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First Time Sony Vegas 6 User
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[jeditdv] “And it’s really possible in Vegas too. As Peter said, there’s a readout showing you exactly how long a transition is. You can also fine tune the length by moving the event using the 1 or 3 keys on the numberpad (which will move the event one frame at a time). However, the best solution may be to use a script. With a script, you could actually have it pop up a box, accept a timecode, and then move the event so that it overlaps the previous event by that specific amount.”
Where can I find that script? Also the loading time for Vegas 6 is so slow…
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[Peter Wright] “Now, regarding rendering times – these are almost certainly caused by the fact that you are using an unusual format for both source and output – possibly there needs to be decompression and recompression in this process. Others may know more about this, so feel free to sdd comments …..”
It’s just a video compressed in PicVideo M-JPEG 3 … decompressing MJPEG videos are really fast… if you ask me..
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[Terje A. Bergesen] “The only way to do this in Media Studio would have been to first create the PIP (small) video with all the transitions and then insert it into a new project with the main picture. A pain. In Vegas it was dead easy and accomplished in a couple of hours. I understand that this may be fixed in version 8 of Media Studio. I do not think I will go back though, the way Vegas works is just so much easier. Applying a 1 second transition is in fact a lot faster in Vegas than it is in Media Studio simply because I know exactly how long the transition will be when I overlap the two videos. Doing the same in Ulead means adding the 1 second transition and snap the videos to it. If I want to change the duration of the transition I will have to change the length of the transition then snap the two (or possibly just one) videos to it again. In Vegas I just make the overlap a second longer. Far easier.
I find it odd that the rendering time is slower in Media Studio than it is in Vegas. I do not find that there is any significant difference. Can you please describe a little bit about what you are doing in the project and what you are rendering to?”
The loading time of Vegas 6 is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7 Try Media Studio Pro 8 I think it will be finished… or not… and Trimming in Vegas 6 is such a pain… unlike in Media Studio Pro 7. I created a 25 second trailer in just 30 minutes…
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[jeditdv] “Rendering *can* be slow but is not necessarily so. There’s some things you can do wrong that will slow down rendering speeds. There’s also some effects you can add that are really slow. But, overall, rendering speed is NOT bad.”
The start-up speed is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7.
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[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “Where can I find that script?”
I use Excalibur (the Overlap Media) tool but I’m sure there are others available.
[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “Also the loading time for Vegas 6 is so slow…”
Go to Options – Preferences and turn off the Media Manager. Then it will load in about the same amount of time as Vegas 5 and earlier. Of course, then you can’t use the media manager.
Edward Troxel
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[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “and Trimming in Vegas 6 is such a pain”
Not sure what you mean by this. I find trimming very easy. Just drop the clip on the timeline and start chopping. (I generally don’t use the trimmer unless I have a specific reason for doing so).
Edward Troxel
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[Juan Karlo de Guzman] “The start-up speed is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7.”
Ok, you mentioned this three times so I’ll answer it twice. Vegas 6 has a new feature called the Media Manager which is a powerful database for organizing your media. When you start Vegas, it must also start all of the database services (basically, SQL Server Lite) which is what is taking the time. If you are not making use of the Media Manager, you can turn this off by going to Options – Preferences, scroll down to the bottom of the list, and there is an entry which reads: “Enable Media Manager (requires Vegas restart)”. Uncheck that option and your start-up times will be much faster.
Edward Troxel
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I used to have a electric radio control car called a RC10. I have a real 2 seater sports car and that little RC10 could jump off the line faster than my real car could. It even got about 30 feet in front until I rocketed past it at about the 35 foot mark. My 11.5 inch wide tires crushed that thing in the process and that was about it. I guess the bigger and better car just took a bit more energy to get moving. However, if you were impatient or jumped to conclusions and turned your back at the 30 foot mark you would have voted for the toy to win. You would have been wrong.
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The loading time of Vegas 6 is far slower than Media Studio Pro 7 Try Media Studio Pro 8 I think it will be finished… or not…
Others have commented on the startup time, but I will add mine to it. I only do amateur stuff, so I do not need the Media Manager. Startup time for Vegas is therefore every bit as fast for me as it is with ULead.
and Trimming in Vegas 6 is such a pain… unlike in Media Studio Pro 7
This is another area where I think one could say that you are wrong, and simply do not know Vegas. As I said, I have used Ulead Media Studio for a long time, and scrubbing and trimming in Media Studio is a pain compared to Vegas. Both the Vegas trimmer and trimming directly on the timeline is far easier with Vegas than with ULead. In Ulead I found that I all the time used the mouse to cut a clip, and then forgot to uncheck the cut button, which means that the next time I went to move a clip I inadvertently cut it, easy to undo with Ctrl+Z, but pressing Ctrl+Z all the bloody time is a real pain. Never happens in Vegas.
Also, don’t get me started about scrubbing.
Finally, cropping in ULead is not hard, it is nigh impossible. The key-framer window is so small as to be completely useless, pre-viewing on a smaller-than-stamp sized window is not feasible. This is another one of the things ULead has been made aware of for years, and rumor has it that it is fixed in v8, but it should have been fixed in v6.
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[jeditdv] “Not sure what you mean by this. I find trimming very easy. Just drop the clip on the timeline and start chopping. (I generally don’t use the trimmer unless I have a specific reason for doing so).”
In Media Studio Pro 7, you can trim the video even if it means milliseconds…
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