Using too many editors?

mel58i wrote on 8/24/2004, 4:23 AM
I currently have (and need to use) 3 video editors to do most of my productions (Vegas, Prem pro, Studio 8).

Vegas 4 is a superb prog - easy to use and great for most things.
Prem pro is difficult to learn but does have many transitions etc.
Studio 8 is crap with many crashes but does have useful HFX.

I use vegas as a foundation, but for transitions like "swing in/out have to resort to Prem, and for HFX have to use Studio.

So I find myself having to make clips in Prem and Studio and import them into Vegas!

Does anyone know how I can make Vegas into and all singing all dancing prog? I really hate having to switch editors!

Mel.



Comments

farss wrote on 8/24/2004, 5:07 AM
I don't know what 'HFX' is and why would you want "swing in/out" anyway?

Vegas doesn't ship with 1001 transition for a very good reason, ever noticed how as the price of an NLE goes up the number of transitions tends to go down? Unless you're deliberately going for a 'cheesy' look and make it obvious that's a deliberate creative decision then trying to cram every transition know to man into a video just says rank amateur.

But that is your choice and what I said is just my spin on things, although I'd suggest you look and any movie or TV program to see how many different transitions they use. Even dissolves are kept to a bare minimum.

All that out of the way, there's a pretty good set in Vegas and they work better than just about any other NLEs. At least with Vegas if you must have a page curl you get one without artifacts. Also Spicemaster lets you cheaply add a huge library of additional transistions and FXs. There's many others and you can create many, many more with a little imagination. Just the boring dissolves has many way out options to play with if that's what you're into.
And then there's Satish's various plug-ins that can do many things that even PP cannot do without AE.

Bob.

PS Vegas can do swing in/out, look into planar surfaces.
FuTz wrote on 8/24/2004, 5:27 AM
"look into planar surfaces" ... isn't that Push you're talking about ?
mel58i wrote on 8/24/2004, 5:57 AM
I do mainly wedding work, and the final sequences shows a album opening like a book - that's why the "swing".
No I don't do "cheesy" looks - just chose the effect for the occassion.

Is it my vegas 4 or what - don't have planer surfaces!

Mel.
BrianStanding wrote on 8/24/2004, 8:11 AM
V5 has basic 3D controls that will get you what you want.

Or, if you don't want to spend for the upgrade, download the free Wax 2.0 from www.debugmode.com. It's a steep learning curve, but gives you a lot of 3D control, rotoscoping, and many more benefits.

Wax 2.0 will plug into Vegas and Premiere, or works as a standalone.
jetdv wrote on 8/24/2004, 8:28 AM
You might want to look at the Adorage transitions. They have a "book open" transition in their list. For a review, look in my newsletters (I think Vol 2 #6 but would have to check to be positive)
johnmeyer wrote on 8/24/2004, 10:26 AM
The Hollywood fX (Hfx) in Studio are nice, but Vegas can do many of the things they do (not all, but many). You might want to go over to this site: Sundance and look at some of the example VEG files that are posted there. You can download them and see the effects that can be generated in Vegas.