[Stewart Bourke]

Pierre,

Many thanks for the prompt response. I changes to ‘premultiplied, dirty and it seems to have stopped the warnings – but we will see.

Thanks again.

[Stewart Bourke]

Alan,

Wow – thanks for the prompt and accurate response!! I get it now – I was thinking I needed some sort of velocity setting, but because of the keyframing on the size, that regulates the ‘speed’ they appear to grow.

One last question – can I duplicate the keyframes/graph of the settings for ‘size over life ‘from one item to another – there are about six separate emitters and if I could copy this particular set of keyframes/settings to the other five it would be helpful.

Thanks.

[Stewart Bourke]

I bought Boris BCC8 for Vegas, and have to say that I am deeply dissappointed in the documentation in so far as it references vegas. I would love to use many of the effects, but there are just enough differences between the vegas versions and the AE vesions to make it very difficult to learn how to use them. I have never used AE, nor premiere, nor FCP – so when I see something that is ‘an easy jump from AE’ for example, I find it never quite works as expected.

BCC is a professional environment – I get that – and when the tools work they are superb e.g. the Chroma Keyer, corner pin etc – have allowed me do some really cool things. I expect there to be a learning curve with any new tool. However, the docs supplied are references, not ‘how-to’ and they refer to all the various parameters on the assumption that you know what they are for… If it were not for John Rofrano’s tutorials I would be lost. And I know there are many, many features I am not using, simply because I don’t know they are there…

This is not rant – just an opinion… the tools work – I just wish it was a little easier for a Vegas user to get to know ho to use them in Vegas, not another NLE and have to try and figure out how they work there first…

[Stewart Bourke]

Theo,

Thanks for that – I had seen that tutorial. However, I am a little confused on one point.

In Mocha I was able to setup some masks to follow the tracking data to mask out the specific talent. However, I cannot see how to import these masks into Vegas. I may be confusing two things, but how do I import the masks into Vegas? Or do I have to import the tracking data and redraw the masks manually?

Thanks,

Stewart

[Stewart Bourke]

James,

I agree – this is a tall order. If I am going to use it, I want it to look somewhat realistic – it will be used for some effects in a stage-school’s annual show later in the year, so I am looking at how feasible this will be before committing to using it… I am also using this as an excuse to learn practice/learn new skills.

[Stewart Bourke]

Still working on this – I am educating myself before next season’s shows so I will have not have to start from scratch – will post something when I feel it is worth viewing…

Thanks for the interest.

[Stewart Bourke]

Studio does not support nesting – it is a feature of the pro version. For me, it was one of the reasons that I moved from Studio to Pro, having come to VMS from Pinnacle 11.

Nesting is superb – as is the ability to edit the project directly from the timeline in another instance of VP. Saves huge amount of rendering and then embedding the rendered file into your timeline.

You treat any vegas project as just another piece of media, dragging it directly onto your timeline,move it around, and then when you render your project, all nested projects are rendered too.

Hope this helps.

[Stewart Bourke]

Slightly OT, but could you please identify the music that was used for the trailer – excellent piece of music and I really liked the editing of the video as well.

Thank you.

[Stewart Bourke]

I agree with Philip.

I use a small set of the emitters all the time and modify them to suit. Frankly, if I need something special for a once-off effect I have always found something that I can amend in the current library. The number of emitters in the current library is huge.

I also notice that despite Alan asking a few times, there was no huge rush back to him with suggestions for new emitters.

PI is excellent, and the quality (for me at least, mainly used in projections) is excellent.

I would echo the 64 bit requirement, but I would also like to be able to use the emitters in 3d space rather than reverting to lots of masking and keyframing.

What would be really welcome for me would be some tutorials on creating emitters. For example, if you take the last few emitter packs released, and take one or two from each of those – a tutorial in how they were created would be very helpful.

Thanks

STBO

[Stewart Bourke]

Peter,

Thank you for your quick response.

I found that – thank you – I guess I need to spend less time reading the actual docs, and more time actually going through each of the properties. I had become hung-up about trying to work with the pixel chooser.

That works perfectly (and gives a superb effect).

Thank you again.

Stewart