Kudos to Vegas Movie Studio 8

Deloresw wrote on 8/14/2007, 12:43 AM
I am amazed and SO IMPRESSED! I had three slideshows ready to render and burn, but discovered I needed to add more text to two maps I am using. I made the revisions on my originals in Microsoft Publisher and moved the first slides out of the respective folders and used the same names for the replacements.

I was dreading trying to delete and insert the slides in Movie Studio with the revisions, but much to my surprise, Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 had automatically corrected the slides! Now, how smart is that!

Other people probably knew this would happen, but I am new at this so it was an unexpected surprise. I am now ready to render and burn the three slideshows. Hallelujah!

Deloresw

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 8/14/2007, 2:14 AM
This is explained by what NLE stands for: non linear editing. Vegas leaves the original files as they are, and show a nice preview generated in real time, without 'destroying' the original. Your approach was very clever, in that sense. The same should work with video files, which opens even more perspectives. The really spectacular thing here imho is that Vegas stays stable and doesn't crash. Any other video editing program would go to a halt as soon as you even tried doing this.

Being a novice Vegas user as well, I experience the same 'halelua' euphoria again and again, as I discover new features all the time. (I recently discovered how to take away noise from low lit footage, an effect hidden under away under the median-effect).
mickbadal wrote on 8/14/2007, 4:53 AM
The thing I think is really cool about VMS is that it will recognize a file change like this while it is open, on-the-fly. I would've expected (as in many apps) that you would have to select the media in VMS and ask it to refresh, but you don't have to. I find this very useful as I'm tweaking a still that I'm using in VMS. Put the still on the VMS timeline, open it in Photoshop, tweak it and save, go back to VMS, voila! it's already updated on the VMS timeline.

Very nice.
MIKE P wrote on 8/15/2007, 9:53 AM
Yeah, tis true. I was doing a bunch of cropping of stills that are in a timeline and as I would save them, boom, Vegas would update, inclduding the preview window, so I could check results immediatly. Pretty handy.