Which book should I read *before* Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

I do assume a level of video editing experience on the part of the reader of the book, as novices generally don’t spend 600.00 on a video editing application. So…there are words in there such as “segment, cutting, packages, track motion, splining,” etc that are all found in the book’s glossary on the included DVD (there wasn’t enough paper budget to print the glossary).
There is an elementary Vegas book authored by John Rofrano and myself on Vegas Movie Studio that might help get you started.
There is no more “elementary” book on Vegas. There is one written by another author who doesn’t actually use Vegas, and it’s pretty apparent he doesn’t, when you get into TrackMOtion, Pan/Crop, and compositing modes, as simple things become fairly convoluted very quickly.
Sony has a very good package, but it doesn’t go into most of the “why things work this way” but rather “this button does this” and leaves it to you to figure out why you’d want that button to do that…
I’d like to write a very basic book on Vegas Pro, we did that for Vegas 5. It didn’t sell well.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Travis Emmitt]

Douglas,

Thanks for the info! I will check out the elementary book. Is this the one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/157820271X/

When I bought “Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop” I didn’t know how big the differences were between Vegas Movie Studio and Vegas Pro. I assumed that Vegas’ tiers were similar to those for Cakewalk Sonar, where the “studio” and “pro[ducer]” versions are identical at the workflow level, but the “pro” version has more plugins. So far the Vegas differences don’t seem too great, although I wish I had more control and flexibility, and from what I’ve read, Pro will help.

If Vegas Pro 9 (which I’m hoping will come out in the next couple months) gets good reviews, I think I will upgrade to it. Of course, at that point, I will be looking for good books on Vegas 9! Do you intend to write another one?

Travis

[Edward Troxel]

Travis, for another source of information you might try looking through my newseletters.

Edward Troxel

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Vegas Pro 9 ANYTIME soon. 🙂
Your family will be calling the paramedics.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Travis Emmitt]

I thought Movie Studio 9 was coming out in August. Do the Pro and Movie Studio releases not coincide? If not, what is the usual latency for Pro’s release?