Upgrade to visual effects suite

noiseboyuk wrote on 4/6/2012, 11:04 AM
I currently have Platinum Suite, thinking of upgrading to the visual effects suite. Any general experiences welcome, and two specific questions:

1 - I see the VEF doesn't have the extra new blue transitions - since I already have them, will I keep them ok after the install?

2 - Any experience of the HitFilm Chroma Key? I often use rubbish green / blue screen with bad / uneven lighting (it's only daft films with the kids!) - it hitfilm is any cleverer?

All comments welcome, thanks.

Comments

noiseboyuk wrote on 4/8/2012, 7:23 PM
Does NO-ONE have this?!
Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/8/2012, 8:42 PM
Apparently not. At least not anyone who's been on this forum in the last 48 hours.
noiseboyuk wrote on 4/9/2012, 6:27 AM
Odd, isn't it? The upgrade price is relatively cheap really - $95. Hitfilm standard is usually $149.
Roberto65 wrote on 4/9/2012, 3:30 PM
I do not have Vegas VE, but I am polling about HItFilms tutorials on YT, because this SW seems simply amazing.... maybe one day I will get it. The points that I encourage you to check are:

1. HitFilm Standard vs. Pro: check very well if what you want to do is really enabled in the Standard. Sometimes (I take as an example another amazing SW, IClone 5 by Reallusion), the standard version offers not that much... the Pro is almost a must in order to be able to do something decent. So, check it out carefully... eventually download the free trials from HitFilm and play a bit with them, and also make sure to check the YT tutorial on HitFilm channel.
2. think also carefully whether you want/have time to jump into the HitFilm "world". By watching the YT tutorials, I found it more complicated compared to Vegas, because a) you need to get into the "3D-animation thinking" perspective, b) to make some amazing effects and composite, you have to masterize a high amount of button, sliders, sub-menus, tricks, and pipelines
3. I still wonder why is it necessary to use Vegas once HitFilm is installed: HitFilm seems to offer the standard NLE editing plus the 3D composite shots. Perhaps there are some good reasons to use both of them and I am happy if others could give some hints. But to me, it looks like once you have HitFilm, you do everything there...