleep
(c) Hibernate
(d) Shut down (or at least attempt to...).

Regards,
Richard

[PeterPanino]

Originally Posted by RicRoller Running on a laptop PC, you would also have the option of "Hibernate" So, the user could be offered a choice of any of the available methods (IMO MoviePlus would need to interrogate the PC's power manangement settings to see if sleep or hibernate were supported before offering them...). (a) Do nothing (b) Beep or play a sound (b) Stand by / sleep (c) Hibernate (d) Shut down (or at least attempt to...). Regards, Richard

Serif developers should also add:

(e) Custom command-line

This would allow the user to execute a custom action - very useful!

[Eugene Rohland]

Third party plug-in support, PLEASE. I need to buy NewBlueFX modules but what is the point if I can't plug them into my video editor ?

One of Serif's closest competitors now has this facility. I don't want to use a competitor's software. I want to use Serif, but give us the tools !

[MikeR]

5.1 sound, smart HD rendering, better DVD/Blu-ray authoring (more flexibility, more menu layers).

[Gordon L]

I'd like to see more audio options. My wishlist (in order of desire):
Ability to see larger waveforms (as in Garageband for e.g). Reason: often low level but important sounds (such as breaths for speech editing) don't show at all.
More audio effects: Normalise would be No. 1 for me
Keyboard operated sound mixer panel, enabling 'live' mixes - preview a file and adjust audio channel as you listen.

Thanks and here's hoping...
G.

[ggrussell]

Would be nice to be able to mark chapters in Storyboard mode. I was working on a training video for my grand nephew. I placed text before each training exercise. Much easier to see these text clips in Storyboard mode.
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Also would be nice to have Guides in Menu Designer to line up buttons and/or Alignment tools.

[Gordon L]

How about some sort of 'Pack and go' option that would copy the MP file and all the associated clips, keeping a file structure intact. This would be v. useful for archiving.

See this thread: http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=111319

[Noddy656]

Can I suggest the addition of the following.
When importing media from "Rip CD" the window opens showing the track numbers - the default position is that every track is selected. Can a button be added to deselect every track - this would speed up selecting a single track. As things stand at present you have to untick every box then select the track you want - unnecessarily long winded! The alternative solution would be for the default position to show no track selected.

[Gordon L]

Noddy
I've never used this feature so I've just tried it - I see what you mean!

[techy8]

It appears as though MoviePlus remembers Folder locations and other settings globally. It would be far better if each PROJECT remembered it's own folder locations and settings for things such as PROXY FILES.

[techy8]

I would also like to see the ability to SCRUB the sound on the TIMELINE when you use the right & left arrow keys, this feature has been in Premiere for decades. VERY USEFUL for frame accurate sound editing.

[Jon White]

Originally Posted by techy8 It appears as though MoviePlus remembers Folder locations and other settings globally. It would be far better if each PROJECT remembered it's own folder locations and settings for things such as PROXY FILES.

Not if you use the same clip in more than one project.

[techy8]

Originally Posted by Jon White Not if you use the same clip in more than one project.

Yes I know that but please can you make it so that it keeps the project file locations with EVERY project. It would save an awful lot of fingerwork and discovering that proxy files have been saved in tyhe wrong location.

[ggrussell]

1: Need a way to break apart text string so we can animate letters separately. I wanted to rotate each letter on vertical axis like Avenger Trailer.

2: Preset text is great, but need a way to copy the preset color, lines and FX filters WITHOUT changing the font. Perhaps a modifier like Cntl-click or something. This would allow users to see the different options using their font of choice in preview.

[barryt]

Please please Please! The ability to SORT IMPORTED MEDIA BY DATE/TIME. You can sort files by practically everything else at the moment, but if you import a mix of stills and video clips there's no way of sorting them in DATE/TIME order so that they can simply be dragged onto the Storyboard to make an instant DVD which is in chronological order.
This is such an obvious omission that I think it should come out as a free patch to everyone who has paid a lot of money for X6!

[littlefish]

Import .mkv files, please.

[PeterPanino]

Dear Serif, please implement a semi-automatic procedure to edit an Audio Clip (be it linked or not) in an external audio editor (e.g. Wavelab). External audio editors could be configured by the user in Tools/Options. Then, when the user right-clicks a selected Audio Clip, in the context menu he selects 'Edit in Wavelab' to automatically load and edit the Audio Clip in Wavelab.

On the internal technical level, this could be achieved by:

1. The Audio Clip is exported as a temporary WAV file.

2. MP calls the audio editor with the temporary wav file on the command-line.

3. MP uses a well known callback function to be informed when the temporary wav file changes (i.e. when the audio editor saves the loaded file).

4. As soon as the temporary wav file has changed, MP automatically imports it and replaces the selected Audio Clip with the temporary wav file, so it can be reviewed in MP together with the video tracks.

This would be extremely useful as it would make the audio editing capabilities limitless!

[DrBob]

In reference to thread regarding file renaming between X6 and the actual file name. I would like to see a function in MoviePlus X7, which could simultaneously rename the file and update the project with its new name.