Just in to VV3 from Cinestream, Tips?

PhilinCT wrote on 8/17/2002, 9:48 AM
Hi group...
Just switched over from CS3, I have a Win-xp machine made for Video work, any tips from you all before I load VV would be greatly appreciated.

I shoot a GL1 and a Sony 250dv/DVCam. I export to tape mostly in DVCAM and thru cleaner for CDROMs. I also creat most of my graphics in photoshop.

Thanks for any pre-edit advice you can give me. Also I have many clips saved on my drives from CS3, they are all quicktimes, any hope of using them in VV3?

Phil

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Cheesehole wrote on 8/17/2002, 3:34 PM
>>>I shoot a GL1 and a Sony 250dv/DVCam. I export to tape mostly in DVCAM and thru cleaner for CDROMs. I also creat most of my graphics in photoshop.

I also use a GL1 with a Sony DSR-11 DVCAM deck. works great. PNG files seem to work consistently with VV3 (with or w/o alpha channel) so think about that when exporting from Photoshop. Vegas can also export to VCD, but I haven't tried it.

Your quicktime footage should work. give it a try just drop it on the timeline and if it works it works. if it doesn't you might be able to use another utility to convert it.
seeker wrote on 8/17/2002, 8:19 PM
Phil,

> "Also I have many clips saved on my drives from CS3, they are all quicktimes, any hope of using them in VV3? " <

As Cheesehole said, the .MOVs should work. Sometimes they might use a CODEC you don't have on your system, in which case you might go on a quest for that CODEC. But first, just import the .MOVs into your Media Pool, and then drag one to your Track View area. If it needs a CODEC you will get a dialog box saying so. Otherwise, you are ready to preview the track and start editing with it.

-- Burton --
taliesin wrote on 8/18/2002, 6:58 AM
Phil,

I use both CineStream and Vegas Video on same system. File exchange from CineStream into Vegas Video works fine. Playback of that Quicktime-clips in Vegas Video is jerky then because VV has to do some kind of double encoding for the preview but it works.
You can even have different formats/codecs in one track, have dissolves between them.

If you'd like to avoid jerky playback of CineStream's Quicktime-clips you should render the files in Vegas Video to a new track and use the AVI-files then.

Marco
Hapeman wrote on 8/18/2002, 11:19 PM
Phil,

I came to Vegas Video from Edit DV 2.0. You'll love the difference. Light years ahead of Cinestream. The preview screen permits you to view titles overlays, transitions, etc. without rendering. Something we could never do in Cinestream.

Audio features in VV are excellent.

I have had trouble with EditDV Quicktime .MOV files. They import into VV fine and playback on the timeline okay. But when I print to DV tape, the audio disappears. Technical support said there was a problem with how VV converts .MOV files. It will be fixed in a future release. HTH.

Doug
taliesin wrote on 8/19/2002, 5:46 AM
Yeah, lots of cool things in VV. But three points are far behind from CineStream:

1. Media-Management
2. Timeline-Editing
3. Chroma-Keying

Anyway - it's worth joining!

Marco
PhilinCT wrote on 8/19/2002, 6:33 PM
Thanks Guys.
I am looking forward to getting started. I have enjoyed the active cinestream members group in the past and am happy to see VV3 has it's own set of active members.

I am sure i will be back here with a few questions in the near future

Phil