Applying filter to Video Output FX but not subtitles

[John Rofrano]

[Angelo Mike] “Apparently, it’s been around since well before Vegas 10.”

I agree but the post you linked to was not talking about that. Those posts were from 2002 back in the days of Vegas Video 3.0 which did not have this feature.

I did a little investigating that this feature was introduced in Vegas 6.0 back in 2005! I am totally amazed that no has mentioned this behavior before in 8 years!!!

~jr

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[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski]

One thing could be totally revolutionary in Vegas. If you could create something like video bus (analogically to audio bus). You could group events and route them to buses and add effects to these buses.

It could be an extreme help when color grading. Imagine grouping events according to scene lighting conditions etc and then change effect parameters dynamically.

But this is just a digression.

[John Rofrano]

[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski] ” One thing could be totally revolutionary in Vegas. If you could create something like video bus (analogically to audio bus). You could group events and route them to buses and add effects to these buses.”

I have suggested this to Sony. I think it’s an outstanding idea. I could have used this feature on numerous occasions.

Please submit it to Sony’s Product Suggestion page. The more people who request it, the better change of them implementing it.

~jr

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[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski]

I just did it.

[Angelo Mike]

What is a video bus?

[John Rofrano]

[Angelo Mike] “What is a video bus?”

That’s just it… they don’t exist!!! (Except for the one Master Video Bus)

but imagine this…

Audio Buses allow you to route your audio track to a bus that you can then add FX to. For example, if I route 3 audio tracks to the same bus and I add Reverb to the bus, all 3 tracks now have Reverb AND they are controlled by the same FX instance so if I tweak the parameters, all 3 tracks get the same tweak.

Now imaging if there were Video Buses and I could create a bus and add color correction to it and then assign certain tracks to that bus. Then all of the tracks would instantly have the same color correction. If I change the color correction on the bus, it is likewise reflected in all 3 tracks.

It would be an awesome way manage video FX’s more efficiently just like we do with audio FX. The same would be true for gain. You could bring several tracks up from black just by routing them to the same video bus and adjusting the opacity on the bus. No NLE has anything like this and there are lots of uses for it.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Angelo Mike]

[John Rofrano] “Audio Buses allow you to route your audio track to a bus that you can then add FX to. For example, if I route 3 audio tracks to the same bus and I add Reverb to the bus, all 3 tracks now have Reverb AND they are controlled by the same FX instance so if I tweak the parameters, all 3 tracks get the same tweak.

Now imaging if there were Video Buses and I could create a bus and add color correction to it and then assign certain tracks to that bus. Then all of the tracks would instantly have the same color correction. If I change the color correction on the bus, it is likewise reflected in all 3 tracks.

It would be an awesome way manage video FX’s more efficiently just like we do with audio FX. The same would be true for gain. You could bring several tracks up from black just by routing them to the same video bus and adjusting the opacity on the bus. No NLE has anything like this and there are lots of uses for it.”

So, isn’t the feature we all found out about a video bus? What’s the difference between what you said and the master video bus? That you can’t control which tracks go on the master video bus? Because you don’t have to use the very top track for this to work. You can put it two or ten tracks down. Yeah, you can’t merely assign which tracks go to the bus, but you can change effects for any video track underneath the sort of master track.

[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski]

but… let’s imagine routing groups of events (not only tracks) into buses. This is what would be a real kick.

[John Rofrano]

Yea, the behavior we just observed is a lot like having video buses.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Norman Black]

Interesting, and sad, thing is that Vegas actually has to support the multiple video bus mechanism internally because of support for nested projects (veg). Each project (veg) has it’s own separate single bus that video tracks are mixed into. So a veg with an imported veg effectively has two buses. A shame that Sony does not expose this to us in a more general manner with user video buses.