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For Aussie Viewers
If it’s of any interest to Australian Vegas users you can see the biggest project we have ever done in Vegas go to air Sat 10th Dec at 2PM Aust Eastern Time on Network TEN. Look for Wakakirri National Story Festival ‘Search for a National Winner’ Tasmania and the NT might be at different times.
All done in Vegas 6.0c with the addition of Particle Illusion and Titlemotion Pro. Very complex audio mix done in Vegas and SForge. The bulk of the audio came from venue feeds and an amazing amount of it had stereo phase problems that blew the signals right off our phase and correlation meters. All this was fixed using Nick Whitehurst’s vst c superstereo plugin with a vst wrapper so we could use it in Vegas and SF.
220 hours shot all over Australia by us in 16:9 plus material drawn from 3000 hours of various footage that ranged from horrible to half decent. Vegas handled it all without a hiccup. Currently one Pentium D is holding fifty-six hours of the final footage cull out of which the two hour TV special has been edited. This particular workstation was beaten to death non stop sixteen to twenty hours a day for close to twelve weeks and never suffered one hang or crash. It slowed down a few times but a re-start solved this behaviour. The final two hour show has over 4500 clips with many of them carrying filters and plugs so it’s not surprising that occasionally the old girl slowed down.
To put it mildly there were a few nay sayers who thought that Vegas could not handle a project of this magnitude. Amongst them there is now a new respect for software few in the television industry considered or understood.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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good on ya!
will watch out for it – though i rarely watch anything these days on aus tv from sheer embarrasment….
good luck,
leslie
ps. what was it shot on? did 10 ask what you were editing on? will they finally solve the tc entry problems in 7?
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Hi Leslie ~
The majority of it, the stuff that we shot, was on DVC Pro 25 and some Pro 50, on Panasonic AJD-910’s with a bit of Sony Z1 here and there behind the scenes. Ten never asked what we were cutting on. They were happy with the quality so that’s all that mattered
All the multi-cam was switched via component on Sony BVS-3200CP and the rest was either component or SDI to firewire into Vegas and back out the same way to the master. The main thing is that they liked it and it passed the tech spec check first time. This being the first major program using multi-sourced material from a variety of sources, DVD, PAL, NTSC, MPEG1, VHS, Digital 8, Hi-8, Mini DV, DVCam etc that I have ever got through first time without some technical quibble on some aspect of some of the footage used. I found with Vegas with all its various built in color correction/level/gamma etc etc plugins that I was able to beat most of the non compliant footage into something that could be used, made life one helluva lot easier, thank you Vegas!
Re the timecode thing. Another annoying thing with Vegas, unless there is a way I have missed, is if you digitize free-run TC material into it reads the initial timecode fine and is accurate up to the first camera stop/start. Problem is instead of picking up the new free-run code on the next camera start it just increments onwards from the initial digitized code start. This makes picking synchronous points between two free-run cameras impossible… a right pain! So used to doing this in a linear suite that it seems a big step backwards when it’s not possible in an NLE.
Til later
Chris
CYV Productions
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many thanks for such a comprehensive breakdown. much appreciated.
great to read you knocked all the crap (hi8, vhs, etc.,) into shape on the first submission – i still remember having a game of ping-pong with sbs over 30sec of vhs (admittedly pretty bad) iin a 30min doco….
the timecode thing really, really, really, pisses me off no end. most of my work nowadays is cutting from edl’s, and it’s such a PAIN – are you listening sony!?
will try and pop in on my next trip to the smoke…. (pollution?) if i can afford the tolls…
all the best,and thanks again,
leslie
ps. happy xmas and all that humbug.
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Leslie ~
No worries!
Til later
Chris Young
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