1 Day in and I have some issues

Help
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My primary need is to organize video footage so I can surface clips from old projects to use in new projects. I’m using sidecar tagging so it doesn’t break an existing edit when the filenames get changed. I’m using 6.9.2 on Windows

In no particular order:
#1 If I search for media and it lists a file I haven’t previously opened, no thumbnail has been generated. It should generate it then and there.

#2 The video player should remember it’s last state. So if I mute the audio, it should stay muted when I play the next video. It would also be nice if there was a keyboard shortcut for start/stop when I have auto play turned off. I usually have autoplay turned off because I don’t want to hear the audio each time I click on a thumbnail to tag it.

#3 Tag color behavior isn’t intuitive compared to other apps I’ve used. If a tag group has a default color and I move a tag into it, it doesn’t change. I’m often creating tags on the fly in the Add/Remove Tags dialog and they default to the collected tags section, which makes sense. But, when I go to organize them into other groups, I would expect them to change into that color. Even so, if I manually change that tag to match its group, the colors don’t propagate down to the files because the color for the tags are saved in the sidecars. I can’t see a use case where I’d want the tag on a file to be different from how it’s set in the Tag Library.

#4 Remember the window state between sessions. I would like it to return to the way I left it with the folder trees open in the same position, same folder open, etc.

I’m hoping I’m missing some settings or workflow tweaks. Before I make the jump to Pro, I was hoping to get these questions answered.

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I have discovered I can set a location to open at startup. I think restoring my last session would still be preferable.

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Hey @Eric , and thanks for your feedback! We will try to integrate some of your point in the next releases. Regarding the play/pause shortcut, you can activate the global keyboard shortcuts in the settings of the app and use ctrl/cmd+p for this. If the focus is in the player you can use the space key.
Currently we are not planing to save the sessions, because TagSpaces is intended to be used with many windows, which make managing a global session not an easy task.
Regarding the color of the tags in a tag-group you can apply the tag-group color to all the tags there in the “edit tag group” dialog.

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Awesome thanks!

That makes sense about the sessions and how it’s designed to work with multiple windows.

I understand how I can change all the tag colors in a tag-group with that edit tag group setting. But tags that are already applied to media don’t change colors. I thought reindexing a folder might update it, but the colors don’t change unless I delete the tag and reapply it. It’s kind of leading me to ditch using colors and just make them all the same.