VASST Seattle (Redmond)

Catwell wrote on 6/19/2004, 8:52 AM
I spent yesterday trying to absorb more information than my brain can handle. Spot dispenses real facts about Vegas, DVD Architect, Microphones, Sound cards and interfaces, computer hardware, operating systems, plug ins, MPEG encoding, and many others for hours on end. Gary Kliener added his expertise on these subjects as well. The value of the VASST seminar is tremendous.

I have some suggestion that I didn’t think to add to my comment card. I would like to see a more narrowly focused seminar. I know that this can be a problem in attracting the required number of attendees. The narrower the topic the fewer people that will attend. But I would like more depth on many subjects. Several times the comment came up that we could spend days on one topic. Well that is what I would like to do. Mixing for surround needs much more discussion. Do you mix a 5.1 track that will downmix well to stereo, or do you create two different mixes one 5.1 and the other stereo so that you have the best for each. There would be reasons for both choices. I would love to spend a day or two working the surround sound question. There are so many possible topics both for video and audio.

The VASST program is terrific. Please do more. For anyone interested in seminars these are great learning tools. My thanks to VASST, Spot, Gary, Mannie, Sony and all involved for a really great day. I recommend these programs to anyone who is serious about Vegas.

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 6/19/2004, 3:38 PM
Catwell,
Thanks for your kind words. We are starting to break down the individual elements of some of this already, but for this tour, similar to the passt VASST Vegas tours, we've done broadview only because to go too narrow shorts the room size considerably, and you saw the gear plus the kind of rooms we use. High $$ indeed. We're kicking off the Advanced/Compositing tour that was supposed to go out last fall. This will start in Hawaii next month on the 25th. C'mon down!
Watch in the next 30 days for a very exciting VASST announcement that we'll have. (actually, you'll get an email)
Seattle was a great group, lotsa fun, and it was great hanging out with some of you til way after the night was over.
SPOT