Paul Gilmore
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I am a wedding/event videographer and I spend good amount of personal quality time in post, editing each video clip by clip to insure my clients satisfaction. One problem with people who go into vidoegraphy that I have noticed is the majority do not spend quality time editing, because they feel it’s too time consuming and they have more important things to do with that time, so they just throw clips together, throw in a song and it looks as if the client had his uncle stick a camera up and shot it. There is no professionalism, the video does not flow or match the music, etc. etc. This to me is a disgrace and gives the wedding/event videography industry a bad name which hurts those of us who do care and and are professional with their clients and videos. This is my livelihood yet it is also my passion and love and it kills me to see a video edited so poorly when it could have been so beautiful, and for those who say ah $500 wedding what do they expect? well it shouldn’t matter how cheap they hired you for, each video and each client deserves the same professionalism. I know I kinda went off track here with this topic, however I just needed to get that off my chest. Okay now as far as editing software, I have been editing beautifully for the past 4 years with Vegas pro series, I’m using pro8.c and I love it, it works great for me. I agree with the statement made about the race car driver… the best editing software isn’t which product is more expensive, more popular, etc. the best editing software is the one that works the best for you and that your comfortable with. I have meet diffrent videographer’s during my years and I have meet more that use Apple then Sony, the reason? because that’s what’s popular and they feel the more $$ they shell out the better it will be. True Apple does offer things Vegas does not, however how many times are you really going to be using all of their 3D composite imaginary etc.? especially for a wedding or a special event? When I have shown my work to fellow videographer’s who use Apple, before I tell them what I use, they are blown away by how clean and smooth my video’s look and how they flow so well… when I tell them I use Vegas pro. they are in awe, why? because again Apple is the popular brand and Vegas is tend to be looked at as the little brother who gets kicked to the curb. I love Vegas for the simple fact it has all the plugin’s and tools necessary to get the job done professionally. It is more user friendly etc. however that is not what made my decision to use Vegas, I have used Apple software Final Cut pro. After Effects etc. etc. and yes they are very fine programs, yet when I used Vegas for the first time it just appealed to me more. And for those who say Vegas doesn’t have all the plugin’s as Apple does.. well maybe you should google, I have found tons of diffrent cool plugin’s for Vegas and many of the same type of plugin’s Apple has just in Vegas form.
Bottom line is: Never let companies tell you what you should or should not use, compare for yourself, take a few test drives and see which is more compatible for you.
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But that would mean my chapter and menus will be gone correct?
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Yes the HD is split up between a C and a D drive 300GB each. I have dedicated the D drive for editing and saving projects etc.
Here is a link to the specs on my comp. I did add an extra GB of memory so I do have 4GB of memory.
https://h10025.https://www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01070924
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I have an Intel core 2Quad CPU – 2.40GHz
300 GB of RAM (Memory)
600 GB HD separated by two diffrent HD’sis this sufficient?
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Yes I shoot everything in 16:9 and yes I am aware of the 24p I never use it because it never turns out right. And yes I shoot under low light the majority of the time with weddings. I guess what I’m more concerned about is, I keep hearing editing in HD is very difficult, is it? or is just more time consuming?
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I was told you couldn’t but I don’t see why that would be
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Can you import footage into vegas from AE?
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strange no one else seems to have problems? is that true NO ONE lese shares the same problems???
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I’ve had to uninstall Vegas pro9. Sony came out with an 9.a update so I reinstalled it with the update and saw no improvements. I spent money I really didn’t have to upgrade to Vegas 9 for my business and now I cant even use it! I tried to call sony however tech support wont talk to me unless I buy their tech support plan!!
August you are the first person that I have heard who is having the same problems and even more, everytime I post something no one understands what I’m saying and it can be hard to explain some of this stuff you have to see for yourself. But why is pro9 having so many tech problems! I really like the new layout and the additional effects etc. it really upsets me I cant use it now. I’m going to try and contact sony again and hopefully someone will be kind enough to lend me a helping hand.
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Looks choppy or as if it’s having a hard time reading the footage…
that must be it then, I had preview on full and as you said it a frame issue in full preview. Auto and half looks great.