Sony Vegas 9

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lakotawolf

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So i decided that i want to upgrade from the edius that came with the HMC150. I have been playing around with Sony Vegas 9 on a free trial . Just want some feed back on this program. Since this is my first time really getting into the editing thing , i wanna be sure this program isnt garbage. Its in my price range but i want to make sure i`ll be happy with it.
 
I do a lot of scene shootings of car accidents and structure fires , i also do training video`s for the Fire Dept. In a nut shell i want to be able to do some corrections of my footage instead of using raw footage and also put together montage`s with music and effects. My operating system is Windows vista 64-bit with 8 gigs of ram and a AMD 9650 quad core.
 
Another concern of mine is being able to correct grainy noise from low light night shoots. Will i be able to correct in Vegas or is there a plug in i can get to solve that kind of problem?
 
There's been an interesting thread in the Creative Cow Sony VV forum that I started, asking about comparisions on FCP vs. VV. I'm running 64 Bit Windows7 with the 9.0c trial lately, and it's working just fine. I'm quite impressed w/Vegas, I assume I'm going to buy it. Takes the raw 150 format just fine. I've not bumped into limits yet, but I'm not doing deep stuff. But in the thread a bunch of folks who have worked with various systems chime in. Worth a read if you are undecided, I'd say. The only thing I'd wonder about is what you have been using, and what you like or don't like about it...

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/903233#903312
 
That was a pretty good read. I went through a footage review session tonight with my director. I am on Vegas, he's on FC. I borrowed his drive today (Mac formatted) connected it to my PC, dropped my Avid DNxHD graded finals onto his drive, unplugged it and went to his house. He copied those files to his drive, did a media replace (since my new files were named the same as the original ones) and we had new, graded media on the timeline.

And then the timeline rendering started. I had forgotten about that. When I cut on Premiere that frustrated me no end. We wanted to go clip by clip and check my work. And he had to render everything that was new. We made notes as we went along. I saw some clips that I wanted to tweak so I asked him if we could fix them. He said that the color tools were crude. I had forgotten we would need to jump out of the NLE to color, to do any significant work. When we were done 2.5 hours later, he asked if I wanted a final copy, and I said yes. So he had to render the timeline again.

I asked a question and was shocked by the answer. I asked if FCP would remember the portions we'd just worked on and speed up the timeline render. The answer was no. Those were "preview" renders only. In Vegas, if you do this, it renderes to the final format you choose. So when you need to do your final render, it skips right past the portions it's already done. MUCH smarter implementation.

FCP has much better outside support than Vegas, and with it's suite of tools, it can do things Vegas cannot. But I can do things so much faster in Vegas it's not even funny. It was nearly painful watching him move around in FCP to do stuff I do in 2 clicks. And he's been cutting in FCP for years.
 
I have just been a recent victim of the mac movement.

I have edited on PC for years from Sony Vegas 6 to 9.... Let me tell you, vegas is just as good as other NLE's. Vegas seems to make all common functions accessible right from the timeline... I can zoom, split, fade, transition, move etc by just clicking on the right area on the footage and dragging here and there.

FCP sucks in this aspect, who wants to go select a different mouse tool for every function you are working with. Even learning the shortcuts are still an extra 2 steps to switch over and back... eh.

Audio makes sense editing in Vegas, FCP lost its mind. Vegas is very similar to good old Sound Forge, also made by sony, which established a very solid sound editing program back in the day...

On the other hand the FCP suite offers much much better effects and generators. Motion and FCP are very friendly and can get anything done. Same goes with Vegas and After Effects, great when used together.
 
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For me 1st, second, 3rd place goes to Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro lastly Avid. I tried editing with SOny Vegas and got lost in the interface instantly. I guess it takes time to master the environment. For those who edits with FCP, may not have a problem adjusting to Premiere Pro.

I prefer Motion to After FX simply because I'm not too skillful with the complexity of working in After effects.

I guess as long as you know how to cut video, no matter with what you cut it, (ultimately the audience wants to see an above average video) then any editing tool is cool! And when your video is cool, people who know nuts about video editing will usually start questioning, "So which software did you use"?
People who know nothing tend to think that a software is the main contributer that makes all the wonders. Not the cutter! AND that is so wrong!
 
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