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farss wrote on 11/7/2007, 1:29 AM
Bit of a shameless bump but also an interesting aside.

This client / student whose VMS project I'm hoping I can open came around today with VMS running on a tablet PC with a fold up keyboard in his pocket. I was a bit worried that he'd managed to rip the vob files off the preview DVD with bunt in TC I'd given him, thinking this is going to be like editing in clotted cream but to my surprise the playback rate was usable.

Why he has a tablet PC is the interesting bit. He's an organist who writes his own music in Sibelius, only problem is not having anyone to turn the pages and he finds the auto scroll in Sibelius not to his liking. Simple solution, print the pages from Sibelius as PPT slides and sit tablet PC on music rest with wireless mouse at the end of the organ keyboard. Whenever he need a page turned, a quick tap of the mouse and up comes the next PPT slide!

Given his ability to think outside the square I feel he and Vegas's little sibling will get on very nicely.

Bob.
ushere wrote on 11/7/2007, 2:05 AM
now that IS a clever idea!

leslie
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/7/2007, 5:32 AM
Brilliant use!
As I'm sure you/he have found, Vegas Movie Studio/Video Factory/Video Explosion all open nicely in Vegas.
farss wrote on 11/7/2007, 12:02 PM
Well no we didn't get a chance to check that the .vf projects would open in Vegas so thanks for that.
We were pushed for time and I'd just assumed they would but after he left I thought maybe I should have grabbed a quick copy...

One thing that my little training session highlighted (again) was the Vegas line needs some work done on the very basic problem of the out of the box experience. This gent who is no fool, who had quickly read them manual, worked out how to get .vob files onto the T/L by the back door was trying to edit PAL in an NTSC project with audio sampling at 44.1.
After I'd fixed that up for him he straight away asks "so if we're now all setup for PAL at 25fps, why does this thing go upto 29?". Well you've also got to change The Ruler!
How hard could it be for the application to determine at first run from the system Locale that maybe it's not being used in a NTSC country or even just workout this is the first time it's being run and ask a simple question to correctly setup the default project. Even a card in the box with big red letters would do and that'd cost like 10c.

Bob.