[Ucinema]

Well, I see afew people beating up on the person who made the original post. I think people need to chil-lax. I do however find it hard to believe that the tutorials from Lynda.com served no purpose in that you learned nothing different than what can be done in Sony Vegas.

I love Sony Vegas, especially Vegas Pro. It’s my choice application for HD and DV editing when the final format isn’t film. If I’m goingt o transfer to film I use Avid HD. The ease of use and just the overall program trumps(in my opinion) Premiere pro and Final Cut. Vegas was first to offer HD editing over Final cut, Premiere and Avid Xpress. Final Cut 3-4 you had to get the cinema tools plugins and so on.

Vegas suffers in the industry because it’s not a popular application and because of this a lot of plugins aren’t made for it.

I do agree that you can do a lot in Vegas Pro…32bit color and some powerful plugins that are also used in AE. Boris Red and Magic Bullet editors are two popular plugins that are made for industry standard apps like AE but they’re also wonderful plugins for Vegas pro.

It’s great because Boris FX acts like AE and what’s also cool is you never have to leave Vegas, you can cut and add post effects using Boris FX. In Boris FX you also get a very, very popular plugin for AE called Sapphire. You can use Sapphire in Vegas Pro through Boris FX.

Now AE is another animal and it’s worth every penny!!! I love AE as well…I also love Combustion and Fusion for compositing.

I use Cinema 4d and 3D Studio Max as well but I would not render camera movement or light changes in those apps because the render time of quality CGI takes a long time. I’d out the 3D image as a AE file with the G buffer intact and use the camera in AE.

To make a long post a little shorter. USE VEGAS PRO and use much effects as you can (workflow reasons)and also use AE or the like app if you REALLY WANT to do amazing things or the ability to do more things!!