Vegas Pro Production Assistant 2

[John Rofrano]

[Jason Warfe] “Is it pretty much the same thing as the first Production Assistant?”

Define “pretty much the same”?

Production Assistant 2.0 has a new Template Creator and Media Mapper that make creating templates and assigning media to templates a whole lot easier and more robust.

It has 13 new processes that can be applied:

1. Rendering as a process
2. Set Project Properties
3. Add any Video FX or chain of FX’s
4. Add any Audio FX or chain of FX’s
5. Add Video Bumpers
6. Load / Save Markers
7. Change Video Media Properties
8. Change Audio Event Properties
9. Adjust Undersample Rate
10. Set Resample mode
11. Trim Clip
12. Audio Overlay
13. Add Timecode

Production Assistant 2.0 also has automated media card support so you can place a media card from your camera into your computer and it will sense it and automatically launch, copy the media to your hard drive, launch a Vegas project template, and run automated processes on the project. This is very valuable for run-n-gun and same day events. And there have been enhancements made to the Lower Thirds tool.

Other than that… yea, it’s “pretty much the same”.

[Jason Warfe] “I purchased Production Assistant 1 and enjoyed it. Production Assistant 2 says it has a lower third generator.”

The Lower Thirds tool in Production Assistant 2.0 allows you to specify your own Lower Thirds. You can customize and save existing Lower Thirds as a new Lower Third. You can also specify your own “user build” Lower Thirds to show up in the Lower Thirds tool. It also includes automated Text Event Generation. You have the option to automatically add Text/ProType event above the Lower Third on timeline. This saves time in having to do this manually after the Lower Third is placed.

[Jason Warfe] “Is it the same lower thirds or brand new ones?”

The initial set is the same but there are still 6 more sets of Lower Thirds that you can purchase from VASST.

~jr

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[Jason Warfe]

Thanks for the info, I have Production Assistant 1 and I really like it, based on the new “processes” it looks like this is a good buy.