Now how do we get him overe here to Sweden?

//Garo

Er . . London/UK too? - G

Or to Germany and Austria?
;)

Swedish blonds?
But seriously, the two sessions were excellent, and by some odd coincidence within an hour of arriving back I was using something I'd learned. Now if only I could remember all those shortcuts. One thing the online documentation and manual needs is better attention to task based information.
Just to give an example, Spot showed how to hide the track headers, now OK I thinks, didn't know you could do that, I'll check the online help when I get back and now I'm damned if I can find how to do it. Sure someone here will know the answer but why is it also so damn hard to find these things when you need them.
Bob.

It's in there - Shift-F11 labeled "Minimize/Restore the track list" in the help file in the "Magnification and View" section of the "Keyboard Shortcuts" category.

Or just double click the right divider in the track header, and it will disappear. Dougle click again, and it reappears.

hehehe
i won a VASST T-Shirt for sometign i said (i think it was about compositing and using nested timelines) and a Sony Soundbank library in the final raffle (that sexy black one with the 5 volumes) which is surprisingly better than good (i do alot of sound work and i have loads of this kind of stuff), but this is one of , if not the best collection (in quality and variety) that ive come across

As for teh tours, this one here in Aus was sponsored by Sony and NewMagic and for me at least, it was good to see how other people use the application on a day by day basis. There are some things i do which can get tedious (which is why i dont use premiere anymore) but we were shown numerous methods of doing certain tasks in a quarter of the time.
As a perfect example, i had always eyed off the Ultimate S package for multicam and slideshow work mainly, but due to my restricted studio budget I havent looked too far into it, however a majority of my work incorporates slideshows, which is where the sound effects come into play (subliminally at least ;) )and DSE pulled out Ultimate S and showed how multicamming works (non destructively and tweakable after the process is complete) He also showed the automation tools for said slideshow and for what i do, it would turn a 3 hour task into a 5 minute cruise (at the moment im marking sync points, importing images, matching all those images aspect to the project, and literally drawing in my panning and cropping. Not to mention the transitioning and fine tuning manually... ) so 5 minutes to me is far more valuable than spending 3 hours...
For those that have never used Vegas or were coming from other NLE's it was a good way to get into into it and to see how good the application really is and for those of us whove been using it since ye ol sonic foundry days, it was a good refresher course. Hell, half the compositing that i do in Combustion could have been done in Vegas all along (such as height and bump map compositions). To me i always thought Vegas fell down a little in that department until i was shown how to use it properly.

One thing im still waiting on though is for for sony to create an Automation control for video. How good would it be to go through a clip and literally pan a radial blur and have the keys drawn automatically for you?? I mean Vegas already does this with the surround panner and almost every other audio element.. but i guess thats one for the Vegas 7 suggestion box ;) ..

Yes, great courses and in Melbourne both were done on the same day. Sort of 14 hours straight if you ignore the 3 hours allowed for evening meal (which I missed through doing other things). So a midnight sandwich when I got home. Great audio insights and wonderful demonstrations of how quickly one can edit with Vegas. I always take my time so the demonstrations of the usefullness of fast keyboard short-cuts were most revealing. I'm about to work through my notes to see whether I can remember them! Great tips on very effective colour correction techniques. And I thought I had that stuff down pat!

Serena, it was very nice to meet you and the other members of the various fora out there. And even better to hear you learned something from the sessions, because you're clearly pretty advanced in Vegas, based on your questions in the class. Always nice to see Bob/Farss as well, along with the other forum folks from NZ and Oz.
Look for us to be back in February during TropFest.

Now it's time to head to the airport for the UGLY long flight home.

Stopover ib Singapore - we have a shortcut to the USA, fast internet access and
of course the SIA girls. Have a good trip home.