waltervolpatto wrote:Cosmin, sorry that the software does not do what you need/want. Posting silly GIF does not make your point more valid: it make you look less than a professional and more of a teenager.
I know EXACTLY how much I seem like a kid throwing a tantrum. I'm really tired, man. This is YEARS of building up frustration, first with Vegas, then with the dev team, then with the catastrophic bugs and the dev team, then with every collaboration where people scoffed at me for not using "the software that everyone uses", THEN with actually trying to move away from it, after I realized the direction of the software is not going anywhere. And ultimately, it's not the software that pushed me over the edge in terms of my frustration and anger. It's some of the people here. Actually, most of the people I've interacted with on this forum.
I imagine they look like this:
waltervolpatto wrote:there are more than 10 million downloads of the last couple of versions, may be 1 million users. Honestly, you are campaigning for a feature that you value a lot, and that is ok, but please, try to be respectful of all the other ideas, including the fact that this software might just not work as you personally want to.
I can't be respectful of people that tell me "shut up, we don't need your feature", when it's made very plain that these are the types of people who would have opposed Power Windows tracking, saying that hey, one can key it manually already. When you know something can be done way easier, without sacrificing anything, you can't just accept the stupid way of doing it and just be okay with it. At least, I can't. It's not my nature to regress.
waltervolpatto wrote:yes, there are plenty of features i wish [...] screaming and kicking never got me anything more than a cookie.
At this point, I'll take the friggin' cookie.
waltervolpatto wrote:if you "fear that you're losing it", by any means, choose another software.
Well, I can't, can I? I need to migrate from Vegas Pro (which I was happy with since 2004) to something modern, closer to "an industry standard". Premiere Pro (which I hate) seems easier on paper, since I already know the basics and I'm quite proficient with AE and Audition (which I love). But everyone seems to be moving away from Premiere these days and migrating to Davinci, kind of like how they did back in 2013 with FCPX, when everyone moved to Premiere.
Both options mean fundamentally changing the way I do things (a way I have fought to defend and to develop). Which wouldn't be so bad if I wouldn't lose so much freedom and power, being forced to rely on other software for various things that very well could have been done directly in my NLE of choice. It's like being forced to build a PC from parts using ski gloves.
Why did Vegas Pro never develop into an industry standard back in the early 2000s, what with its revolutionary, powerful interface? Oh yeah. Sony couldn't be bothered to actually INVEST in their then recently acquired product, instead focusing on making a complete package for prosumers that bought Handycams and wanted to author DVDs.