Mike Dalton
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The thing I like about the linoleum idea is that it is thicker than the vinyl sold for such purposes. I bought some white vinyl and it’s about the thickness of a window shade – but with linoleum I’m thinking it would really be more like a painted wall. Perhaps I’m wrong but to me the thickness may make a difference in keying. I’m not sure.
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I’m not nearly as concerned about cost as I am about getting a really clean key. Paper is possible (I’m not opposed to it), but only if it works really well – better than anything else. I have no experience with it personally.
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Excellent tips, guys – I appreciate you taking the time to answer these concerns – bonus points for you both!
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Tom, on your suggestion, I looked at some of the Boris for AE stuff (they have a product called “Morph Win”) – and I’ve come to the concluson that either:
1). Boris has a terrible marketing department
Or
2). Their morph transitions are terrible.
The reason for this conclusion is that there does not seem to be a single video example on the entire internet from Boris or anyone else demonstrating their morph transitions. So, it would seem that they are either deliberately hiding the finished product, or they don’t employ anyone who knows how to use this newfangled internet thing.
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Michael and Perrone –
I appreciate your comments. You both know far more about the AVID’s verbal promises than me.
I gave up with the AVID forums about 6 months ago. I know nothing about MC5 or any other future products that AVID plans to release.
I’m actually very excited that AVID has said they will support such things in the future.
I bought my AVID a few years ago, and I have been 100% unimpressed with it’s HD abilities vs. Vegas. I am unable to monitor at all, and that’s what I’m speaking about.
I was wrong to make statements without knowing what AVID has promised they will do in the future. I’m sure new AVIDs will be the most amazing things ever, and that may keep me an AVID user.
If they are allowing 3rd party hardware, then they are certainly a different company completely. The AVID I knew 6 months ago would have died rather than allow this.
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All of these solutions are similar, and yet none seem to accomplish what many editors need to do – apply a dissolve regardless of the relation of the clip to other clips.
If you have some clips adjacent to others, and some that are stand-alone and not near others, you would naturally want them all to dissolve. The suggestions listed (which I do appreciate by the way) would merely dip to black or lower media between clips for adjacent media. I need a cross-dissolve centered on the clip – which will either dissolving up from nothing, or dissolving into the clip next to it.
Basically everywhere there is a start of end of media, that point would get a centered cross-dissolve.
I use this feature all the time, and really can’t imagine it not being in an editing system. All editors, regardless of what type of editing you do, need this script – and you’ll cry when you realize the years you spend without it.
Perhaps if nobody has ever written it, I need to do it myself. However I know nothing of scripting. It seems that everyone so far has not realized the editing power possible with such a script. I just can’t believe it wasn’t in version .001 of Vegas. That floors me!!! -
I am in the opposite position – I have used AVID for 15 years, and am now moving to Vegas. The main reason? HD. With my AVID machine, I can’t preview HD. Regular Media Composer (not Adrenaline) cannot monitor HD natively. Many people don’t realize this. Media Composer cannot output HD to a monitor. Stop to think about that.
There are some user-generated work-arounds to combat this shortcoming, but they involve non-AVID approved methods. They want to sell you Adrenaline, and therefore cripple Media Composer.
Although I’ve only used Vegas for about a week, I can firmly tell you that it is a much more mature, comptetent platform for modern editing (again, not including Adrenaline which costs much, much more).Current AVID management has made decisions which are ruining this once-great company. I will now re-learn editing from scratch after 15 years with AVID. And I’m happy to do it. And I am not alone. AVID is dead. Don’t waste your time with them.
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I just looked at Vegasaur, and it is interesting, but not very well written for adding transitions. In AVID, there was a setting called “Apply to all Transitions – In to out”, which would add dissolves between clips, including the beginning of a clip block or selected area. Vegasaur neglects the beginning and end of clips over a selected area. Massive product-killing blunder on their part.
Vegas in general seems to not want to make it easy to add a transition to the beginning or end of a piece of media (if it’s not touching another piece of media). It does not “lock in” on my default of 20 frames. Why is this? I want to put stuff on many tracks – not just one. Why does the transition default setting ONLY apply to touching media?
Adding transitions are kinda important in my work, and this seems like a HUGE HUGE weakness when coming from AVID. -
Thanks for this detailed response – this is just what I wanted to know. Good stuff.
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