Vegas 8 vs Vegas 8 Pro?

[Steve Rhoden]

Your questions are a little confusing.
Sony vegas 8 is Pro, there is no vegas 8 and vegas 8 pro, its just
sony vegas pro 8.

If you have vegas 8 installed, you dont need to uninstall it
when installing newer versions, it will just update the current
version.

If you are refering to sony vegas movie studio 8 or
sony vegas movie studio platinum

Then these are different programs than vegas 8 pro.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Mechelle Stewart]

Excuse me for not inserting the “movie studio” part in my question. I assumed one would know that regular 8 was the movie studio version, since it wasn’t the Pro version, and it wasn’t the platinum version, since I didn’t say so.

So if I don’t uninstall MOVIE STUDIO 8, then the Pro 8 won’t interfere or crash my puter? I can use both? And can they interact with one another?

Thanks!

[Steve Rhoden]

“If I don’t uninstall MOVIE STUDIO 8, then the Pro 8 won’t
interfere or crash my computer? ”

That is correct,it wont cause an issue and you can use both,
But,there is no need for MOVIE STUDIO 8, when you have VEGAS PRO 8.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Mechelle Stewart]

So Pro does all that MS8 does and more….cool!

Thanks a bunch!

[Steve Rhoden]

That’s right Mechelle,
The pro version covers all the bases and more.
and loaded with a lot more unlimited professional features.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Just be aware that you cannot open Vegas Pro files (.veg) in the movie studio version. You can, however, open movie studio files in Vegas pro.

j razz

[Mechelle Stewart]

Another question. This one may not be so simple to answer. I am making ghost clips for some fan/fic music videos. In MS8, close ups are no problem, I can use the “cookie cutter” feature and apply the ghostly image by placing it on the track above the “background” clip. However, “cookie cutter” doesn’t work so well if you have a full body figure, or something isolated as a ghostly hand wandering about. It includes the any segment of the original “ghost” clip in with the ghost, within whatever shape in “cookie cutter” i’m using.

Is there anyway to trace around, say a body, like you would in photoshop to make a cutout of a photo. Is there anyway to do that with actual video. Trace around the body, only? For some reason I thought I saw where you could do something similar with “masking”, although I’m not familiar with what that is, exactly. I could be wrong. The masking could be for something else.

Sorry the question was a bit complicated, but this is something that will advance me HUGELY in my video editing.

Thanks

Mechelle

[Steve Rhoden]

No, your question is not complicated. What you are refering to is masking, which vegas Pro does well (iam not sure about MS8).
You simply click the little box on the edge of the video clip to open
the ‘event pan/crop’ window…at the bottom of this window, you
will see “mask”…tick the empty box to enable it, then all the tools
will appear on the left for you to begin drawing and manipulating
your mask.

Just feel your way around and in no time you will get the hang of it.

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.

[Mechelle Stewart]

Thanks!

MS8 has “mask generator”, but I’m not sure how that works. I don’t think it does the same thing as you described with Pro 8, or at least, everyone says if you want to do masking you have to get Pro 8.

Thanks again!

[Mechelle Stewart]

Okay, I’m going to wear my ignorance thick, here.

I installed Pro 8. Yay! I tried playing around with the mask feature, but am stuck just beyond creating a mask.

For example, say I wanted to create a video clip of a ghostly hand floating through the woods. Two video tracks. On the bottom track, I have the clips of the woods. On the track above it, I have the clip of a hand. One way I could do this is to create cookie cutters and adjust the opacity of the top track, but as I said, it would show everything in the cookie cutter moving along with the hand.

So I’ve created the cookie cutter anchors around the hand……..but it cuts out the image. It doesn’t show the image of the hand in the background below it. It shows a black field with a hand shape floating, and you see the main clip inside the hand shape. I’m obviously doing something wrong. I need the hand to be transparently floating through the woods.

I’ve never used the mask feature before, so I’m stooped at this point.