Re: A well earned thanks to all here

Maverick wrote on 6/17/2002, 2:14 PM

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's helped me so far in my project. I am new to NLEs and found VV3 intuitive but also, at times, daunting. I have now managed to get to grips with several aspects (ripple editing, velocity envelopes amongst others) and it's all down to the help and advice offered here.

Cheers

I know I'll be back with more questions in time but I have learnt to use the forum as well as the manual (which is excellent) as first ports of call.

:-))))

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/17/2002, 11:14 PM

What's really nice about Vegas Video for videos is similar to Photoshop for still images in that each application can work at a very basic level with only a few minutes learning the most basic features and still give really good results. As you climb the learning curve you come to really respect the power of each application. I think many will agree you frequently get surprised and mumble to yourself gee I didn't know you could do that such and such way. Not only can Vegas do a lot of things it can do a lot of things a lot of different ways.

For example today I was having trouble getting the skin tone adjusted the way I wanted in some shots where people were sitting under a large tree with diffused sunlight coming through the branches. Normally I would just use Color Balance, Color Curves and Levels. Wasn't working the way I wanted. So more out of accident then anything else I tried adding Film Effects. About .030 grain, 120 on the default tint color, particle setting to dust. Then I added the Light Rays filter. Totally different and cool effect.