Well, after dinking around with shorts and wedding videos, I just finished cutting a short subject documentary on hockey promotions, which for us was a big project. By that I mean:
--8 Hours of footage between 3 Cameras
--4 Hours of Sound on MiniDisc from two mics
--Mainly Digital8 footage, some Hi8
This was for a college documentary course, but given that that's really our only tie to the class (we edited all in my basement instead of dinking around with their two Pinnacle/Premiere bays), we want to take it around to any festival that'll take us.
What even made it better was what we could do to it in Vegas 4 -- a 5.1 surround mix and rendering it out as 24p (from all 60i footage). We rendered it out cold to 24p (without deinterlace or disabling resampling) and our jaws dropped when we watched it. We've been told that it looked like it was shot on 16mm. That's a big compliment. We also have been working on doing a 5.1 mix, which has been great considering shooting at a hockey game gives you a lot of ambient sounds you can steer to the surrounds. The thing looks so much better than what people have been trying to do on the Pinnacles or Avid Express' on campus.
We screen our rough cut for final grading tomorrow (in the campus theatre with a Dolby Digital setup so we'll see what we're sounding like so far). We're getting really anxious to see what the reaction is.
But yet again, we could never have done it without Vegas. The crew, who had been so indoctrinated in the Pinnacle/Avids on campus were floored by Vegas when they first used it. A couple wanted to know how to get it. That's a good sign.
Thanks again to everybody who's given me advice over the past months (here or elsewhere). I gave a few of you (Dr. Dropout and Douglas Spotted Eagle, etc.) credit in our "Special Thanks," very deservedly. We also made certain to give SoFo and Vegas all due credit at the end.
We should have a website up soon with clips. Otherwise, watch out for us in the next months as we try to see what kind of life this project may have.
Mark
--8 Hours of footage between 3 Cameras
--4 Hours of Sound on MiniDisc from two mics
--Mainly Digital8 footage, some Hi8
This was for a college documentary course, but given that that's really our only tie to the class (we edited all in my basement instead of dinking around with their two Pinnacle/Premiere bays), we want to take it around to any festival that'll take us.
What even made it better was what we could do to it in Vegas 4 -- a 5.1 surround mix and rendering it out as 24p (from all 60i footage). We rendered it out cold to 24p (without deinterlace or disabling resampling) and our jaws dropped when we watched it. We've been told that it looked like it was shot on 16mm. That's a big compliment. We also have been working on doing a 5.1 mix, which has been great considering shooting at a hockey game gives you a lot of ambient sounds you can steer to the surrounds. The thing looks so much better than what people have been trying to do on the Pinnacles or Avid Express' on campus.
We screen our rough cut for final grading tomorrow (in the campus theatre with a Dolby Digital setup so we'll see what we're sounding like so far). We're getting really anxious to see what the reaction is.
But yet again, we could never have done it without Vegas. The crew, who had been so indoctrinated in the Pinnacle/Avids on campus were floored by Vegas when they first used it. A couple wanted to know how to get it. That's a good sign.
Thanks again to everybody who's given me advice over the past months (here or elsewhere). I gave a few of you (Dr. Dropout and Douglas Spotted Eagle, etc.) credit in our "Special Thanks," very deservedly. We also made certain to give SoFo and Vegas all due credit at the end.
We should have a website up soon with clips. Otherwise, watch out for us in the next months as we try to see what kind of life this project may have.
Mark