ot - uni course pitch for vegas...

ushere wrote on 11/17/2005, 11:05 PM
have been asked to put together the video production elements of uni course (multimedia). have no problem with that, but am looking for reasonable arguements as to why to use vegas rather than the perceived industry standards, such as, avid or fcp.

as it is, for first year students i make them use windows movie maker, simple cut to cut - no frills, no gimmicks. once they learn the art of traditional editing, then they can start playing speilberg. that said, i've used most nle's, and my arguement that if they we're really serious about industry standards, maybe they should think about investing in digibeta along with quantel boxes, etc., raised blank looks. i'm dealing with a buch of academics who have had very little experience of the commercial world, and seem to know the buzz words, but not the buzz.

one of the most impelling arguements so far was that if we looked at vegas movie studio, we'd be saving a great deal of money that could then be spent on other things - such as the academic junkets...

simple arguements greatfully accepted.

leslie

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/17/2005, 11:30 PM
Vegas is a whole lot easier and faster to learn.

Vegas has one of the best audio editors built in.

Vegas is available at steep academic discounts, and you get the full version at that price, not a limited watered-down version.

Vegas runs on just about any PC made in the last 5 years without additional hardware.

Vegas is the most format-agnostic editor, allowing you to use almost any media file type without conversion.

Hope that helps.
songsj wrote on 11/17/2005, 11:34 PM
All of the reasons listed above pretty well cover it. It simply is a lot of bang for the bucks.
farss wrote on 11/18/2005, 1:54 AM
The movie studio cut down version isn't all that watered down for what most people need and it outsells Vegas by a big margin I'm told.
In addition to what's been noted above, ever tried to get anything that comes off the web into FCP?
Much the same goes for Avid systems.
If this a multimedia coarse, not a film or TV production course then the argument for Vegas is very strong. I don't think there really is an 'industry standard' in that field.
Bob.