Douglas Spotted eagle
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Capture via Firewire. Don’t even mess around with USB.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Vegas also has direct support for the Frontier Tranzport, but it’s more $$ than the Mackie.
Any device with HUI support will work in Vegas, you’ll merely need to do the mapping by hand. My Vegas book DVD comes with a keyset for a Midiman Oxygen keyboard, but it’s a keyboard with knobs, so you might not like that interface.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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JPG is a bad choice for this; compression and lack of alpha channel make it less than ideal. PNG or TGA w/alpha are better.
Either way, either toss the mask generator on the media itself, or place the track containing the jpg file in a mask mode.
Child the track beneath, place the fire there.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Vegas gives you the same option, except it’s invisible.
Import a CD to a 96k/24bit project, it plays at 44.1/16 bit until you output. Then you have a choice.
I for one, would *never* want my audio to be resampling in real time. And no, Vegas won’t shift it up (or down) unless you want it to. Try it.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I’d imagine in most cases, it’s because they can’t without clearance from the producer or studio.
I can tell a story where a senior producer of one of the top broadcast shows in the world was fired for saying in public, that he used Vegas to produce parts of the show. The broadcast company, owned by an even larger conglomerate that Tim mentions without name in another thread, has seen to it that he is having a very difficult time finding a job. There is a company out there that if their product is mentioned in any negative public light, will do anything they can to destroy the author of that information. Seen it happen on multiple occasions.
In other words, there is tremendous incentive to keep your mouth shut and almost no incentive to say anything if you’re working on a big-name title.
Marketing gets away with so much bullsh$$ anyway, not sure that it matters.
For example….one company advertised very publically that they were the first to shoot HD of a certain event in the far north of the world. They were indeed the first, that week, but two years late to the party.
It’s the nature of the beast.
Counting in my head, I can think of at least 31 Emmy Awards that have either been posted entirely in, or at least recorded with, Sony Vegas, and I believe there are more. My credits sheet alone is virtually *entirely* Vegas, even though I was one of the first artists in the world to record on ProTools (Windham Hill artists very tightly involved with the development of ProTools in the early days).
My opinion is this:
If you’re working in a network environment, you *need* to know ProTools. Not because it’s the best, it’s the worst, IMO. Nuendo, SONAR, Vegas, Logic…all much better tools, IMO. But…ProTools is a standard. Like most standards, it’s slow to reach the same level of functionality as the more nimble, smaller-group tools.
Look at the Army….slow as hell to adopt change and flexibility. Merceneries can kick butt over what the Army can (and will) do. They’re more nimble.
‘Nother small example…
Vegas was the first audio tool to do HD audio. Four years before ProTools could, and without specific hardware. You only needed hardware capable of 192/24bit, and there was a lot of hardware from Echo, MOTU, Apogee, etc long before ProTools could manage it. Turns out it didn’t matter much, but point is, others follow, but in so many cases, Vegas leads. Particularly in Audio. BTW, *many* of the functions you find standard in various audio apps spawned from Curtis Palmer and Monte Schmidt’s Sound Forge in the first days. They set the standard for DAW work.
Gawd, the day I left Sonic and Turtle Beach 56K for Sound Forge….wow.Some folks here weren’t even borned back then. We had to edit audio uphill and downhill both ways, usually in heavy snow, otherwise known as sample timing errors. 🙂 not like how you kids gots it today.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I’m not certain that a Muslim is any more difficult to key than a Mormon, but I’ll take your word for it. Muslin on the other hand, can be difficult to key. Just because you see it offered everywhere doesn’t mean it’s a good material to work with.
“Polished muslin” is common, and terrible to key because it’s shiny. Raw, or rough muslin, works easily, if it doesn’t have wrinkles.
I’m a bigger fan of the foam-backed key fabric, available in up to 12′ pieces without any need for seaming. It’s not expensive, and easily found on Ebay. Photoflex makes foam-backed popups like Tim mentioned. AFAIK, Westcott does not. With the foam-backed key material, it’s pretty hard to mess up, if you’ve got even questionable light.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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1. Most DAW’S convert sample rates and bit depth to match project settings, vegas doesnt, why?
Because Vegas works with the SOURCE recording, which one would never want to be converted in real-time. Not only does it bog down the system, but it also may not be accurate. If I recorded it at 48K/24bit, that’s what I want to hear, regardless of whether I’ve failed to change the project settings or not.
2. Any high end film mixes done in vegas, not talking about indies?
Yup, see the thread below this one.3. Why should i do my final mix and vegas and not export to nuendo?
Because you already know Vegas? If you know Nuendo, why not use Nuendo?4. What advantages would i have doing this in nuendo instead of vegas (no midi needed)
Familiarity with Nuendo? Speed (if you are more comfortable with Nuendo)? Nuendo’s colors are easier on the eyes, while Vegas has better media management? Nuendo has better Easter Eggs in the app?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Rod Stewart has only won one Grammy from an album recorded/produced/mastered in Vegas.
Dio’s new album didn’t win any awards for being mixed in Vegas.
“Last Samurai,” “SWAT,” “Hidalgo,” “Black Hawk Down,” and a few others failed to win Oscars, but it wasn’t because portions of those films were recorded/mixed in Vegas.
Portions of National Treasure “Book of Secrets” probably won’t win an Oscar even though they were recorded in Vegas.
I don’t think “Evan Almighty” or “Barnyard Animals” fared well with the Academy in spite of being posted in Vegas.
Vegas is being used as an audio tool in a lot of places where you’d not expect to find it.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I can’t imagine anyone purchasing an SD camcorder these days, period. HD authoring not withstanding, the image derived from an HD source downconverted to SD is still significantly better than any SD camcorder can offer.
The HVX200 isn’t the camera I’d recommend either. Smallest imager, smallest recorded image, and noisiest camera of the lot you mention. Not to mention the not-so-optimal workflow of P2 and Vegas.
My list would probably run like:Canon A1-
Sony V1=
XL2
HVX200Would love to return to toronto if the film school would like to bring me back. Currently on an Israel, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia tour for HD Production and Vegas. When it’s warm in Toronto, I’d love to be back there, too. 🙂
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NR suite comes with Sound Forge 9, or as a stand-alone.
It’s much better than what comes wth any NLE, but not quite as good as what iZotope sells as a stand-alone.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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