Just thought I'd share this bit of time saving workflow for anyone who may not have thought of it.
When I have a large comp requiring pre-planning, and syncing to audio, I use Vegas to make all my audio with very basic plates of the action/activity, with everything timed out. Then I export that sequence and audio to AE and can build it all to the audio in one go, w/o having to do the slow (for me) waveform audio in AE or the unpleasant manual timing with the numpad's decimal key.
Other times I use Vegas to rough cut chroma key sequences that are going to be a bear to do in a normal keying solution like Vegas Pro ( let's be honest, there are much better keying solutions out there than found in Vegas Pro, though the one in Vegas can do the job for certain things just fine ). I take EX-1 clips for example, and cut them down to just the rough stuff that I'll need to key, no-recompress render it out, and drop it in my keyer of choice, having lost no quality, and having exactly what I want to key all ready to go in one simple file.
Hope these tips save you some time while doing your compositing work.
Dave
When I have a large comp requiring pre-planning, and syncing to audio, I use Vegas to make all my audio with very basic plates of the action/activity, with everything timed out. Then I export that sequence and audio to AE and can build it all to the audio in one go, w/o having to do the slow (for me) waveform audio in AE or the unpleasant manual timing with the numpad's decimal key.
Other times I use Vegas to rough cut chroma key sequences that are going to be a bear to do in a normal keying solution like Vegas Pro ( let's be honest, there are much better keying solutions out there than found in Vegas Pro, though the one in Vegas can do the job for certain things just fine ). I take EX-1 clips for example, and cut them down to just the rough stuff that I'll need to key, no-recompress render it out, and drop it in my keyer of choice, having lost no quality, and having exactly what I want to key all ready to go in one simple file.
Hope these tips save you some time while doing your compositing work.
Dave
