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frustrated not with sony but with everyone telling me NOT to use sony!
I may not be much of a videographer or video editing engineer (if such a title even exists) but learning on my own I am doing the best I can. I am so sick and tired of people telling me that I won’t get any better video production output until I leave Sony Vegas alone and use one of the other “more professional” software packages.
I believe that what I have been able to do up to now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QT6ymazYt0even if it sucks has less to do with the software and more to do with my lack of editing skills.
If there is anyway I can blend some of the “other guys” software packages into Sony Vegas, please let me know!Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
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I’ve heard people say that too, but I think 99.9% of what makes a video good is the artist, not the tools he uses. I’m sure Picasso could make a better picture with a $2 box of crayons than an average joe off the street who’s got the best paint in all of France.
I think the video looks good. It’s better than what I could do so far. The soft fades you have in there look especially nice.
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I use Vegas’s interface, but render uncompressed and then use another programme to render to mp4.
I do find Vegas’s offerings confusing and frustrating. There are dozens of them, but all are restrictive/not the best. Many do not let you make your own choices, and those that do are not using the best coders, so you get sub-par results, or stuff that looks bad in WMP or WMC. IME some fail completely. Sony YUV for instance has given me only Audio on several computers and OSs, from Xp to Win 7 64. it simply should not be there….but hey it’s Sony.
I also render interlaced, then let “that other programme” go to progressive and take care of interlacing. Why? Because Vegas has that charming “smart resample” ….thing. Other renderers do not. So I don’t have to remember to kill it with every new project and clip that I add.
So. What I find with Vegas is that it offers a lot of choices, which are confusing to start with. Then it tries to make those choices “simplified” by only offering certain parameters, the “match” that choice. That just adds to the frustration, because you end up with letterboxing, pixellation, blurring…..it’s the Smart Resample thing all over again.
They are trying to stop you having to learn, but there is is no toothpaste answer, and so many people end up confused, or making crappy videos and wondering why.
Nick
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[Nick White] “Sony YUV for instance has given me only Audio on several computers and OSs, from Xp to Win 7 64. it simply should not be there….but hey it’s Sony.”
Don’t blame Sony. I have no problems playing YUV files with VLC.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html“I also render interlaced, then let “that other programme” go to progressive and take care of interlacing.”
Which program is that? I render from 1400×1080 60i to Sony’s Internet 1280×720-30p preset and have no problems.
You can see examples of some of my work at https://www.stclaircollege.ca/healthsciences/ and https://www.stclaircollege.ca/alumni/aod-past.html
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