Comments on: Sony Vegas Newbie Studio Platinum: For the Weekend Movie Maker http://createdigitalmotion.com/2006/09/06/sony-vegas-newbie-studio-platinum-for-the-weekend-movie-maker/ Motion graphics, live visuals, VJing, video production, and interactive art Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Keith Crosley http://createdigitalmotion.com/2006/09/06/sony-vegas-newbie-studio-platinum-for-the-weekend-movie-maker/#comment-427 Keith Crosley Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:31:22 +0000 http://createdigitalmotion.com/2006/09/06/sony-vegas-newbie-studio-platinum-for-the-weekend-movie-maker/#comment-427 I highly recommend Vegas Movie Studio Platinum... for many, many users it will provide all the functionality they ever need -- without having to pay for the full version of Vegas. ALSO, buying VMSP is the most inexpensive way of getting the ability to render video to the awesome CINEFORM codec, which is terrific for VJ applications. Note that VMSP is also compatible third-party plug-ins for the full version of Vegas. For example, I use the full versions of Magic Bullet for Editors, Pixelan SpiceMaster, etc. It may sound weird (to use a "consumer" app with plug-ins that cost 3X the price), but for the VAST majority of DV or HDV projects, Vegas Movie Studio is awesome and represents a huge value. The 7.0 version adds 5.1 surround support, eliminating one of the major limitations of previous versions. BTW, Primary color correction means that the Sony Vegas "Primary Color Corrector" tool/plug-in is included. This is Vegas's main color correction tool. The Vegas "secondary color corrector" (which is a pretty cool tool -- useful for some types of matte creation and "colorpass" effects) is NOT included. -K- I highly recommend Vegas Movie Studio Platinum… for many, many users it will provide all the functionality they ever need — without having to pay for the full version of Vegas. ALSO, buying VMSP is the most inexpensive way of getting the ability to render video to the awesome CINEFORM codec, which is terrific for VJ applications.

Note that VMSP is also compatible third-party plug-ins for the full version of Vegas. For example, I use the full versions of Magic Bullet for Editors, Pixelan SpiceMaster, etc. It may sound weird (to use a “consumer” app with plug-ins that cost 3X the price), but for the VAST majority of DV or HDV projects, Vegas Movie Studio is awesome and represents a huge value. The 7.0 version adds 5.1 surround support, eliminating one of the major limitations of previous versions.

BTW, Primary color correction means that the Sony Vegas “Primary Color Corrector” tool/plug-in is included. This is Vegas’s main color correction tool. The Vegas “secondary color corrector” (which is a pretty cool tool — useful for some types of matte creation and “colorpass” effects) is NOT included.

-K-

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