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FX Packages for Vegas
I am new to Vegas Pro with versions 8 and 9. I am coming from 18 years editing on NewTek’s VideoToaster.
My question is about FX Packages that work well with Vegas, provide the best quality and results. Pacakges in question are Magic Bullett Suite 2009, NewBlueFX, ProDAD, Tinderbox 1-4 and BorisFX. Which one would you suggest, recommend and what you use?
Thanks.
Ken Bennett
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You can do so much with Vegas Pro that I don’t see why you would need more FX. What you can’t do, best to do with After FX. But then again it’s just my opinion.
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I use newblue, prodad, and magic bullet without issues. Boris works but it does not work internally to vegas.
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> You can do so much with Vegas Pro that I don’t see why you would need more FX
You can’t do Motion Tracking, Corner Pinning, Motion Stabilization, Rotoscoping, proper Chroma keying with Spill Suppression and Matte Choker, Motion Keying, Wire Remover, Particle System (Rain, Snow, Sparks, etc.) the list goes on and on (and that was only some of what Boris RED can do).
Yes, Vegas Pro can do much more than most NLE’s right out-of-the-box but there is still so much more that you can do with plug-ins. Probably the most requested one being motion tracking which saves a whole lotta manual keyframing when tracing an object.
~jr
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> Boris works but it does not work internally to vegas.
I’m not sure why you would think that. Boris FX is a plug-in to Vegas just like all of the other plug-ins. Boris RED, FX, and Graffiti all come as both standalone and as plugins for Sony Vegas.
~jr
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‘I’m not sure why you would think that. Boris FX is a plug-in to Vegas just like all of the other plug-ins. Boris RED, FX, and Graffiti all come as both standalone and as plugins for Sony Vegas.’
Do you mean that Boris FX works for you as a plug-in into Vegas Pro 9. My Vegas 9 still doesn’t recognize Boris FX or Graffitti.
And Boris FX plugged into Vegas 8 Pro can only see one frame, meaning that things like stabilization require a special trick before it works in Vegas.Theo
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> Do you mean that Boris FX works for you as a plug-in into Vegas Pro 9. My Vegas 9 still doesn’t recognize Boris FX or Graffitti.
Yes, but this may be a side-effect of my having built a new Windows 7 partition and I only have Vegas Pro 9.0 on it. I selected Vegas Pro 8.0 when I installed Boris and it correctly found my Vegas Pro 9.0 installation. I bet if I had Vegas Pro 8 it would have found that instead. All you have to do is copy the BorisXXX.dll files that are in the Vegas Pro 8.0\Video Plug-Ins folder over to the Vegas Pro 9.0\Video Plug-Ins folder and restart Vegas.
> And Boris FX plugged into Vegas 8 Pro can only see one frame, meaning that things like stabilization require a special trick before it works in Vegas.
This is a limitation of Vegas Pro with every plug-in in the world. I wish Sony would fix this. It’s not the fault of Boris. Nothing that plugs into Vegas can see more than one frame. Luckily, there is a workaround by loading the media in Boris.
~jr
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‘All you have to do is copy the BorisXXX.dll files that are in the Vegas Pro 8.0\Video Plug-Ins folder over to the Vegas Pro 9.0\Video Plug-Ins folder and restart Vegas.’
Whoooo, that works! Thanks!!
Theo
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Thanks for all the information.
Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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> Whoooo, that works! Thanks!!
You’re welcome. Now go complain to Boris that they need to “officially” support Vegas Pro 9.0! 🙁
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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