"Life will become awfully dull!" - Mike, that's one of the nicest things someone has said to me - THANK YOU!

Seriously though, I thank you: IanG, Chienworks, BillBoy, Stiffler etc, etc .... and, and the wise old P_L .... and and the person who got me involved with you lot THE ONE AND ONLY VinceG! and and and our NEw Kid on the block - Santos - hiyah too! - for all your very helpful support over the months - I've looked at the VV site for 4 months now - ooooher! A bit straight-laced. What d'yer think I should do 'bout it? I feel a big RED clown-nose coming on! Yes they are serious and YES I know I will get a lot of support - maybe I'll find my option for humour here? Waddya fink peeps?

Mikey - Yer'know if you have been naughty or nice! Santa also needs to be told these things. - Personally, I think you should get a copy just for the nice thing you said 'bout me......

Nah - how could I leave you lot!

Big hugs and kisses [you know who you are for the kisses XXXXXxxxxx!]

Grazie

ps - I'm still waiting for UPS -It's now 10:20am Friday 13th - C'mon delivery guy!

Going up to the big league eh. Don't forget us or I'll start a 'Keep our Grazie' petition.

LAz! LAZ! LAZ! LAZ! - I DID forget you! Sorry! This is not an augory - I'LL BE BACK OFTEN. I'm also going to signed up with BT Broadband today - Soooo I think I'll be here to stay - I wonder if I can get a re-direct betwix VF and VF - Now there's a thought!

Thanks LAZie - or is that ......?

Regards

Grazie

Grazie: woooooooo! Congrats :)

I think the only two things that confused me when i switched from VideoFactory to Vegas were 1) no predefined tracks. It confused the heck out of me to see a blank screen without two video tracks and three audio tracks already there. It probably only took me about a minute to get over it though; just add your own tracks ... as many as you need! 2) in the effects screens the Start and End buttons are gone. However, they're replaced by vastly more powerful keyframes.

Other than that, the transition went swimmingly well. Both programs can live happily together on the same computer, and Vegas even opens up VF projects.

Enjoy!

Thanks Chienworks for the tip on the minimalist approach on dropping in clips... Zen or what!

No "Start" and "End" Button - I've never known when to "start" or come to that, "End"... I just go on and on and o n a n d .. . .. . on ..... ;)

OOOoooh can't wait!

Grazie

I've tried the Vegas demo (still haven't made the plunge yet). Without reading the manual, I could do almost everything. However, there were a few things I had to read the manual to figure out.

1) Creating masks. Once you figure it out, you can do some really amazing things without resorting to a chroma key. (Look for the arrow pointing up next to the video track).

2) In VF, at the bottom of the track FX screens, there are little transport buttons (Play, Stop) so you can preview your changes. In Vegas, those buttons are missing (what?!) so you have to move the track FX window to the side and use the timeline controls. This is the one thing in Vegas that really bugs me. Maybe I'm missing something?

3) Audio busses. I still don't get this one (I'm not really heavy into audio).

I'm about to take the plunge myself. I haven't really mastered VF yet, but I know i'm going to VV so I may as well start the learning curve now;) Sounds like you went for the boxed version. I'm debating whether to go that route or just DL. I'm assuming if I DL I don't get sample content, or am I mistaken? Given the more powerful features in VV I can see myself actually want to spend some time with the tutorials and samples.