Which version to buy

[Harold Brown]

I use Vegas Pro 8 and do all of my compositing work there. I use a lot of stuff from Detonation Films in my movies and they look good. Here is a composite that I added to a Magic Lecture Promo. If you follow this link the video will start to play right away. It is about 15 seconds into the video. https://www.edellismagic.com/MultiMedia.html

It is done with Vegas and a special effect from DF (https://www.detonationfilms.com/).

Harold

You can see that I added the effect as well as highlighted the background as the spark travels to the floor. All the sound is from the Sound Effects series from Digital Juice.
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[Terry Esslinger]

If you are going to do compositing you will almost have to use Vegas Pro. The Studio versions are limitted to 4 video tracks. Vegas Pro has as many as you want.

[Jesse Davenport]

With Essentials, don’t you do the special effects in the program? If that’s the case, can I put the video back into Vegas Pro?

[John Rofrano]

Yes, Vegas Pro is quite capable of compositing the Action Essentials video with your original footage. You won’t need anything else.

~jr

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[Jesse Davenport]

So which one should I get Essentials or EffectsLab Pro?

[John Rofrano]

Only you can answer that. If you just want pre-made overlays get Essentials. If you want to make your own, get EffectsLab Pro. Personally, given the choice, I would buy EffectsLab Pro.

Don’t forget there is a free demo of EffectsLab Pro so you can download it and try it out before you buy. I’m a big believer in try-before-you-buy. This way there are no surprises.

~jr

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[Jesse Davenport]

I tried the Effectslab Pro demo and decided that I want to get Action Movie Essentials instead. Does anyone know how you get the special effects off the DVD?

[John Rofrano]

I’ve never seen an Action Movie Essentials DVD but I would imagine that they are just video files that you drag and drop into your projects? Do you have the DVD? What’s on it?

~jr

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[Adam Rose esq.]

drop them on to new track above your main video

right click and choose PROPERTIES. Find the alpha channel property and try dirty/premultiplied etc, i.e. change it from NONE

resize to fit using either PAN / CROP or Track Motion or both.

[Jesse Davenport]

I know how to put the effects in the video, but how do you pull them off the DVD?