I am not yet a Vegas Video owner, but hope to be soon. I've been using the crippled trial version (see pet peeve below). I'm generally extremely impressed, and am writing here for a couple of reasons.
1) I'd like to hear from some people who have experience with both Vegas Video and Media Studio 6.0, and hear what it was that convinced you to go Vegas Video, and also what features you feel you passed up by going the Vegas Video route, and why you decided to go Vegas Video anyway. This information is not only good for me in justifying my decision to myself, but also may help Sonic Foundry to understand what is important to its customers.
2) In my experimenting, I had a fairly simple effect. For the sake of discussion, let's say that I have a video of a bride standing in her parents livingroom. I want to have a small video of the bride's mother drift in from the lower left corner, growing larger until it comes to its final resting spot/size in the upper right corner of the screen, at about 1/8 size of the screen. A simple picture-in-picture effect. From there, the video of her mother crossfades to clip of her father, etc.
My question: I tried every which way I could think of to render the video so that it would look OK on the PC. But ultimately, each time, the smaller video was of very poor quality. The people were almost unrecognizable, and in fact I think if you didn't know them, you wouldn't know who they were from the inset video. The picture doesn't seem that it is so small that it shouldn't be able to pull it off. Afterall, I can resize the same clip to the same size in the preview window, and it looks just like I want it to look in the video. It's just that when it renders to the picture-in-picture in the video, it looks horrible. For that matter, the "Sonic Foundry" insert that appears every 5 seconds or so (because it's a try version) also looks very fuzzy.
Now--I've not had a chance to dump it to my DV camera, because I left the power supply to it in Mexico, I think (long story--I'm going back for it). I'd like to think that what I'm seeing on the screen on my PC is a pale preview of the true video, but I won't be able to verify that until I get my camera back up and running.
Can anyone comment on either of the above two items?
Thanks! Oops-- read below, also...
Pet peeve: I don't understand why the crippled version has to keep you from saving a project. The Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.0 trial lets you do everything the package will do, includings saving, it's just that when it renders it puts a HUGE red "X" across your video. That's fine for me. I can see well enough how the product works, and it does serve their purpose of keeping people from using it without buying it. I just like that I get a full 30-days to play with all the features, exactly like I'm going to be using it, including saving and loading projects.
1) I'd like to hear from some people who have experience with both Vegas Video and Media Studio 6.0, and hear what it was that convinced you to go Vegas Video, and also what features you feel you passed up by going the Vegas Video route, and why you decided to go Vegas Video anyway. This information is not only good for me in justifying my decision to myself, but also may help Sonic Foundry to understand what is important to its customers.
2) In my experimenting, I had a fairly simple effect. For the sake of discussion, let's say that I have a video of a bride standing in her parents livingroom. I want to have a small video of the bride's mother drift in from the lower left corner, growing larger until it comes to its final resting spot/size in the upper right corner of the screen, at about 1/8 size of the screen. A simple picture-in-picture effect. From there, the video of her mother crossfades to clip of her father, etc.
My question: I tried every which way I could think of to render the video so that it would look OK on the PC. But ultimately, each time, the smaller video was of very poor quality. The people were almost unrecognizable, and in fact I think if you didn't know them, you wouldn't know who they were from the inset video. The picture doesn't seem that it is so small that it shouldn't be able to pull it off. Afterall, I can resize the same clip to the same size in the preview window, and it looks just like I want it to look in the video. It's just that when it renders to the picture-in-picture in the video, it looks horrible. For that matter, the "Sonic Foundry" insert that appears every 5 seconds or so (because it's a try version) also looks very fuzzy.
Now--I've not had a chance to dump it to my DV camera, because I left the power supply to it in Mexico, I think (long story--I'm going back for it). I'd like to think that what I'm seeing on the screen on my PC is a pale preview of the true video, but I won't be able to verify that until I get my camera back up and running.
Can anyone comment on either of the above two items?
Thanks! Oops-- read below, also...
Pet peeve: I don't understand why the crippled version has to keep you from saving a project. The Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.0 trial lets you do everything the package will do, includings saving, it's just that when it renders it puts a HUGE red "X" across your video. That's fine for me. I can see well enough how the product works, and it does serve their purpose of keeping people from using it without buying it. I just like that I get a full 30-days to play with all the features, exactly like I'm going to be using it, including saving and loading projects.