Have you upgraded to Sony Vegas Pro 11? Use these tips to get the most out of the new features.
1. To deliver a high-quality video file for posting on sites like YouTube, Vimeo, or your own website, render to the
MainConcept AVC format and use the
Internet HD 1080p
template. This provides a high-quality video, and if you have an
OpenCL-enabled graphics card in your render computer, the render will
draw on the card’s GPU to render significantly faster than other
formats.
2. To render a file for Web streaming, render to the
MainConcept AVC format and select the
Enable Progressive Download checkbox
in the Video tab of the Custom Settings dialog box. This results in a
file that users can seek through even before the entire file has
finished downloading from the streaming server.
3. In the Render As dialog box, select the
Add this render template to your favorites button for each template that you frequently use. Then, when you want to find those templates in the future, select the
Show favorites only checkbox.
This sorts your list of file formats and templates down to just those
you’ve marked as favorites. Instead of looking through dozens of formats
and scores of templates, you now only need to browse through your few
favorites to find the one you want.
4. If you have several events on your timeline that are related
(for example, as part of a sequence), you’ll probably want to be able to
control their position on the timeline as a related pack of events. The
Grouping function is great for this. However, if you
know that you may also need to tweak the placement or trimming of
individual events within the related pack (e.g., making minor
adjustments to the position of a sound effect event), grouping can be
too restrictive. In such cases, use the new
Sync Link
feature to create a relationship between the events. Sync Link works
much like Grouping in that you can move the entire pack by moving the
control event, but offers more flexibility to adjust individual members
of the pack without adjusting the others.
5. The new OFX implementation for video filters, transitions, and
media generators, provides you with greater control over parameter
animation. To animate any parameter in these plug-ins, click the
individual
Animate button for that
parameter. If you’ve animated several plug-ins in the same chain or
several parameters of the same plug-in, click the
Curves button
to view and work on the resulting automation envelopes separately.
Click the tag for the effect and parameter you want to adjust in order
to sort the envelope view and make it very easy to find the envelope you
need for the parameter you’re adjusting.
6. To quickly add animated text to your project, click the
Media Generators tab and select the new
Titles & Text generator
from the list. Point to the various presets to find the animation you
like, and drag that preset into your timeline. If you decide you want a
different animation, choose the new one from the
Animation drop-down list in the
Video Media Generator window.
7. When using the new Titles & Text generator, use the text
box that appears in the Video Preview window to adjust the size and
position of your text. This makes it extremely easy to place your text
into your video in a way that is most appropriate relative to the
content of your video. If the position box does not appear in the Video
Preview window, click the
Generated Media button
for the event that holds your text on the timeline. This opens the
Video Media Generators window with the text controls in it, and also
opens the position box in the Video Preview window.
8. If you experience an edge violation in your 3D video clips, the
viewer’s brain will have trouble making sense out of the placement of
objects in the foreground of your scene. To avoid this problem, use the
Floating Windows
controls in the Stereoscopic 3D Adjust filter to mask the appropriate
video stream, thus eliminating the conflicting visual signals caused by
the edge violation.
9. When you use the Cookie Cutter filter or the Iris or Cross
Effect transitions on 3D footage, the cutout created by these plug-ins
can conflict with the 3D placement of objects in your video. To correct
such conflicts, use the new
Stereoscopic 3D Depth Control to move the cutout behind or in front of screen depth so that it works more effectively with other objects in the video.
10. You can specify whether you want Vegas Pro to process event
video effects in your project either before or after any cropping
adjustments to the event. Depending on the effect you’re using and the
pan/crop adjustments you’re making, this can have a big impact on the
final appearance of your video. Event pan/cropping is simply a part of
the video event FX chain and you can place it anywhere within that
chain. If you want to pan/crop
before any video effects, you don’t need to change anything — this is the “
Pre-Effect Mode” and is the default state. If you want to pan/cropping
after the effects are applied (Post-Effect Mode), drag the “
Pan/Crop“
button from the beginning of the effects chain and drop it after the
button for the effect. You can set pan/cropping into post-effects mode
for some effects in the chain while it remains in pre-effects mode for
others.
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