Another thread brought up the possible uses for Image Sequences in Vegas. Besides the obvious use for importing animations, they can be used to import a video clip into Photoshop, process it, and bring it back into Vegas.
Essentially, anything you can do in Photoshop, you can do in Vegas. This very simple example involved a 20 sec. HDV clip, the first half of which was exported as a still image sequence (you'll find it under Tools->Scripting).
Step two was to create an Action (really a macro) in Photoshop. I ran a very simple posterization (not natively available in Vegas), told it to save a copy in a new folder, and ran a Batch job on the whole sequence folder. Took only a few minutes.
Then it was a simple matter to bring the new sequence back into Vegas (read the help files) and put it on a track above the original. The result can be seen here (the last 10 sec. is the original video):
Be sure to double-click, then watch in 720 HD.
Essentially, anything you can do in Photoshop, you can do in Vegas. This very simple example involved a 20 sec. HDV clip, the first half of which was exported as a still image sequence (you'll find it under Tools->Scripting).
Step two was to create an Action (really a macro) in Photoshop. I ran a very simple posterization (not natively available in Vegas), told it to save a copy in a new folder, and ran a Batch job on the whole sequence folder. Took only a few minutes.
Then it was a simple matter to bring the new sequence back into Vegas (read the help files) and put it on a track above the original. The result can be seen here (the last 10 sec. is the original video):
Be sure to double-click, then watch in 720 HD.