John Rofrano
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[Michael Leibson] “If I understand you correctly, tho’, the cropped image still retains its original resolution, even tho’ its aspect ratio has been ‘forced’ by that crop.”
Yes, it is simply cropping the image without loosing any resolution.
[Michael Leibson] “However, if I zoom in a great deal, won’t I automatically obtain a less ‘crisp’ image, because – by zooming in – there will necessarily be fewer pixels per unit of area than without the zoom? (This seems to be what occurs.) If this is indeed the case, is there anything I can do to mitigate this?”
Yes, at some point. If you zoom in past the resolution of the original media then the picture will start to degrade but zooming a 1920×1080 picture in 100% (by 2x) will only require 3840×2160 of resolution which is still below the 4000×3000 of your image so there will be no loss in quality unless you zoom in above that resolution.
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[George White] “Do video editors in the film/hollywood industry use Vegas Pro 15?”
No, not in Hollywood but Yes, in indie filmmaking.
[George White] “What editing software do professional video editors use to edit films?”
Most Hollywood films are edited on Avid, Final Cut Pro, or Premiere Pro. If you are looking to get a job in the industry, you should learn one or more of those. Most indie filmmakers use whatever they can afford that works.
Vegas Pro isn’t targeted at Hollywood Filmmaking. It doesn’t have the media management capabilities required for teams of editors to collaborate on a large projects. Its designed for a single editor situations and it does that very well.
It is popular in the indy filmmaking community where usually only one editor works on a project. Stan Harrington uses it for all of his films. Bred in the Bone and The Craving Heart are two good examples.
It has been used for TV shows like the Discovery Channel’s Survivorman with Les Stroud and the PBS series Painting and Travel With Roger & Sarah Bansemer shot, edited, and starting our own Roger Bansemer right here on the Creative Cow forums. (in the interest of full disclosure, I was the finishing editor for the first three seasons).
So Vegas Pro has been used by lots of professionals because there are far more professions in the world than there are in Hollywood! ????
It’s not the tool …it’s the craftsman that wields it that makes the difference.
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[Andy Mac] “Please tell me I’m missing a really simple checkbox that says something along the lines of “Don’t zoom in media that’s 1920×1039 and above”?? “
Try this checkbox in Options | Preferences | Editing:
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There are a lot of factors that can affect rendering performance but you didn’t mention your GPU.
I’m guessing that only 60% if your CPU is being used because the GPU is doing a lot of the work. Your hard drives will never be the bottleneck when rendering They hardly get used because rendering by it’s very nature is a CPU/GPU intensive process.
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If I understand you correctly, you are asking the difference between Pan/Crop and Track Motion. They both appear to do similar things but in different ways.
Pan/Crop retains the resolution of the source material and always uses all of the resolution regardless of the resolution of the project.
Track Motion always uses the resolution of the project. Any zoom in will degrade the image regardless of how much resolution the original had because it gets converted to the resolution the project first and then gets zoomed.
The bottom line is never zoom IN with Track Motion if you want to retain quality. It is designed for zooming OUT to make a picture-in-picture effect. Always use Pan/Crop if you want to zoom in.
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[Rafal Biel] “What can I do to apply the effect to only the slice I want it on instead of vegas treating the slices as 1 whole clip? “
There is definitely a terminology problem here. Vegas Pro doesn’t have anything called a “slice”.
You can apply effects at the Track level, Event level, and Media level (i.e., Track FX, Event FX, Media FX). Which did you do?
It sounds like you may have applied the blur to an entire track or to the media which would show up on all of the events. if you just want to have it on one event, then only apply it to that event and the others will remain unchanged.
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I guess it depends on your cell phone. That’s a rather odd resolution. Is that native for your cell phone?
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[Tyler Reterovik] “I’m looking for something to use to edit videos for my YouTube Channel, and I don’t really know which would be better for editing my videos (Vlogging and Gaming), VEGAS Pro or VEGAS Movie Studio. I would really appreciate if someone could tell me which one would be better.”
Vegas Pro has more functionality that professional videographers would need (like closed captioning, 3D compositing) that Movie Studio doesn’t have but for editing YouTube videos, Movie Studio should be all that you need. It is quite capable and probably more than adequate.
The best part is that both have a 30-day free trial. I would download the trial for MovieStudio, search YouTube for some tutorials and take an afternoon to learn it. Then see if it does all that you need. No guesswork! 😉
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[Tom Burgess] “Can you recommend any of these from personal experience?”
I use Apple Bootcamp for when I need GPU support. Otherwise I use VMware Fusion or VirtualBox. Fusion is a bit better than VirtualBox but VirtualBox is free.
~jr
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