can live without the intro / outro - good stuff in the middle though.....

> can live without the intro / outro...

When you think about it... it's actually nice that Les Stroud has lent his name to the Vegas Pro training series. We often hear people complain that no one is doing "professional" work with Vegas (it's always Avid & FCP) and here we have a predominant TV show being cut on Vegas Pro. That's something to showcase.

Great feature overview by Gary. The instant 4-point envelope edit is one of my favorite new features. I'm editing a play right now with dialog replacement from the mixing desk and it is making the task so easy and seamless i don't know how I edited without it before.

~jr

The instant 4-point envelope edit is one of my favorite new features.

Would be mind too - if it worked correctly. Way to duplicate problem:
1. Create a selection area
2. Drag the envelope to create 4 points
3. Create new selection area (with at least 2 of the new points inside the selection area)
4. Now try to change ONE of those points - you can't (instead it creates a new "4 point" on the current selection area.

So... where is this a problem?

Here's one example: Suppose I have a velocity envelope on a clip and I'm trying to adjust it exactly the way I want. So I double-click the event and start the looping playback. Now I start adding new points on the envelope...... oops, I can't adjust these new points! Instead, I keep doing a 4-point adjustment!

My thoughts:

1. If I want to do a 4-point, I will drag the ENVELOPE LINE inside the selection area.
2. Anytime I grab a POINT, I want to adjust ONLY THAT POINT whether or not it is inside a selection area.

I understand the issue you have raised Edward (jetdv),
But its actually not an issue...you simply move the loop region completely
off the envelopes at anytime and you can adjust any individual point as
you desire.

But its actually not an issue...you simply move the loop region completely

Well... I fully understand that... but I have two issues with doing that.

1. I forget - then I have to undo, remove the selection area, readjust the point as I really wanted, and then press the "Backspace" key to get my selection area back (assuming I had it there for a specific reason).

2. I have a loop area playing so I can see what I'm doing. If I move/remove the selection area then I'm no longer looping what I wanted to see playing.

Seems it would be MUCH easier to simply do 4 points when dragging the envelope line inside the selection area and ONLY adjust a specific point when dragging a point.

It's all about "ease of use" - not "work arounds".

Good feature tips for the new V9.

>When you think about it... it's actually nice that Les Stroud has lent his name to the Vegas Pro training series. We often hear people complain that no one is doing "professional" work with Vegas (it's always Avid & FCP) and here we have a predominant TV show being cut on Vegas Pro. That's something to showcase.

I'm not sure if the "Survivor Man" is a good poster boy for Vegas. Though I personally think the content/concept of the show is good, everyone I talk to don't like the his shows because it looks amateurish and camera shakes when he walks around and repositions the camera makes them dizzy. The camera movement may seem OK on a small monitor but when viewed on a 40" or 50" LCD or Plasma it can be really hard on the eyes. Not sure if that's intentional but the people I talk to, who've seen the show, hate it.

Not sure if that's intentional but the people I talk to, who've seen the show, hate it.

Given that it's consistently in the top 5 shows on the network, I'd submit you're talking to the wrong people.
It's just Les out there. It would be non-reality if he were to set up every shot, lock it off, and then start action. Adlib just doesn't work like that.

IMO, Les is a great voice for Vegas because he actually uses it, actually is an editor, is a camera operator, musician, producer.
He edits, records, masters, and posts his show in Vegas. He recorded most of his new CD in Vegas. He mastered his CD in Sound Forge on a laptop.

whether one likes his show or not, he's a success story at every turn, and an "underdog done good" that demonstrates anyone can do it, IMO.
Plus, he's a helluva nice guy. ;-)

So if Grazie didn't post this link, how many of us would know it existed?

Is there any way to locate this video from the main website?

Buster, look under Support-Training:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/training

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/trainingvids-stroud.asp

Jøran Toresen

Me likes that new light rays effect.

It's nice to see some Sony training videos online One of things Adobe does exceptionally well is show people how to use their products. To this day I don't use Pro-titler much because of the lack of documentation.