I pretty much started in the video world a couple years ago with Vegas. I was never a user of any other NLE. I started with Vegas, loved it so I had no reason to bother to try others.
I remember the first time I found velocity envelopes. I wanted to slow down a clip. Not reading the manual (because I'm too lazy to read manuals) I just started my normal process of figuring out how to do something I wanted to do. Being a competant windows user, I of course started with the good ole right click menu. I saw something labeled 'velocity envelope'. Well, I knew that velocity was a term that had something to do with the speed of things so I thought I'd give it a try. I clicked on it and saw that it created this green line through the clip. I quickly discovered that by moving the green line up and down I was given exactly what I was looking for! Upon further investigating (right clicking) I found that by adding points on the line I could easily vary the speed on one clip. I could say, start out at 0% speed, gradually increase to 100% and then slow back down, all on the same clip. Ahhhhhh, memories.
What's my point? I just saw on another forum a post from a Premiere user asking to do this exact effect. He was told that it could not be done with Premiere! Could not be done!!
A friend of mine is a FCP user and could not do this effect without a third party plug in until the most recent version!!
It blew me away. Here is an option that was there from the begining in Vegas. THat I was able to find very easily. That made it so I did not have to spend hours trying to figure it out. That made it so I did not have to buy extra plug ins.
So easy in fact, that I just took it for granted, thinking that it was a standard tool that was surely in all NLE's.
It's amazing sometimes, the little things that Vegas offers that we might take for granted while others are racking their brains or shelling out extra cash for.
Maybe the people on the other forum were wrong even. Maybe you can do it in Premiere Pro. Even so, They have paused their editing to try and figure it out, while Vegas allowed me to see it right away and concentrate on figuring out what to edit, not how to. And that, is the beauty of this software.
Any other Vegas features out there that we take for granted?
Excuse my rambling, I just felt like a throwing out a positive vibe after reading through all the rants of late.
-Shon
I remember the first time I found velocity envelopes. I wanted to slow down a clip. Not reading the manual (because I'm too lazy to read manuals) I just started my normal process of figuring out how to do something I wanted to do. Being a competant windows user, I of course started with the good ole right click menu. I saw something labeled 'velocity envelope'. Well, I knew that velocity was a term that had something to do with the speed of things so I thought I'd give it a try. I clicked on it and saw that it created this green line through the clip. I quickly discovered that by moving the green line up and down I was given exactly what I was looking for! Upon further investigating (right clicking) I found that by adding points on the line I could easily vary the speed on one clip. I could say, start out at 0% speed, gradually increase to 100% and then slow back down, all on the same clip. Ahhhhhh, memories.
What's my point? I just saw on another forum a post from a Premiere user asking to do this exact effect. He was told that it could not be done with Premiere! Could not be done!!
A friend of mine is a FCP user and could not do this effect without a third party plug in until the most recent version!!
It blew me away. Here is an option that was there from the begining in Vegas. THat I was able to find very easily. That made it so I did not have to spend hours trying to figure it out. That made it so I did not have to buy extra plug ins.
So easy in fact, that I just took it for granted, thinking that it was a standard tool that was surely in all NLE's.
It's amazing sometimes, the little things that Vegas offers that we might take for granted while others are racking their brains or shelling out extra cash for.
Maybe the people on the other forum were wrong even. Maybe you can do it in Premiere Pro. Even so, They have paused their editing to try and figure it out, while Vegas allowed me to see it right away and concentrate on figuring out what to edit, not how to. And that, is the beauty of this software.
Any other Vegas features out there that we take for granted?
Excuse my rambling, I just felt like a throwing out a positive vibe after reading through all the rants of late.
-Shon