[John Rofrano]

> Is there a particular program that’s generally considered to be the equivalent of AE, that has found some popularity with the Vegas Pro community?

Boris RED.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

> Is there a chance of SONY ever releasing their own compositing/grading software?

Vegas Pro already has good compositing capabilities and you can get lots of film looks using the build-in tools in Vegas (check out VASST Celluloid which only uses internal Vegas FX to do this).

Also, What’s wrong with Boris RED? What’s wrong with Magic Bullet? There are already plug-ins that do this. (and Boris RED can also run most AE plug-ins as well)

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

> Suppose I have a HDV (M2T) clip. I want to do color corrections, special effects or film look in AE and edit in Vegas. What conversions should I make. What should be my best workflow.

Color corrections, special effects, and film look are very different things. I would do all of my editing in Vegas first and then render a final version for color correcting or film looks in AE. That is unless you have a two camera shoot and need to color correct one camera which I would do first before editing. Special effects would be handled as needed depending on the FX. Usually I would render a section of the project in Vegas, add the FX in AE, then overlay the FX for that section back in Vegas on a higher track so that the original events are still there on the lower track in case I need to change them later.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You really should start a new post for this since this a new problem.

What kind of camera? (make/model/video format)

Do you get an audio track on the timeline?

If you have an audio track is there a waveform displayed?

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You can make one with a script. First you need a script that will fade the event for you. The following JavaScript code will do this. Just cut and paste it into a file called FadeEventInOut.js

/**
* Program: FadeEventInOut.js
* Description: This script will add a 1 second fade both ends of the current event
* Author: John Rofrano
*
* Date: June 7, 2003
* April 27, 2004 - Updated for Vegas 5 libraries
* June 15, 2005 - Updated to work on ALL selected events
*
**/

import System.Windows.Forms;
import Microsoft.Win32;
import Sony.Vegas;

/* Change the following to be the length of the fade */
/* note: 1000 = 1 second */
var fadeAmount : Timecode = new Timecode(1000);

try
{
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks)
{
for (var trackEvent in track.Events)
{
if (trackEvent.Selected)
{
trackEvent.FadeIn.Length = fadeAmount;
trackEvent.FadeOut.Length = fadeAmount;
}
}
}
}
catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
}

Place the file in the Vegas .\Script Menu folder. Then In Vegas make a keyboard short-cut to the script. In Vegas Pro 8.0 it’s Options | Customize Keyboard and assign the script to a short-cut.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

> The GSpot does not support 64bit Vista…

Sure it does. I use it all the time on Vista 64. I’m not sure why you would think that it doesn’t work.

> I installed a video converter between a couple of projects for internet .flv to knock down the MB’s. Maybe i lost something in the process.

You still didn’t answer my question. What codec did you use? This is your problem. You need to use a codec that Vegas can edit.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

What codec do the AVI files use? Make sure it’s a format that Vegas can edit. If it is, make sure you have the codec installed on your PC. You can use GSpot to determine what codec an AVI file uses.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Where did you get these files? If from a camera, what camera stores AVCHD files as MP4? Are you sure it’s an AVCHD camera and not just an MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 camera which doesn’t necessarily make it AVCHD. I’ve only seen MTS and M2TS used as valid AVCHD extensions.

If Vegas can convert these files one at a time then you could use VASST Ultimate S Pro to set up a batch render to convert hundreds of these files at a time. It will load each one and render it to whatever format you need.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

> i think vegas doesnt like xvid that much but does it like Divx?

Nope. Vegas doesn’t work with DivX or Xvid. I would convert to DV or some other format that Vegas can handle.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Thanks Mike… Finger check there. TMH-150CGU is correct.

~jr

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