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As I start to use FinalCut Pro more on a daily basis at my internship, I start to realize more and more just how superior the interface of Vegas is compared to other NLEs.
I would say the biggest thorn in Vegas's side (industry-wise) is its lack of any real-time hardware support, but I have to point out how utterly crippled FCP is when it is running only on a CPU. Anything that is any more complex than playing back a single unmodified DV stream is continually replaced with an 'Unrendered' placeholder. I can't believe that the 1Ghz G4 I am running on can't muster up *some approximation* to show me unless I manually pick and choose and render. It's like working with blindsiders on.
And how about how unintelligent FCP's rendering is anyway? You shut off a track and lose all your renders even if you turn it back on.. If you obscure a single DV clip with a long transition, but then shorten that transition, FCP still insists that you must render the areas that the transition spanned before shortening.. :-P
And then the fact that it chokes and stutters on MP3's and needs to render audio when two or more pieces with different sampling rates are mixed?? Ridiculous!
I am starting to realize how utterly simple yet ingenious the idea of sliding two events into each other and having them transition wherever they intersect is. In FCP and other NLE's, transitions are presented as objects in themselves that have to be chosen and dragged onto the timeline, positioned and lengthened. I find myself always having to pre-plan how to compensate in order to get the result I want, often having to move and resize clips numerous times, deleting and re-dragging the transition each time till I get it right.
It is becoming clear that I would never want to use anything other than Vegas for any video project that is in any way musical. It'd pretty much be impossible to use other NLE's for most of my pre-production tasks as a VJ. Is Vegas the only NLE that allows seamless looping of a region with real-time adjustment of that region? This is so crucial for culling video loops out of material and making the audio and/or video seamless.
I also like being able to structure my timeline in the way that I want to and not having to view video tracks grouped with other video tracks.. audio tracks with other audio tracks.
Just want to remind you all at SF that you are appreciated!
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As I start to use FinalCut Pro more on a daily basis at my internship, I start to realize more and more just how superior the interface of Vegas is compared to other NLEs.
I would say the biggest thorn in Vegas's side (industry-wise) is its lack of any real-time hardware support, but I have to point out how utterly crippled FCP is when it is running only on a CPU. Anything that is any more complex than playing back a single unmodified DV stream is continually replaced with an 'Unrendered' placeholder. I can't believe that the 1Ghz G4 I am running on can't muster up *some approximation* to show me unless I manually pick and choose and render. It's like working with blindsiders on.
And how about how unintelligent FCP's rendering is anyway? You shut off a track and lose all your renders even if you turn it back on.. If you obscure a single DV clip with a long transition, but then shorten that transition, FCP still insists that you must render the areas that the transition spanned before shortening.. :-P
And then the fact that it chokes and stutters on MP3's and needs to render audio when two or more pieces with different sampling rates are mixed?? Ridiculous!
I am starting to realize how utterly simple yet ingenious the idea of sliding two events into each other and having them transition wherever they intersect is. In FCP and other NLE's, transitions are presented as objects in themselves that have to be chosen and dragged onto the timeline, positioned and lengthened. I find myself always having to pre-plan how to compensate in order to get the result I want, often having to move and resize clips numerous times, deleting and re-dragging the transition each time till I get it right.
It is becoming clear that I would never want to use anything other than Vegas for any video project that is in any way musical. It'd pretty much be impossible to use other NLE's for most of my pre-production tasks as a VJ. Is Vegas the only NLE that allows seamless looping of a region with real-time adjustment of that region? This is so crucial for culling video loops out of material and making the audio and/or video seamless.
I also like being able to structure my timeline in the way that I want to and not having to view video tracks grouped with other video tracks.. audio tracks with other audio tracks.
Just want to remind you all at SF that you are appreciated!
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