Peter Honig
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Thanks Peter.
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Yes you CAN do compositing with Vegas, but there are some limitations. For example, Vegas supports 3D planes which you can move and intersect, but no other 3D objects of greater complexity are supported. For that, I use Boris Red both as a Vegas plugin and as a stand-alone compositing tool. Red supports spheres, cylinders, extrusions, etc. along with excellent text generation. However, with Vegas 8, the text generation issue has been solved. Yes, AE probably does do a bit more but for a significantly higher price and learning curve. But Vegas is not far behind in its abilities. It all comes down to what sort of projects you plan to work on. I do a lot of corporate videos with elaborately lit spinning logos and products that rise up from pools of water, etc. I also do a lot of space simulations of satellites/probes where I typically show a planetary fly-by or atmospheric burn-up. I do all this with Sony Vegas and Boris Red.
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I too am a Sony Vegas user and I am extremely pleased with the product. I’m sure there are other NLEs out there that are generally comparable in functionality, but I have heard that Vegas has an especially easy work flow. I have only used one other NLE by Pinnacle that I was very unhappy with, and switched to Vegas because of its rock-solid stability. In fact, during the three years in which I have been using Vegas it has never crashed or hung up. Another thing that I like about Vegas is that the forum members are very helpful at problem solving. It is a very friendly and open environment where you can discuss competitive products and not be sensored. There is no bashing of products or people that I have yet seen. All very professional.
Regarding work flow and ease of use, any system can be made to work for you once you get used to it. There are a great many folks who use and love After Effects though it might be a little hard to use at first. Whichever tool you wind up getting, invest the time to learn it as thoroughly as possible and it will serve your needs.
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BCC Particle System has a preset called ThinSmoke that might be what you are seeking.
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Peter,
So far, those of us who own Red 4.x have successfully gotten it to work with Vegas 8. For those of us who upgraded from Vegas 7, we did have to manually copy the DLLs from the plugin directory. But other than that, it was uneventful.
Peter
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Glad I could help.
Sincerely,
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I have 4.1.5 (the latest version). You can upgrade for free from the Boris web site. I definitely found lots of bug fixes since the version that you currently have.
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Glad the effects now apprear. However, I noticed you said that you moved TWO dll files. On my system I see THREE:
BorisRED4 VVFL.dll (filter module)
BorisRED4 VVMG.dll (media generator module)
BorisRED4 VVTR.dll (transition module) -
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Thanks for checking.