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If there’s one thing that any piece of software should do, it’s help us avoid repetition. You get more done in less time if you’re not trying to re-invent the wheel. Here are five tips to reuse work that you’ve already done in Sony Vegas so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
Tags: fx, generated media, nesting, presets, render, templates, transitions
I was just toying around in Sony Vegas and created a simple but, I think, nice animated background. It uses just two pieces of generated media, the Bump Map composting mode to give it some depth, and a transition I probably wouldn’t use under most circumstances. The end result is something like a pool of melted Crayons or plastic, though you can change settings along the way to get something different.
Tags: background, bump map, compositing, generated media, transitions
Although a loyal Vegas Pro user, I acquired the latest Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition for a couple of reasons. One, because it’s pretty capable in its own right. And two, because I enjoy answering questions on Sony Vegas message boards, but felt a bit unhelpful when it came to ones about Vegas Movie Studio (or VMS). I was never entirely sure what features were available in it or what quirks the program had. And with me writing tutorials that may be of interest to VMS users as well as Vegas Pro ones, it’s especially important for me to know how the programs differ.
Tags: comparison, Vegas, Vegas Movie Studio
We’ve got something a little different today from Youtube. It’s not really a tutorial and not specifically to do with Sony Vegas. (In fact, the description states that the piece was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. We’ll just ignore that little tidbit. [Oh, I'm just kidding.] Best I can tell, all of the post-production effects could just as well have been done in Vegas.) But what it is, is a series of several filmmaking technique examples from alfredbrownjohn for a high school production project. Part vocabulary lesson and part creative inspiration, it was too well done for me to leave unmentioned.
June 21, 2009: Keeping the Beat
Did you know that Vegas has a built-in metronome? Once you to to Options > Metronome to turn it on, Vegas will keep time for you based on the ruler settings for your project. To adjust the parameters for the project, and thus those for the metronome, go to File > Properties and choose the Ruler tab.
