This is a good feature and you can always drag and increase the size of the preview window thus increasing the resolution of the video playback. I guess this is to save processing power during the edit. The preview monitor tells you that the NTSC project is DV 720×480 but the preview monitor only shows 180×120. When I first worked on Vegas Pro, I found the layout a bit “boxey” similar in design to Adobe Premier Pro but less clinical and far more cluttered. Now I know FCP can manage the same but the speed of manipulating the clip while playing on the Vegas Pro 10 time line was impressive.įor an NLE editor used to working with Avid, Final Cut or Premier Pro, apart for the usual J,K,L and space bar control of clips it may take a little time to get familiar with Vegas Pros short cuts. The first major point that impressed me is that Vegas can deal with almost any format that you can throw on the time line. With a layout similar to Adobe Premier Pro, it took me a little time to get used to editing on Vegas Pro 10. He often works with a mix of video formats.

I was given a quick tutorial on operating this NLE by a friend, who uses Vegas for cutting quick promotional clips. I am a big fan of FCP over Avid and was very keen on seeing what Sonys new release Vegas Pro 10 could offer. Since then, I have spent a few years working on both tape and AVID with the BBC before returning to FCP back in 2007. This was sufficient for cutting news packages on the field. We chose to work with the Apple Mac G4 which, at that time, had only 256MB of RAM, allowing for basic DV editing with two audio channels. We needed a lightweight, durable and portable system throughout the assignment. My first non linear editing (NLE) system was Final Cut Pro v3.0 when I worked with an American TV network to cover the 2003 Iraq war. Paul Mongey takes the software through its paces Sony released Vegas Pro 10 last month in the Middle East. We needed a lightweight, durable and portable system throughout the

Paul Mongey takes the software through its paces My first non linear editing (NLE) system was Final Cut Pro v3.0 when I worked with an American TV network to cover the 2003 Iraq war.

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