[Michael Bailey]

Hi Rick!

I’ve used Vegas along with assorted versions of Premiere Pro for the past 5 years and I almost agree with you. I too am the kind of guy who uses PhotoShop CS3 and believes that if you can’t do it by manually [without the help of plugin’s] then you just don’t know the program well enough yet. However 3rd party plugins can improve workflow in a lot of situations, although I avoid them whenever possible in every tool I use.

However, there is 1 single remaining issue I have with Vegas that I simply haven’t seen addressed yet. I do a LOT of Chromakey work and I simply can’t avoid slipping over to After Effects/Premiere to key my videos. I’ve tried all of the internal keying aspects built in Vegas and I know most of the ways to maximize it, but I just haven’t been happy with the final results. Especially the smoothing capabilities, shadowing, color correction and interlacing capabilities of something like Premiere/After Effects using something like Keyframe, or even layering the Internal Keying options.

So…
If anyone knows of a strong Keyer plugin for Vegas 8 that doesn’t take weeks to render panels [lol] and is cost effective [meaning less than a grand] I’d love to hear about it. I’d also love to know your thoughts on effective keying inside Vegas with Vegas tools. Right now I’m running Vista and I’d love to toss Premiere [and it’s memory allocation horrors, especially in CS3] and stay inside Vegas, all the way.

Michael
ActiveInternet.com