Mixer Console. How about FX Mixer Console too?

Grazie wrote on 11/1/2007, 2:13 AM

This is how it started . . ..

Editing a Pub Band .. don't ask . .

I am "creatively" using the Spotlight in Bump Map.

I'm wandering the "Spotlight" around - but it keeps coming back to a rest position. Grazie looks for a "latching" command. Must'ved overlooked that somewhere??? Anyways this was a short, mental hop skip and jump to .. Hey! Why not a latching-thingie WITHIN a Video Mixing Board - A video mixing board that DOES have Fxs as "sends" - or whatever they are called . .

What do you think fellow/sistren-Vegists? Or am I completely off-me-rocker?

Regards,

Grazie

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farss wrote on 11/1/2007, 3:34 AM

I seem to recall having suggested this several times over the years meself. Multiple video busses etc, etc so that the video thing works much the same as the audio thing.
For example I oftenly want to apply motion blur to just some of my video tracks. At the moment I have to render them out and bring them into a new project.
Or I have several things composited together and I want them to all fade out as one. Putting fades on the end of each of the events is not exactly the same thing. If I could send those groups of tracks to their own bus and use a composite envelope there my problem is solved.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 11/1/2007, 3:54 AM

drip . . drip . . drip . .

Well, maybe, with the Mixing Console and Vegas coming from an audio background and seeing the value of doing video - then - that maybe YOUR idea can be Lazarus-like, resurrected?

To me, a Video Fx Mixing Console, just seems too tantalizingly obvious? Now we DO have it for AUDIO.

Grazie

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rmack350 wrote on 11/1/2007, 12:56 PM

I've hinted at this sort of thing once or twice. Vegas is darned close to being usable as a VJ application and with a control surface might be quite usable. It's a market that would actually be quite natural for Madison and the advantage is that they can secure a young base of users who might well be customers for the next 20 years.

Some links:
http://createdigitalmotion.com/

An interesting looking show mixer http://www.lividinstruments.com/software_cell.php

I don't use this stuff and haven't even been to a show where VJ-ing was being done, but it interests me none-the-less.

Rob

Oh, yeah...in Vegas it seems the best you could do is put effects onto the output. Or, I suppose you could make a render and then put the same clip on multiple tracks, each with their own sets of filters. Then you could run the track opacities up and down to change the effects.