Jerry Norman
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I experience this. Using HMC150 and Vegas 9.0e.
Jerry
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Jeremy, can you elaborate on how Production Assistant would help with this? I have PA but haven’t used it in this way.
I’m not sure of the full intent of the OP, but what I do may offer some ideas. I have a number of “stock” veg’s that I reuse across many videos. A good example is my closing clip which is an animation that includes my company’s name and web address. I also have a large number of animated track motion template vegs that contain “slugs” (i.e., generated media) that I replace with real footage when I use them in a project.
I have created a media library of all my reusable vegs, and created tags (e.g., “track motion template”) to make them easy to locate. In Media Manager I can then browse and preview these, and insert them as nested vegs as required.
On the other hand, if I had one recurring video that always had the same or similar organization and only the media changed from one to the next, this is where I would use Production Assistant. I had a project in mind to do just that when I bought PA, but haven’t done it yet.
Jerry
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JR, I use nested vegs in a similar manner to what you describe and have come to really appreciate this feature of Vegas for complex intros, titles, credits, etc.
One additional use I recently learned for nested vegs: A few weeks ago I videoed a recital and produced a nice one hour DVD for the client. We then decided we would like a “trailer” or short of the recital for promotional reasons. I started a new project, then imported my original veg into the new project’s media. Next, I opened the original veg in the trimmer, selected various segments, and put them into a single track in the new timeline. This way I was able to easily reuse my color correction, transitions and other effects to build a trailer without dealing with the complexity of the multiple tracks in the original. This was a great time saver.
Jerry
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James, what do you mean by sequences? If you mean importing and exporting image sequences then Vegas does support that.
Regarding the original question – I originally came to Vegas from Media Studio Pro because MSP was very unstable and Vegas was rock solid.
I have seen Vegas become less stable with versions 8 and 9. And although I applaud SCS’s quick response on the slow project loading problem in 9d, and earlier the quick response on the problem of losing text in titles, in general I think SCS has become much less responsive than Sonic Foundry was to less critical bugs that get frequent mention in the forums. In fairness to SCS, video formats have become much more complex in the last few years with introduction of HDV and AVCHD. Nearly every NLE vendor is struggling with AVCHD, and I’m pretty sure that takes resouces away from other things we would like to see SCS address.
My recommendations to SCS? More than anything else I feel SCS needs to implement a public beta to get wider exposure before releasing a new version to production. Both the text problem and slow load problems mentioned before were caught within days of release but were not caught within (presumably) weeks or months of beta testing. Even public beta testing won’t catch all problems, but I think it would significantly reduce the embarrasing flaws we’ve seen in Vegas 9.
Jerry
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Unfortunately, I had the same experience with the trial version. I just tried it again yesterday on a 20 second clip and it didn’t work. If I had bought it I would be asking for a refund.
Jerry
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Giles, here is how I do the split screen.
1. Load your reference clip on the timeline and in the preview window toolbar copy a snapshot to clipboard.
2. Load the clip to be matched to the timeline and in the preview window toolbar click the Split Screen Preview dropdown and select clipboard. This will place the snapshot of your reference clip in the left half of the preview window and your timeline clip in the right half.
3. Now you can use FX’s on you timeline clip to match it up with the reference clip. However, I find that certain of the eyedroppers cause the split window to revert to single (non-split) view.
Please post here if you find this works for you – might be one of my preference settings or techniques that is fouling the split screen.
Jerry
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Giles, I have been using the split window technique and just tried your “work around”. I think it works better than the split window for color matching. For those who try this, you need to enable the trimmer preview window. It is also useful to know that the home and end keys will take you to the beginning and end of a selection in the trimmer.
Thanks for sharing this.
Jerry
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Hi Suzin,
Go to Device Exploer in Vegas and import directly from the card. Vegas will automatically concatenate any files that maker up larger-than-4GB clips, and also renames all clips so you won’t have duplicate names across multiple SDHC cards.
Jerry
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Alexander, I suggest sending this to SCS and see what their response is. Then they can resolve these conflicts in the help and template.
Jerry