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Astronuts wrote on 11/4/2004, 10:16 PM
Yes I have. Here's my opinion of what i think the benefits and drawbacks are;

Combustion:
PLUS: Discreet CC is GREAT - lots of tool, lots of control, all applied in a single filter. Realtime preview via 1394 - (but not RT playback). Fine control, 6 (?) storable 'profiles'/colour sets. Can CC in 16bit/float
NEGS: No scopes, playback is slow even with DV and a good raid setup. It has an 'edit' operator - but is NOT an editor.

Vegas
PLUS: All the tools you'd need, Good set of scopes, realtime preview/playback (sort of).
NEGS: Different tools are separate plugins that you chain up. HSL/Curves etc Some (I find) a bit clunky. Fine control (I find) a bit of a challenge, No profile storage (that i know of). no 16bit/Float.

You can get the job done in both with practice - from a strictly video workflow point of view, I'd say get used to Vegas' tools - and then you don't have to go to an outside program to do your corrections. Vegas is pushing towards being an 'all in one application' - which I think is great - never mind buying a 'suite' of apps to get the job done - just buy one! It's already got the best audio tools of any software NLE, it also does masking and comping - It's not there yet but I think another couple of incarnations and it'll be seriously A-grade.

An opinion.

Best,

DW.
GaryKleiner wrote on 11/4/2004, 10:30 PM
<Fine control (I find) a bit of a challenge, No profile storage (that i know of).<

Fine control: Hold down the Ctrl key

Profile Storage: Create a preset


Gary
skibumm101 wrote on 11/4/2004, 11:16 PM
No worries on buying another product. i already own Combustion and Vegas 5. I have used Combustion for many other things that it does better keying, motion tracking, compositing. Not saying that vegas cant do it great, just that combustion can do it better and easier.(my opinion of course) So if you had both Gary and otheres would you use combustion cc or just stivk to vegas.
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/5/2004, 1:59 AM
Combustion has some better "layouts" for color correction, but overall, I find Vegas faster. But that's also what I use regularly. On the other hand, Combustion has some different ways of looking at the same tools.
You might try, Skibumm, to create a floating dock of all the C/C tools in one dock. That's my main workflow, and then I've got what I need all at once.
Combustion is definitely a little better at keying bad greenscreen footage.
skibumm101 wrote on 11/5/2004, 9:12 AM
Thanks spot, thats exactly what i was looking for.