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Can Sony Vegas Pro be used or compared to the output produced by Final Cut Pro for professional use?
Vegas is a mature, full-featured NLE. I use it regularly for professional work from spots, to corporate video to feature films. I've also used it for semi-professional things like editing a video of my stepdaughter's choir concert for a Christmas DVD.
Here's where I run into problems. My producing partner is all about FCP. There's no clean way to export an ...
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If you are judging Vegas Pro audio editing on native effects than I don't think it has any edge over others.
I have been using the Pro version for about 18 months now and I find it pretty darn good overall. I am also learning Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS5.5, so far I think Vegas has the edge on the audio for sure.
However, are you aware that Vegas ...
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Let's first review the basics of green screen:
1) screen about 5 or more feet behind subject so it is out of focus from subject.
2) flat screen, no wrinkles.
3) flat lighting, no shadows, no hot spots.
4) subject can not wear green or wear shiny things or see through things.
Review Vegas Chroma Key: Once you engage the chroma key effect, use the eye ...
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I worked out a satisfactory solution to this problem. It involves adding the 'Computer RGB to Studio RGB' Video FX to each video track in your Vegas Studio project. This effects the rendered file and project quite a lot but appears normal when uploaded to Youtube:
Quicktime
Youtube
It's possible to disable the track Video FX whilst you work on your ...
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Can Sony Vegas Pro be used or compared to the output produced by Final Cut Pro for professional use?
The way you've phrased this question makes it meaningless. Of course you can use Vegas for professional and semi-professional work. Of course you can compare the output of Vegas with other professional production tools. The problem is that "professional and semi-professional work" is such a broad field that you will always be able to find some situation ...
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I use Vegas Pro, but I think this applies to the Movie Studio version as well. As far as I know there is no magic clean up button that removes the unused files from your folder. However, if you go to the 'project media' tab in Vegas, you will see reference icons of all the files that were used during your editing session including jpegs, and .wav files. This ...
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From the beginning.
Set your Vegas Project properties for 720 P (assuming you are using a 30 fps frame rate) you should be able to find the correct set up already as a template, otherwise take the closest thing and customize it. Adjust the audio tab to the best match to your sound track.
Next add your sound track to the Vegas Timeline.
Next add your ...
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I would go with a .mp4 format, if it is in HD, the AVCHD mp4 would be better compressed and better quality, but regular mp4 would be faster and compatible with more things, although I do believe that it is compatible with windows even without quicktime. I am not sure though if you can render AVCHD in sony vegas pro 8, I work out of both 9 and 10, but the ...
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I have seen some trainwrecks by combining Nikon .mov with Vegas Pro 10. After tech calls into both Nikon and Sony it was determined that my machine didn't have enough resources.
I need to upgrade from 32 bit to a 64 bit version of Win7, plus I need to go from a quad core to an i7, and from 4GB to 12 GB or better. I can use my Nikon files now but only if I ...
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You should be safe setting playback rate at 0.400. 59.94 is actually 60/1.001 and 23.976 is actually 24/1.001, so the 0.4 multiplier is technically exact. Switch off resample to be sure. Of course, how Vegas actually handles this internally is anybody's guess.
One way to test this would be to generate a frame sequence just containing an incremental numeral ...
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This can be done a couple of ways and which way really depends on the most appropriate blend to best support the image. You can either gradually fade a track to a lower volume using a volume envelope, or discreetly have it drop on a dime using the same tool.
Let's say I want to have the music drop 6 dB but not completely cut out so I can hear the dialogue ...
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Blender does have compositing capability, and can be used to do some of the stuff that AE does. It's free, but you have to learn how to use it, so how highly you value your time counts in the final equation.
If you want to see Blender in action as a compositor you can see the "Tears of Steel" short film made with Blender last year.
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Not sure if you are asking about rendering to edit, or rendering for output to Youtube...
Whilst Editing pretty much whatever your system is setup up for will be fine, most likely Mpeg-2 or DVCPROHD will get you by...
But if you are referring to uploading to youtube, your best bet will be H264 since that is what Youtube will convert it to anyway.
Here is ...
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Found it!
You can press the "J" key to play in reverse. Each time you hit the "J" it will jump a full speed up to x4. If you want to jump by speeds of .25x, hold the "K" button and hit "J". While it is play backwards, hitting the spacebar will jump you back to where you started playing, and hitting "K" will stop you where you are.
To adjust playback speeds ...
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Since your intentions seem a bit weird, I'll give a weird suggestion; if a video consists largely of a still image, then any decent compression algorithm will use almost no space in storing that length of time. So you'll notice if you go to "watch" a track someone's uploaded to YouTube with only album art for its image, the video loads very quickly.
This ...
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The smallest possible output is 0 bytes. Simply delete the video. Otherwise, it is going to depend on the bit-rates supported by whatever output format you want to use. Simply choose an output with the lowest possible bit-rate and number of frames and output.
Trying to get 40 hours in to 100Mb requires a .7kbps data rate though. You are unlikely to have ...
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HitFilmFX integrates nicely with Sony Vegas Pro 12. It is much cheaper than AE.
Take a look at Sony Vegas Pro 12 Suite. There is also Boris RED and Boris Continuum Complete for Sony Vegas, GenArts products, NewBlueFX...
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After Effects is an extremely powerful tool, not just because of the out of box abilities but also its integration with 3rd party plugins...In some degrees I could say it can compete with Nuke which is like 4k, and even more for Nuke X
In terms of Pro-sumer/ boarder-line Professional Software these two are in a league of their own, being both MAC and PC ...
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Many ways here:
You can render your video using Mainconcept renderer with one of the
Internet 4:3 SD templates
You can create your own render template that best meets the YouTube specs
You can upload your video w/o rendering, and let YouTube convert it for you (in this
case, you can not apply a watermark)
You can use free extension Video4YouTube
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I tried to replicate the issue last night with using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0, version 9.0 (b) build 92.
I engaged various text options under the Sony Media Generator: Simple Text, Rolling Text, and some legacy defaults. The only time I saw a Bounding Box was within the text pop up window where one has the option of placing text by dragging the ...
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I would try uploading the video to vimeo as well. Or, if you have your own website, uplaod it to there and create a simple page with an embedded player.
My experience is that YouTube sometimes adds a LOT of artifacts when it recompresses things. I've often experienced the problem you're having when I work with YouTube, but rarely with vimeo.
If Vimeo ...
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Vegas Pro 10 has two features that could help you out. Either using the Track Motion feature for the entire video track engaged with key frames, or the pan/crop feature for the shot itself engaged with key frames would allow for changes of size, shape, rotation, zooming, orientation (reverse, upside down) and such.
Here is a tutorial on Vegas (not sure of ...
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