Russ Froze
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[Russell Ross] “if I can get it in writing from him and provide to you….? Will you be able to help me?
“If you provide proper permission to use the logo, I’m certain someone will help you.
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Russ this is Russ,
[Russell Ross] “I am the VP of our local high school booster club”
I’m with Grazzie on this point. Do you have the rights in writing, if not you are setting yourself up for a lawsuit. It is as my lawyer always states. “Let’s get it in writing while we are still friends”
[Aaron Star] “That is most likely After Effects, or a particle effect in a 3D app like Blender, Maya, or 4D.”
What about Fusion, it’s free.
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Hi, so the mp4 settings are?
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Hi Grazzie, I must have missed a few pages if not the entire book. I take it there is another thread, would you direct me to it please.
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I can’t get handbrake to recognize video Frame Served from Vegas via Debugmode.
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I’m sure the legal department has gone over it as to avoid law suites, but from a moral viewpoint, it’s just plain wrong. With that I’d like to add one more point as to why choose Vegas. So far Sony has yet to outright lie to me about product features. So lets call it integrity.
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[John Rofrano] “It’s basically a sales gimmick for Avid to sell more subscriptions.”
Ain’t that just like avid, Thanks for pointing it out and saving me a bunch of frustration. And yup I told Avid they were free to be Avid Everywhere save on my workstations.
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[Nick McMahon] “Why would someone choose Vegas over say the Adobe suite…?”
Well that is a fair question.To put simply it’s a matter of choice.
For my business, clients do not want a workstation that is online so it’s a security issue. I also do not like software reaching out to the web whenever it feels like it. It is none of anybodies business what is on my machine.Although the subscription model used by Adobe is a manageable payment per month, should your business run into a negative situation be it due to a billing issue or perhaps an investment in new gear due to theft or accident or perhaps you are bankrolling your pet project that’s been in the works for years, if you don’t pay the monthly ransom, your software is all locked up.
Then there is the gpu debate. Frankly when it comes to soft shadows or gradients, the gpu calculations are poor at best especially in 3D software. Colors are not as true compared to software render and blending modes can have some undesirable results.
As to rendering speed, yes it’s true some codec choices do not utilise the gpu very well in Vegas but my cuda cores do just fine with main concept and even avchd. Frankly having done rendering comparisons, Adobe is not really all that much quicker and quite often it lags by hours compared to other systems. But then that’s probably just my setup.
Now lets move on to the audio section. I like the virtual mixer in Vegas. Sure two or thee tracks of camera audio are manageable on an edit timeline. But what happens when using dedicated audio recorders per camera. Suddenly 3 audio tracks turn into 6 tracks that need to be synchronized. Now add 16 tracks of music, and effect send and returns. Create sub groups and all the audio stuff. Where would one use such method? Well say a live band performance or a short for a film festival and yes even a feature production could use such a workflow.
The lack of importance given to the audio section baffles me. If audio is just something to fill the silence, why did the silent moving picture show fade away sooo quickly. If all that is being done is show images of something interesting, then there is no need at all to invest in an NLE. There are plenty of scripts that will stitch together a video for you. Should scripting not be your flavor, there are a handful of free GUI NLE. And if speed is all so important, simply download Davinci Resolve and fusion and your all set. No other product can render as fast as Resolve, and Fusion is a state of the art compositor with few rivals.Throw in free PRO Tools for audio and you have a screaming fast NLE with some of the best high end tools for free. So the question should be “Why would someone choose to pay when the best stuff is free”?
Finally although after effects is a competent compositor, I find getting the look I favor seems to be unattainable for me. I have much better success with Fusion or Nuke (on Mac). And that brings us to the point of using a dedicated app for compositing. Again I can not achieve the look of a good composite in an NLE and yes I have all the plugs to aid in that endeavour.
So you see it’s all subjective a personal choice and that’s a good thing.
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[Gilles Gagnon] ” I’m desperate”
Ok Gilles since it’s desperate times may I suggest a workflow that sometimes works.
Export as image sequence then import individual frames into media pool select all and drop on timeline. Use crossfade to fade between frames. It will take time to adjust the fades to a level that is acceptable. Experiment with a few frames say 10 or so to get the timing. Also Setting the default import duration may help speed up the process. If you use the method let me know how it works. Also I have Fusion 7 Studio which does a nice job of interpolating frames from seemingly nothing. If the above method does not work out I would be happy to try stretching the file in Fusion for you.
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No worries…