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Long Distance Editing
I thought maybe some of the experts here might like a crack at this problem. A business partner and I want to edit a movie we have made and we want to edit on two different computers, both having Vegas loaded (V6d). He is to do the rough edit, and I am to perform the finished edit, audio sweetening, foley and grading, as I have the Magic Bullet Movie Looks plugin and Soundforge. We were thinking of tackling this endeavor in this manner:
1. We both capture all the tapes, using the same file names and capture properties on both computers.
2. My partner, after finishing the rough edit, sends me a hard drive with the .veg files, the clips he used and any printed notes he might have about pacing, what his thoughts for editing the scene was, etc.
3. I do all the finished edit, grading, foley and audio sweetening, save each scene as a separate .veg file on my own hard drive, then nest the .veg files together in Vegas to make the finished film.
Is this at all possible? We’re both pretty accomplished in what we do, but this is the biggest project either of us have tackled: a fifty-six scene movie. I don’t know if the .veg files are at all portable, so can someone advise us if this is a logical course of action? -
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One easy possibility would be: person 1 captures all footage and finishes his part and then saves the veg file to an external harddisk while selecting the option COPY MEDIA WITH PROJECT
Person 2 receives the external harddisk, copies all the files to his internal harddisk and finishes the editing.
Only when person 1 uses nested veg files, there could be a problem, since the footage of the nested veg files is not automaticly saved. So he either has to save this footage manually or use Production Assistant, which will also save the footage of the nested files automaticly.
Theo
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I agree with Theo and, in fact, you CANNOT both capture the tapes because the capture is not frame accurate which means even if you started your tape decks at the beginning, there is a chance of the captured frames being off.
It is best for one person to capture and edit and then physically copy everything to an external drive and mail it to you for the finishing.
~jr
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Thanks to both Theo and John…both good ideas. Now we know how to proceed. I think we’re going to go the hard drive route with the .veg files and all the videos used in them, so that we don’t both have to capture all the tapes. As a followup, I think I’m going to use YouSendIt as a means to keep the producer updated on the edits on each scene. I’ve done this before on a docu-drama, and worked fairly well.
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