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Vegas Live Capture and Presentation
Been asked to record a live production and then project it onto a screen at a “post party” a half hour after the production is over. Should I use a titler while capturing with two cams and a video mixer? Or should I throw the raw footage on the Vegas timeline, add titles and then project the timeline from a laptop thru a projector?
First time I’ll be doing this…sure could use some advice!
Steve
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4 Replies
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A mixer could certainly save time. But I recently used one for the first time on a 3 camera shoot (where I also ran tape as a backup), and then found I had to reedit from the tape for several different reasons. I didn’t like the live edits in all case and two cameras really needed color correcting in post.
If you don’t use the mixer, can you record direct to hard disk to save time not having to capture?
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How long is the production? 1/2 hour is not much time unless it’s a really short production or you only have a couple of titles and don’t mind relying on PTT.
When taping our Church services, we live edit and direct capture (i.e. when the service is over, it’s in the computer ready for adding to the Vegas timeline). The ONLY way I’d output for watching in that short of a period of time would be doing a Print To Tape. If you’re only adding a couple of titles, rendering time whould be very minimal. One thing you could do is a PTT and leave it on the count-down screen until time for the production to start.
Edward Troxel
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Steve,
I don’t think I’d even use Vegas for this. Use a mixer and record live to a DVD recorder and use that to play back. Vegas is not good at playing back live from the timeline without hiccups here and there, even on the most beefy of computers. Or — if you do want to playback from computuer, use the vidcap program to playback as if you were printing to tape. Don’t try it from the timeline.
td
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Thank you all for some good ideas and advice.
Steve
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