Test Render 3D Animation in Vegas Pro

karma17 wrote on 10/21/2018, 5:45 AM

In case anyone's interested, I use Vegas Pro to render out 3D animations, and the workflow is pretty easy since it is a breeze to import .png sequences into Vegas. And once in Vegas, it is easy to do additional corrections if and as needed. This was just a quick test render in Vegas using a 240 frame .png sequence. Actually, I was mostly interested to see how the PBR surfacing looks on the 3D object. The .png images took 20 minutes in the 3D software and only 20 seconds to render out of Vegas.

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DrNeb wrote on 10/21/2018, 7:10 PM

I use Vegas for both 3d animation and film animation - I agree Vegas is excellent for compositing 3d Pngs. Even more so if you have the full suite of Saphire, Boris Key and Hitfilm effects. I also have Boris Motion Blur to compliment Hitfilm's Motion Blur. I like Hitfilm's MB for more traditional type of movement like camera pans and the BMB for simpler movements like talking.

One of the really cool things about Vegas and the full suite of effects is the ability to add in lightening, rain and over cool effects rather than render them in Blender, which is what I use for 3d work. It cuts render time down by half and allows you to build more complex scenes. I just finished creating a plane hi-jack and crash scene, where I blew a hole in the plane and then crashed plane. I used the particle engine in Blender to blow the hole in the plane and break the plane apart - I added smoke, flames and explosion in Vegas with the cloud particle effect, fire particle effect and the gun particle effect. It's really neat to be able to use these effects beyond their intended uses.

fr0sty wrote on 10/22/2018, 12:43 AM

I use it for animations I do when video mapping or making content for our water screens. It works great, though sometimes levels and colors can get a bit messed up (the image imports looking really flat) with certain formats like TIFF. I'd post some, but the client doesn't want them revealed before the event which is next weekend.