[Todor Fay]

Removing echo is extremely hard because the processor needs to understand which components of the sound are the echo and which are original, dry signal. There are, however, some techniques that can help a lot. A dynamic noise reducer that fades out the signal below a threshold might do the trick for you. Even simpler, an auto mute that cuts out the sound below that threshold might work.

As it just so happens… NewBlue has an audio clean up suite that includes these two tools as well as other techniques including powerful FFT based noise reduction. https://www.newbluefx.com/scrubbers.html

You can download the trial and test the different tools and see if one does it for you. If Auto Mute is your answer, you are in luck: Each of our VST collections includes one free tool, and Auto Mute is the freebie in the Scrubbers collection.

Good luck!

Todor Fay
NewBlue, Inc.

[Todor Fay]

You may be able to accomplish what you need with our Colorize effect. Colorize lets you isolate individual colors in the image and paint only them (and close hues under your control) leaving other colors black and white. If your subject uses some different colors from the background, you should be able to pull it off.

Best way to find out is to give it a try. You can download the effect and try it out, see if it works for your scene. If it does work, it will be insanely easy.

We have a short tutorial on Colorize at https://www.newbluefx.com/art_effects.html.

If Colorize does solve it for you, we’re still running our introductory special for the Vegas community: Order both Motion Effects and Art Effects and get $40 off. Just type in the coupon code CPNINTROVIDEO after selecting both.

Good luck!

Todor Fay,
NewBlue, Inc.

[Todor Fay]

You might also try our Motion Effects plugins. Two of the effects, Earthquake and Active Camera, should do a good job of simulating that movement for you. You can read up about these and download unlimited trial versions from https://www.newbluefx.com/motion_effects.html.

BTW, If you are interested in that and Art Effects, we have an introductory 25% discount for our Vegas users. (use coupon CPNINTROVIDEO)

Thanks,

Todor
NewBlue, Inc.

[Todor Fay]

I don’t have contact info for some of you whom have offered to test. You can send an email to info@newblueinc.com.

Thanks,

Todor

[Todor Fay]

Currently no, but we do intend to port to Premiere next.

Todor

PS. Thanks to everybody who has responded. We are preparing materials and will be getting back to you soon.

[Todor Fay]

The Video Effects should because the plug in format has not changed. Good reason to have someone with Vegas 4 pound on them.

The Audio Effects will not work with Vegas 4, because they are VST format and if I recall correctly, Vegas 4 doesn’t support VST.

Todor