I just spent 3 hours editing a video and burning a DVD for a friend of mine who bought Vegas after seeing what I've been able to do with it. The amazing part was I did it from 60 miles away using a desktop sharing utility offered for free by CROSSLOOP.
It started out as a live tutorial but my friend had to leave the house for an hour. So I told him to leave Crossloop running and I'd finish up the edits and start the render. Turns out his wife was home and when I started playing back the video she heard the music coming from her husband's office and was startled to see the mouse moving around and editing her husband's video.
I ended up finishing the renders and setting up a DVD Arch project. I prepared the file for burning but couldn't exactly load the DVD into the tray. So I open up notpad on his computer and typed him out a little note that I left under the "burn" button.
What a great little app crossloops turned out to be and it's simple enough to get a computer dumby on the other end to set up. It's sort of like Netmeeting but isn't as falable and much simpler to use. Turns out it's good for playing practical jokes too. Performance while editing video was a bit laggy and playback of video was practically useless - and there's no audio. But I was able to manage quite well by feel.
When all was done we started another session where I showed him how to upload the video to Vimeo... I'm looking forward to seeing it for the first time when it's done converting!
It started out as a live tutorial but my friend had to leave the house for an hour. So I told him to leave Crossloop running and I'd finish up the edits and start the render. Turns out his wife was home and when I started playing back the video she heard the music coming from her husband's office and was startled to see the mouse moving around and editing her husband's video.
I ended up finishing the renders and setting up a DVD Arch project. I prepared the file for burning but couldn't exactly load the DVD into the tray. So I open up notpad on his computer and typed him out a little note that I left under the "burn" button.
What a great little app crossloops turned out to be and it's simple enough to get a computer dumby on the other end to set up. It's sort of like Netmeeting but isn't as falable and much simpler to use. Turns out it's good for playing practical jokes too. Performance while editing video was a bit laggy and playback of video was practically useless - and there's no audio. But I was able to manage quite well by feel.
When all was done we started another session where I showed him how to upload the video to Vimeo... I'm looking forward to seeing it for the first time when it's done converting!