Vegas 4 or 5 used in (semi?) major film?

bStro wrote on 1/27/2008, 5:22 PM
A user on another Vegas forum says she remembers Sonic Foundry's (or possibly Sony's) promotional material once claiming that Vegas was used to edit Cold Mountain (the Oscar nominated film). This immediately sounded fishy to me, so I did some searching, and everything I find says that Cold Mountain was edited in Final Cut Pro.

(The point of this is not to start a Vegas vs. FCP discussion, so please let's not.)

I do remember Vegas promotional material around that time mentioning Vegas was used for a film that was gaining some attention, but I'm 98% sure it wasn't anywhere nearly as mainstream as Cold Mountain. Anyone know what this person may be remembering? I assume it was something that at least had "mountain" in the title, but who knows. Or maybe Vegas was used for editing music / sound in Cold Mountain?

Rob

Comments

rmack350 wrote on 1/27/2008, 6:25 PM
It was FCP for Cold Mountain, and I think even then it was for specific tasks in the film.

Rob Mack
farss wrote on 1/27/2008, 6:31 PM
I believe lots of parts of movie soundtracks have been mixed with Vegas.
Can't help with any knowledge of a full blown movie being edited in Vegas.
You need to be a bit cynical when anyone claims a movie was edited with a desktop NLE. For years you've been able to edit movies on desktop NLEs however what's being edited are lo res proxies and then the EDL taken into a high end system or to match neg. I think Avid had such a system that goes back a very long time.

Bob.
TLF wrote on 1/27/2008, 11:33 PM
There was this:
http://videoediting.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=34085

John_Cline wrote on 1/27/2008, 11:55 PM
Not a major film but, for what it's worth, the last six years of feature pieces on NBC's NASCAR Winston Cup (and Nextel Cup) broadcasts have had all the audio edited and mixed using Vegas. It has also been used record multiple tracks of in-car audio in real-time and another instance of Vegas on the same machine has been used simultaneously to edit and playback these communications to air during the race.

John
DataMeister wrote on 1/28/2008, 12:05 AM
"feature pieces on NBC's NASCAR Winston Cup (and Nextel Cup) broadcasts" and "used record multiple tracks of in-car audio in real-time and another instance of Vegas on the same machine has been used simultaneously to edit and playback these communications to air during the race."

Ok, see now that is some cool stuff. So how come we don't get front page (website) feature articles where these editors are interviewed and asked about why they chose to use Vegas over something else.

You know, the way apple does on their pro page.
http://www.apple.com/pro

The SCS Showcase is mildly close except for the fact that it's not nearly as visually attractive, and then it's practically buried in the site.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/showcase Maybe we need a showcase main page designed similarly to the SCS home page and then a dedicated link to the showcase from the home page that updates it's visual appearance with the feature article.



mcvap wrote on 1/28/2008, 2:17 AM
The SCS Showcase is mildly close except for the fact that it's not nearly as visually attractive, and then it's practically buried in the site.

Showcase inside SCS Home Page definitely necessary .

A presentation clip produced by SCS that reflect SCS ,specially vegas and it's pro abilities.

SCS we ring the bell, lift the creative glove IT IS TIME FOR A KNOCK OUT,we know u can do it.