Go and Download the Sample Projects Set! NOW! . . .please . . .

Grazie wrote on 4/21/2004, 5:10 AM
If you haven't done it already, then go and download the hefty Sample Projects from the download site.

I just learnt in the space of about 10 minutes, what I can reeeeeallly do with Bezier curves . . There's an example of throwing the focus that's truly Mind Blowing. Once you've seen this one, and understood what Sony is suggesting, then the sky IS the limit .. . well done Sony on this Project Set . .!

Go download . .. it's big . . but it IS beautiful . .

Grazie

Comments

smhontz wrote on 4/21/2004, 5:48 AM
Ok, call me a dope, but I can't find it - can you post a link?
Grazie wrote on 4/21/2004, 6:06 AM
'Ere yah GO! . . .

Vegas 5 Sample Projects (from Vegas CD)

Enjoy,

Grazie
ibliss wrote on 4/21/2004, 6:16 AM
It's only just struck me, reading your last post Grazie - do Americans/Canadians drop their H's?
ibliss wrote on 4/21/2004, 6:18 AM
Yes I think they do, "come 'ere, boy". Is it a southern thing?

Sorry, very off topic :)
Randy Brown wrote on 4/21/2004, 6:35 AM
Grazie's from England...I think that's his English pirate voice if I'm not mistaken...he just left off the "matey".
Randy
ibliss wrote on 4/21/2004, 6:53 AM
Yeah, I'm a UK bloke too, but I just struck me reading his post that I don't think you ever see Americans write " 'ere ", then I thought do they actually say(sic) it (know as dropping your H's over 'ere).
Nat wrote on 4/21/2004, 7:04 AM
Grazie is a peaceful pirate.
farss wrote on 4/21/2004, 7:23 AM
I'm tryin but first effort timed out, second one found a fatter pipe, here's hoping.
FuTz wrote on 4/21/2004, 7:26 AM
Curious... french humericans here put "Hs" everywhere when whe speak henglish... a lil' like Phe Phe le Phew...
rmack350 wrote on 4/21/2004, 7:32 AM
Sometimes it gets contracted. We might say "come-ere, you'se" but if it's a bad dog we say "come Here!"

Rob Mack
Grazie wrote on 4/21/2004, 8:11 AM
"Jim Lad! OOoo Arrrgh Pieces o' 8" . . The Gentle Pirate is back . . .

. . so . .what do others fink of the Sample Projects ?

Grazie
AlanC wrote on 4/21/2004, 8:39 AM
Grazie,

I think their too busy extracting the Michael out of your southern accent.

You should learn to talk more proper like what we do up 'ere in'th north lad!

Alan
riredale wrote on 4/21/2004, 8:55 AM
And for goodness sakes, learn how to spell the word "color" correctly.
roryk wrote on 4/21/2004, 9:06 AM
So there is a method to this madness... Now I understand why they introduced network rendering at the same time as these advanced compositing features.

ROry
Cheesehole wrote on 4/21/2004, 9:52 AM
simple text.veg
Cool but the turning back-forth motion isn't smooth enough for actual use. I changed the keyframe to "smooth" and it helped, but not enough. We really need bezier handles on keyframes before we can put all this 3d Animated Compositing to good use. (wasn't that on the list of Premiere Pro 1.5 features?)

text flythrough.veg
This is a good demo for 3d comp, but it also serves to show the limitations of Vegas's 3d rendering engine. Even if I crank the Supersampling and add some Motion blur, I can't get the jitterz out of the text when the camera and text plane are at a very narrow angle... ie. when you are looking down the "hallway" between two planes, the text in the distance is not rendered fluidly from frame to frame. You get a kind of noise. In a dedicated compositing / 3d app you would be able to eliminate that cheesiness.

cube w shadow.veg
Nice demo. This shows that the compositing engine is no slouch. A little motion blur / super sampling makes it pretty much indistinguishable from what you'd get from a dedicated 3d program.

curtis photo.veg
Wow very processor intensive, but shows what you can do with bezier masking. Since this is a still I would probably have used Photoshop to make the layers. That would cut the whole CPU intensive part out and make editing a lot easier. But I like the use of 3d Comp. I hadn't thought of it before but people are asking about "the kid stays in the picture " or the "ken burns effect", well - you need 3d comp to do it real nice and now we have it.

24p widescreen.veg
Another application for bezier masking - this time animated. People have asked about making the "writing" effect. It looks a bit tedious to set up the key frames. But then you can slow the writing waaay down by CTRL stretching the event, which is pretty cool. Makes it easier to re-purpose the clip so invested time is not wasted.

rack_focus.veg

I have to say the overall rack focus effect looks pretty fake, but it looks real easy to set up.

They were worth checking out, but I'm sure people will come up with better demos of the new stuff. These are mostly about bezier masks and 3d comps... I'm more interested in other aspects of the new Vegas. Good trip though.
stormstereo wrote on 4/21/2004, 10:37 AM
"We really need bezier handles on keyframes before we can put all this 3d Animated Compositing to good use."

Totally agree, I want that. Please suggest to SONY.
And the ability to draw a path for text to follow. Or a still. Or anything else.

Best/Tommy
Cheesehole wrote on 4/21/2004, 11:12 AM
I've been asking for bezier curves with handles on the keyframes since Vegas 2. But I just hit the product suggestion page again.. this time armed with the fact that Premiere Pro 1.5 has them, and the fact that the compositing / animation elements of Vegas have far far outgrown the cheesy Smooth, Fast, Slow presets at this point. It truly is a limiting factor and has been for a long time.