Vegas saves the day - again!!

rs170a wrote on 10/23/2009, 6:27 AM

One of the 3rd yr. Animation students at the college I work for came to me begging for help.
He had some footage he had shot with a Panasonic AVCHD camcorder that neither Premiere nor AE (AFAIK, newest versions of each) would even recognize.
His teacher told him to come down and see if I could help.
I hooked the camera via USB to my computer, transferred a few files, dropped them onto a Vegas Pro 8 timeline and watched him smile as they played without any problems :-)
Thank you Sony!!

Mike

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UlfLaursen wrote on 10/23/2009, 7:51 AM

I had a similar experience 1 week ago with good old 7d and UltimateS

From our annual contest in Denmark Videomarathon where I work as techniciant to help out, a guy needed to burn DVD's of the nominated films. He had 30+ files form mixed PC and MAC, and had a hard time getting FCP to work with them all, so he asked for my help in the last minute.

Again Vegas and UltimateS (batchrender) did a great job, totally automatic. :-)

Thanks both VASST and SONY :-)

/Ulf

Former user wrote on 10/23/2009, 10:10 AM

I love stories like this. I work at a small university, and the drama students can take a film course. I do a series of guest lectures (as PR person) to show them the videos I used to produce when I worked in the NHL, and now here.

Without exception, these kids use Premiere Pro or Final Cut if they have a Mac. In each class I've lectured in (it's a fourth year course, so class size is under 20), there have always, without exception, been at least 1 or 2 that blink for a few seconds and then switch to Vegas.

True story: this semester I did my first lecture about basic pre-production, and showed some screen capture of editing in Vegas. By the time the demo video was done, one student had gone online, bought VP9, installed it, and was cutting his mid-term project by the end of the lecture. He was delighted because Premiere Pro, he said, was slow, clunky, and hard to learn. He just sent me an email on Wednesday saying he got an A+ on his project.

WOOT!