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CreativeCOW Vegas Video Tutorials and Reviews:
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Other Vegas Resources
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Excalibur 4.5 Reviewed In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews Excalibur 4.5 Scripting plug-in for Sony Vegas and writes..."Ed Troxel is well known to anyone who has even a passing knowledge of Vegas. His program Excalibur is a marvelous plug-in that takes well-written scripts and allows the user to automate many different effects with the press of a key. Ed has done the work of writing, debugging, and finalizing the scripts so that you don’t have to." Product Review, Sony Vegas |
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Sony Vegas Michael Hurwicz looks at Sony's Vegas 6.0 video/audio editing software, picking up where Jim Harvey left off. Sony Vegas, Product Reviews |
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Sony Vegas 6 Reviewed CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews the exciting new release of Sony Vegas 6.0 and says, "It's here and I'm loving it! The release of Sony Vegas 6.0 has been eagerly awaited by previous users as well as those just embarking on the NLE adventure. Sony has stepped up to the plate with the new Vegas with new tools and functionality that promise to make constructing your video project as effortless as possible." Product Review, Sony Vegas 6 |
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Jim Harvey takes a look at: Sony Vegas 5 Last year Jim Harvey considered himself fortunate to review Vegas 4, but when Sonic Foundry was acquired by Sony Pictures, everyone wondered what would happen to Vegas -- Jim included. Many doubted that Sony would continue developing Vegas but Vegas 5 has proven the nay-sayers wrong. Not only has Sony Pictures not abandoned Vegas, but they've given it a full numbered uprade. Read on to find out what Jim has to say about this new offering from Sony Pictures. Sony Vegas, Product Reviews |
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DVD Architect In the past, when Jim Harvey's clients requested a dvd, he always sent his finished work out for someone else to create the dvd. It just seemed there were too many problems, too many questions until he discovered Sonic Foundry's Vegas + DVD. Now it's "Need a DVD? Great. No problem with DVD Architect." Vegas + DVD, Product Reviews ~ 06/25/03 |
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Animated Smoke and Fog and X-Files like Titles In this tutorial, Brÿan Block will walk you step by step through the creation of an opening title reminiscent of the "X-Files" television show using Photoshop and Vegas. (The photoshop part of this tutorial can be used to create files to be used with most NLEs) Preparing Graphics for Video, Vegas |
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Simulating the Bullet-Time Effect in Vegas Video 3 using the Free WinMorph plug-in In this tutorial, Satish Kumar demonstrates the famous Matrix style Bullet-time effect in Vegas Video: A man leaps in the air with a gun, fires a shot, and then hovers in the air while the camera moves around him 180 degrees. To create this effect, we have the shot of the man leaping in the air as a video and 6 still shots of him in the air at different angles. We will morph between the still shots using the WinMorph plug-in for Vegas. This morphed video is composited with a moving background giving the 180 degree camera rotation effect. Vegas Video |
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Digital Compositing for NTSC Broadcast Segments Late last year, Bryan Wilhite had the opportunity to do some digital compositing work on a feature-length documentary about the life of the great theatre, television and screen actress Beah Richards. Vegas Video was the indespensable tool for his role in the production. In this article, Bryan shares some tips that he learned. Sonic Foundry Vegas |
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Vegas Sound for Picture In this article, Jeffrey P. Fisher discusses how ideal Vegas is for sweetening soundtracks for indie films, documentaries, music videos, commercial spots, and corporate productions destined for DVDs, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and broadcast with a few tricks of the trade. Vegas |
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Jim Harvey reviews: Vegas 4 In the never ending war of which NLE is the best, it appears that Sonic Foundry has quietly set into motion a program that threatens to rock the NLE world and turn it all on its head. Jim Harvey takes a good look at Vegas 4 to see what everyone's been talking about. Sonic Foundry Vegas 4, Product Reviews |
Other Vegas Video Tutorials:
Links to other helpful tutorial sites:
BillyBoy's Vegas Video Tutorials: Main Menu Page. Looks like he's always adding tutorials -- so check back.
- Calibration and Adjustment: User friendly how-to for calibrating your external monitor and televisions to NTSC standards. A very important and often overlooked first step to successfully making level and color adjustments to videos.
- Images too dark or washed out: Two common problems with detailed how-to fixes using levels and color curves filters. Includes expanded section on Demystifying the "S" Curve. See Tutorial 10 for step-by-step on using Color Curves to correct your images.
- Removing Unwanted Color Shading: Expands on the first tutorial using separate color channel and overlay to fine tune colors and remove unwanted color casts.
- Color Adjustments by the Numbers: Building on the principles of the first two tutorials we go a step further learning how to make more accurate color corrections by applying complement filters and a semitransparent overlay.
- It is very easy to make slide shows with Vegas Video, but why settle for a ho-hum presentation, when with a little extra effort you can add advanced effects that go far beyond simple transitions. This tutorial is designed to be a hands-on exercise. Feel free to copy the image files link from the tutorial page, then work through the tutorial step by step as you build the mini video.
- A few exercises on masking plus adding/removing the color from images.
- Improving the audio portion of your videos is important too. This tutorial gives you some interesting tips on how to turn a flat sounding and boring mono source file into a dramatically improved fully separated right and left channel production.
- Get rid of annoying sounds your video camera makes. Learn how to make a simple noise profile that can eliminate them and other background noise.
- Using Scopes and Color Corrector Exciting powerful new features in version four of Vegas. Now you have much more power adjust colors and levels, plus Vegas now comes with Scopes showing real time changes in your video.
- Using Scopes and Color Corrector Wheels Using Color Curves and Color Corrector and Color Corrector Secondary to match videos from different cameras, altering levels, removing color casts, balancing hues.
- Advanced Color Curves. A detailed step-by-step to understanding how to use this powerful filter to improve your images by adjusting the three key regions of all images, shadows, midtones and highlights.
- Advanced Color Correction Part One: Using Color Corrector and Color Corrector secondary to finish up the image started in previous tutorial.
- Advanced Color Correction Part Two: Using Color Corrector Secondary to change the color of one or more parts of your image continued from previous tutorial.
Chienworks VidShare (share your Vegas & Video Factory videos)
http://www.crazypants.com: 1 tutorial and two downloadable templates: dealing with the basics of creating motion menus for DVD authoring.
German Tutorials: Broadcast Colors, Voice-Over, Slow motion, Red on black-and-white, Picture sections cover
Please note: I've translated the titles with Sherlock translater, so some may not be totally accurate. These tutorials are in German. If you don't speak German, you might try one of the on-line translaters and get the general idea.
Marty Hedler's Vegas Tutorials
- Tutorials incluse the following: Titles, Multicam, Macros, FX-Chains, Appearance, Draw-on, Split-Screen, Split-Screen II, Type-on 3DPlugin Bullet-Time!, Stills & Aspect, Maps & Lines, Quick Color-Corr., Letterbox-Mask, Pan-Crop Path... Marty adds tutorials all the time. Check back.
Vegas + DVD Tips, Tricks, and Scripts -- A newsletter from Edward Troxel
Plugins:
DeBug Mode: Plugins from Satish Kumar
Scott's Fabulous Website
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