Jerry Waters
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What stitches WMV without reencoding it? Just curious.
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Yes, we could with Premiere and After Effects. I’m sure you’ll be able to in Vegas – just move along the timeline and “edit” again.
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I forgot to add that Micah said in his last post, “We are looking at Vegas next. I hope it works out too.” If you like the idea maybe you should let him know.
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There are a couple of ways to use Looks. The current version runs on After Effects and Premiere. At least two of us in the beta group used Vegas and requested a version for Vegas. I did point out that Vegas was supposed to beta test a 64 bit version soon and it looked like it would be the first 64 bit NLE out.
The workflow can be done on stills or on a frame in the timeline. There are a bunch of presets which come up in menus on the left side of the screen. They may have one or six tools in them (effects applied).
For example, you have spot exposure. Maybe you have a shot with a bright background and want to light a face that is underexposed. The tools are on the right side divided into about 5 divisions – ones that effect the subject, ones that usually go in the matte box, ones in the camera, post. Drop Looks on the clip, then open spot exposure (drag or double click) and it goes to an effects tray on the bottom. When you click it two circles appear which you can adjust over the area. To the right is a slider which increase or decreases the exposure. It is like turning on a light and you can keyframe it to your subject.
All the tools have great controls. If you up the contrast (contrast tool), that effects exposure so there is a “exposure compensation” slider with it and you see the effects in the scope. Using the tool teaches you a lot about color and what effects what. There are tools like, Warm/Cool — Diffusion — Saturation (each color), Curves — more than you can learn in a few sessions.
Everything works fast. An option runs off a simple trackball. Hit the tilde key and a trackball controls the various elements and you can cycle through them with the tab. Each tool has from one to 7 or 8 contols. Move them and you see what it does to the shot.
When you get a Look you like, you can save it to a “Customs” folder with the other presets. The whole idea is you can do a lot to a shot quickly and if you want to learn colorization I can’t imagine a better tool or teacher.
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Vegas makes better mpg2 files than DVDA does. You cannot set as many parameters in DVDA as you can in Vegas. The qulity is poor. That is the biggest thing. You can find that explained by DSE on here several places on this forum. Burning? That isn’t explained as many times but DVDA also seems to be lacking there. The only thing it does well is “Prepare.”
But do what you want. Either believe us or not or do more research and then make a decision. I have no reason to lie about it, nor to keep posting if you want more.
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No problem at all. Make the mpg2 and AC3 files in Vegas, Prepare in DVDA, burn with Nero. Simple.
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I found the 2.2.1 installers for Prospect. Why the 3? What’s the difference?
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I cannot find an update for Prospect. Is there a link?
Your link to cineform.com in the last post doesn’t work.
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Thanks. That is a good suggestion.
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David:
I’m on Prospect. The same fix? I’ve had some issues as well – bought CS2 with free CS3 upgrade and couldn’t convert files over easily and not seeing the same thing in the preview when it is stopped or playing. My video card is an Nvidia 7900. Is there a link to instructions to try or just go straight to support?
Thanks,
Jerry