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epirb wrote on 8/16/2004, 6:47 PM
If your talking Sony plugs and outside plugs I would recc.
Noise Reduction- Sony
Excalibur,Tsunami, Neon
and one of the movie loooks plugs like Magic Bullet or Zenote' is supposed to be coming out with a movie looks thats much faster in reneding.
plenty other great one out there like for titling and such too, just depends on what you want to do. but the above tools are must have's IMHO
Spot|DSE wrote on 8/16/2004, 6:53 PM
I'd go Zenote long before going Magic Bullet. Bullet is SO slow, and Zenote's tools are already capable of doing similar looks much faster.
On the audio side, I'd add the Ozone from iZotope. Epirb is right about NR. EVERYONE should own that plug.
musman wrote on 8/16/2004, 10:54 PM
I'm thinking this was an oversight, but I'd add sound forge to the mix.
Don't want to hijack this thread too much, but what do you use ozone for that can't be done with sound forge? All I've seeen is the little bit mentioned in the Sound Forge DVD tutorials. It looks cool but at $350 seems a bit pricey.
stormstereo wrote on 8/17/2004, 2:15 AM
And of course I would add all the free ones out there. Start here:
http://www.blue7media.com/vegas/

Best/Tommy
farss wrote on 8/17/2004, 2:41 AM
Could I respectively suggest that Vegas has more than you'll need for quite a while. Learn how to use and use well what's there. When you've got that under your belt then you'll appreciate and know how to get the most out of the 3rd party stuff.

Look at any craftsman, how many tools does he have?

If you've got money to spend on more kit then think about things that help the sound and image before it gets to Vegas. Well shot video and well recorded audio should need very little tweaking and when it does the tools work so much better. Making good into perfect is easy, making bad into good is impossible.

My apologies if you already know this, kind of feel though if you did you probably wouldn't be asking this.

But yes I do agree Noise Reduction and SF are pretty damn useful unless you've got access to a real sound stage. Seeing as how SF ships with Acoustic Mirror a Clapper board can be very handy.

Bob.
Spot|DSE wrote on 8/17/2004, 7:58 AM
You can do a LOT with Ozone that can't be done with Forge. Besides it's "Mastering for dummies" mode, the over sound quality can't be matched by anything currently in the Sony lineup (unless they port Oxford over to DX)
Plus, it's got general fix-me-ups for most situations already programmed as presets.
Sound Forge isn't a plugin, but IMO it's an essential to any Vegas user.
Stonefield wrote on 8/18/2004, 9:50 AM
I agree with farss, no plugin or FX can replace a beautifully photographed piece of footage. Get the basics down, then start going nuts on plugins.
planders wrote on 8/18/2004, 10:09 AM
I'll also chime in for Ozone and NR. They aren't cheap, but they're definitely worth it.

Even if you don't use the presets in Ozone, its controls are ideally suited to getting the results you were hoping for very quickly.

On the video side, Excalibur, Neon and Tsunami have already been mentioned, but I'll also add SpiceMaster. At first glance it's simply a transition, but it gives you lots of control and you can create some absolutely beautiful effects with it. I recently did a promo DVD for a theatre I volunteer for, produced in Vegas with liberal use of SpiceMaster and some Photoshop titles. To make a long story short, the first showing (at a fundraising dinner) led to a few spilled drinks--and more shock when I revealed that I had produced it in an evening, in a hotel room while on a business trip.

It's worth spending a couple thousand bucks if the results look like a million... :)

On that note, I'm anxiously awaiting delivery of my copy of Boris Red 3GL.