Haven't seen it, but I'd be really surprised if the transitions, split screens, dissolves, fades, and PIP were a stretch for Vegas. these are all basic functions, and again, while I've not seen it, it's no huge stretch to imagine what might be there. I've yet to see a feature film with any of those tricks that couldn't be done in Vegas. It's more special color effects, compositing, wire removal, aspect and 3D that become difficult for a tool like Vegas to duplicate in most instances.

The scene transitions used to get that "comic book panels" feel Ang was going for are fairly easy in Vegas (and many other NLEs). The traditional issue isn't that they're hard to do, just that it's easy to overuse them. Especially for new NLE users who can now "do all this fancy stuff". It becomes annoying to watch.

And that is, in fact, my main complaint with the Hulk movie.

Yeah I saw it - and was very disappointed.

The effects are very easy to duplicate in Vegas (splits, transitions, that is). But I don't even think I could put together such a dog of a movie.

The movies uses a cross blur dissolve type transition that I havent seen before in other movies or even in proigrams such as Vegas. What is this effect?

The most dissapointing thing about the movie was the actual CGI hulk. This movie is probably about 3 or 4 years ahead of where it should be or they should have used the grey hulk which would have blended in with the real world much better. Also, too many night scenes with the CGI. This is a trick that hollywood uses to disguise less than perfect FX. They do it in LOTR too.

Anybody see the movie Spawn, that came out a few years ago? Also based on a comic book. Some friends of mine got tickets to a preview so I went with them. I hated the movie but they were into it and didn't want to leave. The worst part about it was every single transition used a lightnening bolt across the screen and a Sssccchlllinggggggg! sound that was way over amplified and I couldn't fall asleep. It got tiresome by the third scene.

The FX were OK (Maya, Photoshop!, etc...) editing, don't know what they used, but Avid is a good guess.

The screenplay was crap. Trying to be overly intellectual and "sensitive" and overloaded with exposition when dealing with most comic book material is a waste of time. Spiderman, hokey FX and all, worked for the most part because the film took itself as a ... comic book.

My two cents, anyway.

For me, it's ok. One of those movies I enjoyed while watching but won't be interested in watching again.

At first, I thought the transitions were nice. PIP, splits, and others. After a while however, I coudn't pay attention to the movie because the transitions and multi-scene frames forced me to think how to achieve them in Vegas. They call attention to themselves. Although I was not annoyed, it made me realize the wisdom behind a simple cut.