How would you do this series of projects in Vegas

D7K wrote on 11/2/2018, 9:44 AM

I am doing a series of short video's on photography as art in Vegas 16. Each short will be between 3 and 5 minutes long. There will be a mixture of 4K and large JPEGS (for Ken Burns effect) probably 6 to 10 of these images. Each image will have effects and LUTS applied, perhaps a bit of re-sharpen on some images. Final product will be both 1080 & 4K. Is it better to do it images as a separate projects and then nest as one project or just do it as one project. Quality will be important, so I've decide to manually create the slide shows rather than use other tools like export from LR or PowerPoint which are too low resolution on the export of the their slide shows.

Any ideas gratefully accepted as this is going to be most of my editing this winter.

I7700/4200 hz 32 gig ram AMD480 8 gig SSD's Windows PRO Vegas 16

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rraud wrote on 11/2/2018, 1:23 PM

I'm doing a series of art history lectures (landscape painting). To get the lecturer's PP images (with or w/o the PP titles/text), I grab screenshots (my preferred SS capture is w/ Lightshot), the quality is much better than exporting the compressed images from PP. I nest the segments that are universal to all the lectures... intro, outro, disclaimers and such. The paintings are all over the world so I cant rephotograph them, nor does the client have deep pockets.

john_dennis wrote on 11/2/2018, 2:43 PM

I'd probably nest the stills just to protect them from actions done in the main project. I've done it both ways. Nesting sometimes gives you more flexibility. I have some slide show projects that I can drop stills into quickly with dependable results. Others here report that they would never nest anything.

D7K wrote on 11/3/2018, 11:12 AM

I am going to do each segments and see how that works.

zdogg wrote on 11/3/2018, 1:41 PM

I would set my effects, get the exact LOOK i'd want, then render each in a lossless format, or maybe better, JPG (someone else might know better on that) then I would set them on a timeline and do your Ken Burns. You could also render them all at once, back to back to back, then just split them and manipulate them. (Vasst Render Assistant and Vasst products for Vegas slide shows (forget name) or worthy considerations, and the render assistant is like $12.) Advantage: you playback will be much smoother as you get your motion and transitions looking the way you'd want. fx would produce lag, more than likely.

Musicvid wrote on 11/3/2018, 9:10 PM

There will be a mixture of 4K and large JPEGS

Yes, that will be your mastering format, understood.

However, if you plan on being able to stream your product to the masses, best to stick with a delivery format of 1080p, tops.

D7K wrote on 11/4/2018, 9:29 AM

4K will be archival masters mostly, 1080P distributed.