I am a newcomer to Vegas and also a newcomer to digital video editing. I am gonna be doing this at a personal level, but I like to use quality, powerful software.
For a little over a week I have tried several other "trial" versions and one by one they all failed me. Vegas is the one that survived.
The trial version that Adobe provides for Premiere absolutely sucks. The retail may be better but I am not willing to spend that much money without getting to do a decent trial.
I also tried Ulead's MediaStudio Pro which seemed powerful but it drove me crazy with settings changing by themselves and not being able to get back. I was also disappointed because the final rendering to MPEG2 seemed to be rather poor mainly when the scene changed rapidly. It could have been that I did not have the right options set.
Vegas demo does not allow rendering to MPEG2 but I was very pleased with the quality of the AVI. And I just hope that once I buy the retail of Vegas+DVD the MPEG2 files will be OK.
The camera I have is the Sony DCR-DVD300 and the software that comes with it (Pixela ImageMixer) is just about useless. The only need I have for it is to retrieve the video clips from the camera. Hopefully in the near future Sony will include a stripped down version of Vegas with their cameras.
I have read quite a few posts in here and I do have some questions of my own:
1. I have not seen in Vegas the ability to import video from the MiniDVD directly. Is that possible with the unlocked version? I know that Ulead's MediaStudio Pro can do it. If not, what other choices do I have (freeware or shareware). I would like to be able to import the files from MiniDVDs formatted in Video mode as well as VR mode.
2. I would appreciate a link to a website that has a decent tutorial in video editing.
3. I suppose that in order to preserve video quality I should stay away from MPEG2 until the final rendering and that I should do all editing in AVI format. Would that be uncompressed AVI? Is AVI compression lossless?
Thank you,
John
For a little over a week I have tried several other "trial" versions and one by one they all failed me. Vegas is the one that survived.
The trial version that Adobe provides for Premiere absolutely sucks. The retail may be better but I am not willing to spend that much money without getting to do a decent trial.
I also tried Ulead's MediaStudio Pro which seemed powerful but it drove me crazy with settings changing by themselves and not being able to get back. I was also disappointed because the final rendering to MPEG2 seemed to be rather poor mainly when the scene changed rapidly. It could have been that I did not have the right options set.
Vegas demo does not allow rendering to MPEG2 but I was very pleased with the quality of the AVI. And I just hope that once I buy the retail of Vegas+DVD the MPEG2 files will be OK.
The camera I have is the Sony DCR-DVD300 and the software that comes with it (Pixela ImageMixer) is just about useless. The only need I have for it is to retrieve the video clips from the camera. Hopefully in the near future Sony will include a stripped down version of Vegas with their cameras.
I have read quite a few posts in here and I do have some questions of my own:
1. I have not seen in Vegas the ability to import video from the MiniDVD directly. Is that possible with the unlocked version? I know that Ulead's MediaStudio Pro can do it. If not, what other choices do I have (freeware or shareware). I would like to be able to import the files from MiniDVDs formatted in Video mode as well as VR mode.
2. I would appreciate a link to a website that has a decent tutorial in video editing.
3. I suppose that in order to preserve video quality I should stay away from MPEG2 until the final rendering and that I should do all editing in AVI format. Would that be uncompressed AVI? Is AVI compression lossless?
Thank you,
John