Have you checked out Gary Gowman's excellent tutorials on creativecow.net?

http://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/select_forum.cgi?forum=sonicfoundry_vegas

Cool, I didn't know about Gary's tutorials. I'll check them out tonight. Still, looks like there's only five on Vegas tricks. No replacement for a good seminar. Seriously, consider it. Would be a good way to earn a quick buck, get user feedback, and spark inventive uses of your excellent editor.

Or aren't you concerned with us end users now that you're a government contracted security company and all? ;-)

Thanks. And yes, I own both Vegas tutorial CDs. Looking forward to the next with "very advanced" 3.0 techniques.

Luxo

3.0 tutorials and live training programs are in the works, so stay tuned for more info.

Any specific techniques you'd like to see covered?

...live training progam? Can you tell us more???

MoBetta

Great news! I, for one, would like to learn more about compositing and masking. I'm not clear on the parent/child relationship between tracks. I haven't expirimented much, but that's the first chapter I would turn to in a tutorial. Also, a chapter on advanced chroma keying would be helpful, focusing on sharpen the edges between layers. This might also include tips for shooting against a blue/green screen.

Other subjects might include approriate uses for the different blurring effects (median, quick, gaussian, radial, linear), using the levels, color curves filters.

A portion of the seminar could focus on combining filters (as in the CreativeCOW 3D effect) to create interesting effects. This would be most inspiring.

Of course, practically the entire spectrum of audio filters is completely esoteric to me. Just the basics, how to get the most out of the compressor and noise gate filters, would be helpful there. A bonus chapter on using your noise reduction plug-in would be interesting.

There's a ton more, but the folks in this forum can fill in the gaps better than I can.

Looking forward!
Luxo

Maybe a tutorial on pan and cropping an image[s] so that say for certain shots you could remove the overhead mic from a shot. Squeeze out the edges so that the sides don't have any unwanted images...but to still have each shot fit the same sized screen so that when each clip is viewed consecutively the viewer doesn't notice the difference. I know that it can be done now but I just keep screwing it up and it just takes me too long to do...still practicing though. It will probably be much easier when I get a second monitor...How do you guys set up your screen to do this stuff? Later.

Well rather than recovering the wheel, I would enjoy a professional level seminar. Going over the signal path which is covered in the manual BTW. How SF implemented its masking. I know we provide the travaling mask with alpha, (nice example in the manual BTW) but are there secret features that allow defining a mask (aka quai rotoscoping) within VV3?

At the seminar you could give away key covers for all the short-cut keys. The speed increase for pros to learn the keys (ala CMX) would be cool.

I would enjoy discussion on getting the most from the preview window. I still have some difficulty with it switching modes on me and very low fram rates at preview quality.

The seminar should cover the pixel conversion for imports. Also basic information (flag waving!) about the NTSC clamping plug-in. A lot of folks will be glad to find out about this. Discuss reading the histograms to determine where to apply the plug-in. I am used to a vector scope and the histograms still do not equate for me. (brain dead)


I will think of other topics, not that you would ever be able to do a seminar down south here.

Smiles,

Keith