new Vegas Pro Production Assistant…

[Mike Kujbida]

When I first clicked on it, I thought “how nice of Sony to build this into Pro 9”.
Than I realized that they wanted (too much) money for it 🙁

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Price-wise, it’s less than Ultimate S, and does quite a bit more, not to mention that it has several similar features to Ultimate S.
It’s actually a very powerful, fast tool that doesn’t need to have Vegas open to do some of the work it does….

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Adam Rose esq.]

oh? I underestimated the functionality – pity there doesn’t seem to be a trial version……

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

pity there doesn’t seem to be a trial version……

What gives you the impression there isn’t?

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Adam Rose esq.]

couldn’t see a download / trial link anywhere……….

I had a look again after I posted. what am I missing?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

there isn’t a trial available *this morning.*
It’ll be there. 🙂
Waiting til after the big Vegas party tonight to release more information.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Steve Rhoden]

Does’nt seem like its too much money to me…Price
seems fitting for what it does.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Fotis Vassis]

I hope we get Ultimate S update for working with Vegas 9

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The Interactive Gourmet Experience

[John Rofrano]

> I hope we get Ultimate S update for working with Vegas 9

Hi Fotis,

We have Ultimate S Pro 4 working with Vegas Pro 9.0 in 32-bit and 64-bit mode and have been demoing it at NAB 2009 all this week. It is also backward compatible with Vegas Pro 8.0 and 8.1. We actually held off releasing the 8.1 64-bit update because we wanted to be sure that it worked in 9.0 64-bit as well. The update will be available for download before Vegas Pro 9.0 ships.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[John Rofrano]

> looks to be trying to steal the thunder of some other plugins like US, Excalibur & Veggie toolkit…..bit overpriced tho, considering less functionality on the surface

Sorry I didn’t see this thread earlier. I didn’t have time to check the forums while out at NAB 2009. (…and still catching my breath) 😉

Just to clear things up, Production Assistant is based on some of the Ultimate S technology and was create by VASST for Sony (hence the Powered by VASST logo on the box). It is specifically solving a different problem than US, Excalibur & Veggie toolkit. While the former are interactive tools or batch rendering tools, Production Assistant is all about hands-off process automation.

If you create standard format videos like daily shows or weekly shows or even same day events, Production Assistant can reduce hours of editing and assembly down to minutes. It pays for itself in the first day or two of use. It does this by allowing you to create templates with media slugs of your projects and then selecting a template and only the media that changes from project to project and it assembles a new project from the template substituting the real media for the slugs. We have already developed a workflow that was shown at the NAB Vegas Users Party last Monday night that creates skydiving same day event videos with only inserting the memory card and naming the folder to capture the media. The next thing you have is a complete project complete with intros, music, etc. ready to burn to DVD… totally hands off and fool proof!

Production Assistant also has process automation capabilities not found in other tools. You can create process workflows like adding network bugs or logos, then an 16:9 animated underlay to 4:3 media, then capturing representative thumbnails, etc. and save all of those steps as a preset workflow. Then with one click of a button process hundreds of files applying each process in the workflow and then rendering to multiple output formats. Once again saving hours of valuable editor’s time and paying for itself in the first couple of uses.

There will be quick start videos published on the Sony site once the product is available so you can see the workflows that this tool addresses. It does not negate the need for tools like Ultimate S or Excalibur. While it does contain some of the interactive tools from Ultimate S, it is all about hands-off automation which no other tool addresses.

Hope that helps clear things up. Feel free to ask more questions.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com