Hi all

I am trying my hand at the trial version of Vegas 6.0. I am very impressed with it so far, execept for the price.

I have used MM2 before and would like to know if there is something in between Movie Maker 2 and Vegas?

Is the software by Pinnacle good?

thanks

I have found Vegas 6.0 to be the best program yet. I tried WMM but to no avail. Vegas offers so much more. There is a lot to it and the manual helps out a great deal. IMO Vegas is the only way to go.

S!

Vegas is very good, i use it, LOCsta uses it, and so does the majority of people that make lock on movies as well.

Glowing,

What are the best settings for Vegas for rendering an .avi file? I have a short 3min test movie that has turned into a 7G file.

I have tried using the DivX codec, but the quality of the movie is really degraded.

Thanks for any tips

The software I use is Sony Screenblast Movie Maker, which is a cut down version of Vegas5, I believe. It has an almost identical interface and many of the same features.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp

...shows the equivalent now is called Vegas Movie Studio. The only limitation that annoys me is the limit of 3 video channels and 3 audio. There are times when an extra video channel would be useful. However the price is *much* better.

Andrew McP

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Originally posted by CaptCanada2005:
Glowing,

What are the best settings for Vegas for rendering an .avi file? I have a short 3min test movie that has turned into a 7G file.

I have tried using the DivX codec, but the quality of the movie is really degraded.

Thanks for any tips

... Capt, I think it is about DivX codec settings. I am using Adobe Premiere 6.0 for editing, and DivX compression in final, but I don't use direct compresion during exporting video timeline in Premiere. I export whole video with no compression (about 4GB for 3 minutes in 640x480) and then use DrDivX tool for final encoding. I am using 2-pass encoding with minimum 2500bps bitrate and slowest-performance/high-quality setting (these two parameters strongly affect final quality of movie and, of course, it's size). I found it better then direct encoding with Premiere, because that is single-pass and not so optimized.

Thanks for the reply.

I am really new to this whole video editing thingy. I am really enjoying it though.

I am still learning about compression codecs and all the other settings that go into making a quality movie. DrDivx seems really great, even though I have the trial vesion.

I was so used to Movie Maker file sizes that I guess I felt all DV editing suites would create a final file size similiar to that of MM default settings.

Thanks again

quote:

Originally posted by Andrew_McP:
the equivalent now is called Vegas Movie Studio. The only limitation that annoys me is the limit of 3 video channels and 3 audio. There are times when an extra video channel would be useful.

I just noticed that Vegas Movie Studio allows 4 video and 4 audio channels. That in itself is enough to loosten my grip on my credit card for the upgrade from Screenblast Movie Studio.

No doubt I'll then decide I need five. :-)

Andrew McP

I use a MAC with Final Cut Pro at my school. IT is probaly the best and easiest software out there to learn. An alternative if you have a PC is Vegas, both are pretty much the same.

FCP allows up to 99 video tracks I believe and 99 audio tracks, try that on for size.