Vegas Did It; AVID Couldn't

ricklaut wrote on 2/19/2005, 7:29 AM
Had a quick laugh the other day.... At my real job, our corporate media guy was trying to pull stills from a Windows Media file for a PowerPoint presentation. Standard 320x480 .wmv file. First he tried it on his AVID and then I watched him try it on another AVID. No luck.... seeing that he was frustrated, I offered to help :) I downloaded the demo version of Vegas for him to try and I did it for him in about - oh - 20 seconds.

Then I took the opportunity to show him some of the ins and outs of Vegas - stuff that took another two or three minutes (simple titles, track motion, etc - all on the .wmv file that he couldn't do anything with in AVID). He couldn't believe it, but was impressed! We may have another convert!

Rick

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 2/19/2005, 8:44 AM
Keep 'preachin that gospel, Rick!
A lot of folks don't realize what "Format Agnostic/resolution independent" means, but once you start playing with that aspect of Vegas....it's great.
Funny thing though, at the National Religous Broadcaster convention last week, a few people kinda got their shorts in a knot at the phrase "Format agnostic." I guess in some circles, "agnostic" only has one meaning.
Mandk wrote on 2/19/2005, 8:55 AM
I have done that at work a few times. For the editors unwilling to consider new thngs it upsets them greatly to have someone not an editor show them how easy it is with a relatively inexpensive program that runs on rather inexpensive computers.

More open minded editors are instant converts.

Another interesting thing is that after Vegas solves the first problem, the question "Can Vegas do that" becomes a popular problem solver.

Bob Greaves wrote on 2/19/2005, 9:33 AM
I do not mind that others may snicker, but I feel I saved a bundle buying Vegas, NOT buying avid, buying Sonar, NOT buying pro tools and all without any compromise for quality.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/19/2005, 11:29 AM
Here's the thing, AVID has it's place, but so does Vegas! :-)

I say let me use whatever I want/need to use for the job that will get the job done to spec, be it Vegas, Avid, FCP (blech!!! - personal opinion), Premier, Ulead, or even windows movie maker.

If it does what I need, I'm happy

Does that makes me NLE agnostic? =) (with a Vegas preference)

Dave
busterkeaton wrote on 2/20/2005, 3:55 PM
Perhaps "Format Ecumenical" would have worked for them.

Spot|DSE wrote on 2/20/2005, 4:04 PM
ROTFLMAO! I'm gonna remember that one!
Laurence wrote on 2/21/2005, 5:24 AM
I'm an "agnostic pagan" myself: "one who doesn't believe in many gods". Maybe that's why I like Vegas so much ;-)
logiquem wrote on 2/21/2005, 7:33 AM
Keep in mind that Avid (and every others NLE i know of... ) are oriented toward broadcast medium editing, not general multimedia editing. That's what makes Vegas a complete different NLE than anything else.

BTW, one thing that is not often highlighted about Vegas and totally striked me at first is the incredible capability to play continously as you edit (ex.: changing FX settings, track motion, moving an event, etc., even project settings!) . This, and general responsiveness, is i guess an heritage of the multitrack audio soft it was at first and is remarquable.

Correct me if i am wrong but you can't do this realtime editing style in any other NLE i know of. This simple thing alone change everything in the NLE workflow.