Pre-SVP 12 installation questions

[Steve Rhoden]

Install Vegas 12 first, then uninstall version 11.

Your Vegas 11 layout is saved yes, and transferable, but
its not gonna work in Vegas 12. Just remember how you have
it in 11 and then recreate it.

Your plugins will be available in Vegas 12 after install, i
dont think there will be a need for you to reinstall any.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[John Rofrano]

[Ron Whitaker] “1) Should I uninstall SVP 11 first, or do I install 12 over 11?”

As Steve said, install Vegas Pro 12.0 first but I would only uninstall Vegas Pro 11.0 when you are absolutely sure that you don’t need to go back to it again.

[Ron Whitaker] “2) I like my layout in SVP 11. What’s the best way to preserve that?”

You can re-import your window layouts from Vegas Pro 11.0 into 12.0 (another reason not to uninstall VP11).

[Ron Whitaker] “3) After installing 12, will I need to reinstall Ultimate S, Film Looks, and other things I’ve installed?”

No you shouldn’t need to for the VASST plug-ins. Some OFX plug-ins might need to be re-installed depending on where they install themselves.

[Ron Whitaker] “4) Can someone explain how the Mask Templates and Mask Apply features work, also the new OFX FX via handles thingy?”

There are new mask tools that make masking a lot easier and you can also apply the Mask to just the FX. Like this:

You can also directly manipulate some of the parameters of certain OFX plug-ins right on the Vegas Preview Window like moving the position or pivot point of BCC Lens Flare 3D:

~jr

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

[Malcolm Matusky]

Useful thread, thanks’! I’m installing VP12 now. BTW, I recently finished reading “Vegas Pro 11 Editing Workshop” excellent manual for using Vegas Pro. How different is 12 from 11? is there a list of “upgrades” and instructions?

Cheers,

Malcolm

Malcolm
http://www.malcolmproductions.com

[John Rofrano]

[Malcolm Matusky] “How different is 12 from 11?”

Vegas Pro 12.0 build on 11.0 so everything you’ve learned for 11.0 is still applicable.

[Malcolm Matusky] “is there a list of “upgrades” and instructions?”

New Features in Version 12.0
Video

• Added new video plug-ins:
• LAB Adjust allows you to manipulate colors in the Lab (L*a*b* or L*, a*, b*) color space.
• Color Match allows you to automatically match the color between clips.
• Layer Dimensionality allows you to add depth to video and images that contain alpha transparency.
• Added Lightness/a/b histogram view, allowing you to analyze your video in the Lab (L*a*b* or L*, a*, b*) color space.
• Added Set to 0% velocity to the video velocity envelope point shortcut menu.
• Hold Shift (for trim) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift (for adjacent trim) while dragging an event edge to ignore event grouping for fast J and L cuts.
• Added tools for creating rectangular and oval masks and for moving, scaling, rotating, and feathering masks in the Event Pan/Crop plug-in.
• You can now use the Apply to FX control in the Event Pan/Crop plug-in to mask video event effects.
• You can now pair stereoscopic 3D subclips at the track level.
• Additional multistream 3D formats are now supported.
• Added support for automatic 3D pairing of single-stream clips from the PMW-TD300, PMW-F3 with 3D Link option, and cameras that append _L and _R to left- and right-eye clip names.
• You can create video proxy files in the Project Media window for optimized editing and playback.
• Added support for the new OpenFX GPU render extension for third party GPU-accelerated effects.

Audio

• You can now preview audio through supported AJA and BlackMagic Design video preview devices.
• Added 64-bit Gracenote support.
• Added support for 64-bit Noise Reduction (Audio Restoration, Click and Crackle Removal, Clipped Peak Restoration, and Noise Reduction), Acoustic Mirror, élastique Timestretch, and Wave Hammer plug-ins.

Workflow

• Expanded edit mode provides fast, accurate event trimming: the in and out frames are displayed in a split-screen Video Preview window and unused, available frames are displayed in the timeline,
• Simplified edge trimming: press Alt+[ or Alt+] to trim the beginning or end of the selected event to the cursor position.
• You can press Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] to navigate selected events on the timeline, or press Ctrl+Shift+[ and Ctrl+Shift+] to create time selections from selected events.
• When you right-click a file in the Project Media window and choose Select Timeline Events from the shortcut menu, the cursor now moves to the first event that uses the media and the timeline scrolls to the cursor.
• Vegas Pro allows you to match your project video properties to a video clip:
• You can choose to match project video settings to the first video clip you add to the timeline.
• You can right-click a video clip in the Project Media window and choose Match Project Video Settings from the shortcut menu.
• Added project-interchange tools to allow you to exchange projects with other popular editing platforms.
• Added support for importing and exporting text in the Credit Roll plug-in.
• Video plug-ins that include 2D positional controls can now be adjusted by dragging a point in the Video Preview window.
• Added support for reading orientation metadata in still-image formats. If a still image contains orientation metadata, the image will be oriented correctly when added to the Vegas Pro timeline. Orientation metadata is represented by the Rotation drop-down list in the Media Properties dialog.
• Render progress is now displayed in the Windows taskbar. If the render time is greater than a minute, a sound is played when rendering is complete.
• To change the sound, go Control Panel in Windows and click Sound. Click the Sounds tab and expand the Vegas Pro 12.0 entry. When you select the Render Complete event, you can preview the current sound, assign a new sound, or turn off the Render Complete sound.
• You can now import media from Vegas Pro project files.
• You can now tag media files in the Project Media window.
• Additional search fields for media bins and new smart bin feature.
• You can now edit properties for multiple media files.
• The Explorer window has been redesigned.
• Extensions are now saved in window layouts.
• You can now simultaneously adjust the fades of all selected events.
• Multiple rows of docked windows are now supported.
• Display of thumbnail images in the Project Media window has been refreshed.

Formats

• Added support for Intel Quick Sync Video accelerated rendering for Sony AVC/MVC when using a supported Intel processor.
• Added Blu-ray Disc rendering templates for the Sony AVC/MVC and MainConcept AVC/AAC formats.
• Added support for AVCHD 2.0.
• Added support for rendering HDCAM SR (SStP) video using the Sony MXF HDCAM SR format in the Render As dialog.
• Added support for reading Panasonic P2 files and browsing P2 devices with the Device Explorer window. DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD, and AVC-Intra formats are supported.
• Added support for choosing a color space and view transform when working with S-Log encoded images. Color space settings can be made in the media properties and custom rendering templates. The view transform setting is made in project properties.

~jr

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

[Malcolm Matusky]

That’s an upgrade!

Still trying to install it, I had the VP12 Beta installed, went on location for a month and it expired, devil of a time to uninstall it, something was corrupted and had to manually delete everything with help from the local guru.

Now VP12 will not install no matter what I have tried, no help from sony yet. Went through all of the “clean” uninstall/install procedures, no luck.

Ugh, computers!

Malcolm
http://www.malcolmproductions.com