I became a Vegas user in late October after using another editor for about 7 years.
I took on making a highlight DVD for my son's wrestling team and this year, took an extra step, and made a single wrestler DVD with each wrestler matches my camera captured during the season.
Thirty-seven unique DVD and then sixty highlight DVDs for the wrestlers, managers and coaches with an extra one for the 4 seniors on the team.
Attending the matches to shoot the video was one aspect, but the editing was even more of my time. I put in over 200 hours to complete the project and the final product came out quite well. The highlght DVD had about an hour of material and the individual DVD's ran from 7 minutes for a couple of freshman to almost an hour and half for some of varsity wrestlers.
Part of the DVD was shown at the banquet and the response was great.
But, if I had charged for what I did, no one could have afforded it. Now I was learning along the way and the 45 second intro that had thunderbolts and fireballs with wrestler keyframed against a green screen took probably 15 hours to do. It didn't come out perfectly, but learned how to do keyframes when you have a moving object and it wasn't fun. My workflow could improve, but maybe 75% of the hours would have still occured even if I was a good, experienced editor.
Where is the best place to get ideas of what I should have done vs. what I did do to reduce the hours on this project? Is the forum for this, or is there somewhere else better suited to learn better workflow skills.
Wiz
I took on making a highlight DVD for my son's wrestling team and this year, took an extra step, and made a single wrestler DVD with each wrestler matches my camera captured during the season.
Thirty-seven unique DVD and then sixty highlight DVDs for the wrestlers, managers and coaches with an extra one for the 4 seniors on the team.
Attending the matches to shoot the video was one aspect, but the editing was even more of my time. I put in over 200 hours to complete the project and the final product came out quite well. The highlght DVD had about an hour of material and the individual DVD's ran from 7 minutes for a couple of freshman to almost an hour and half for some of varsity wrestlers.
Part of the DVD was shown at the banquet and the response was great.
But, if I had charged for what I did, no one could have afforded it. Now I was learning along the way and the 45 second intro that had thunderbolts and fireballs with wrestler keyframed against a green screen took probably 15 hours to do. It didn't come out perfectly, but learned how to do keyframes when you have a moving object and it wasn't fun. My workflow could improve, but maybe 75% of the hours would have still occured even if I was a good, experienced editor.
Where is the best place to get ideas of what I should have done vs. what I did do to reduce the hours on this project? Is the forum for this, or is there somewhere else better suited to learn better workflow skills.
Wiz