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Stonefield wrote on 10/4/2004, 4:41 PM
Care to share on what these ( this ) plug in does ? Always nice to see more plugins for Vegas.
Sab wrote on 10/4/2004, 5:37 PM
It is a very powerful titler. Can't wait.

Mike
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/4/2004, 5:48 PM
It's a standard in the broadcast industry for titling, soon to be available for Vegas as a plugin. More to come....:-)
JasonMurray wrote on 10/4/2004, 8:09 PM
More to come....:-)

Sounds like Spot's playing with a new plugin............. :)
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/4/2004, 8:40 PM
Welllll.....Remember that Cayman is in Utah, just like VASST. :-)
Coursedesign wrote on 10/4/2004, 9:58 PM
The CG output from this program looks damn good!

Power CG doesn't have as many psychedelic fantasy effects as some other packages, it just has a lot of very very classy stuff.

I bought this on Spot's recommendation, and I am really pleased with the quality.

This is the real thing for those who want actual broadcast quality.

(There is a lot more to achieving that than just vector fonts.)

Chanimal wrote on 10/4/2004, 10:16 PM
I used to live in Utah (BYU for 6 1/2 years). Perhaps I should also be a beta tester?

Ted
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JasonMurray wrote on 10/4/2004, 10:34 PM
Welllll.....Remember that Cayman is in Utah, just like VASST. :-)

Conspiracy! (Who told me to say that........)
farss wrote on 10/5/2004, 1:31 AM
I'm glad to see others discover this. I spent a fair bit of time researching the intracies of making text look right in video. Video places a lot of contrainst on how text can be presented and the software needs to understand that.
The thing is years ago well before the idea of the NLE came along dedicated racks of hardware were able to produce exceptionally good looking text in video. I suspect a lot of the knowledge that went into the design of those units got lost in the rush for fancier looking stuff.
Text crawl and credit rolls are quite difficult to get looking right, I know, I've spent more hours than I should have had to to nut out how to make it look right.
One question for Cayman, I hope at least one of the beta testers is testing it in PAL?

Bob.
PeterWright wrote on 10/5/2004, 2:48 AM
If anyone's allowed to tell, does it plug in to Vegas better than Boris?
farss wrote on 10/5/2004, 4:28 AM
Peter,
from what I know it doesn't even need to plug in to Vegas, nice when it does but you can render out from it in a number of formats and bring that into Vegas.
Certainly placing text is easier when it's a plugin but hardly a show stopper.
One thing that concerns me though is with some text FXs (credit rolls for example) the text itself should specify the duration not the other way around which is where it's totally wrong in Vegas. I don't quite know how that'd be integrated within Vegas.

Bob.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/5/2004, 4:31 AM
Sorry guys,
NDA prevents me from saying more.:-)
PeterWright wrote on 10/5/2004, 5:04 AM
Yes Bob, but if it doesn't plug in smoothly, it becomes one of many progs that can produce impressive looking tgas or whatever that can be hoisted onto the Vegas timeline.

I'm hoping for the abilty to adjust any properties "live" whilst looping within Vegas as we now do with the Text Media Generator.
RafalK wrote on 10/5/2004, 12:17 PM
Can anyone specultae on the price tag?
farss wrote on 10/5/2004, 2:23 PM
Peter,
that's exactly what I'm hoping you cannot do, if you can do that then it'll be just another graphics app shoehorned into video that produces lousy looking text. You simply cannot take a credit roll that takes 60 seconds and make it run in 58 seconds or 62 seconds. You could have it run in 30 seconds or 120 seconds though and those times also depend on whether the project is PAL or NTSC.
You can I believe overcome those limitations with sub pixel rendering but that could involve a high processor overhead.
Then there's the aliasing issues to consider. To get good small fonts in video you cannot just position any font anywhere in the frame.

Bob.
beerandchips wrote on 10/5/2004, 2:26 PM
http://www.caymangraphics.com/

they have pricing on site.
alfredsvideo wrote on 10/5/2004, 3:12 PM
Friends, Romans and Vegimites, lend me your ears.
To buy, or not to buy? That is the question.
Power CG rfs, or Power CG Plus?
rs170a wrote on 10/5/2004, 4:23 PM
...price tag?

On Sept. 13/04, Jeff said
"The Vegas plugin will be for both Power CG rfs and Power CG Plus.
If you purchase now, the upgrade will be free."

Mike
rs170a wrote on 10/5/2004, 7:03 PM
Power CG rfs, or Power CG Plus?

Try both. Trial downloads of both are availble. Even though the Vegas plugin hasn't been released, you can still play with them and see which one you prefer or, at $149 vs. $395, can afford. :-)

Mike