Muzman on 16/1/2008 at 16:20
Quote Posted by Thirith
I've been playing around with Vegas Movie Studio a bit. It seems okay enough, but there are two things I don't like right now: 1) the trimmer isn't very user-friendly (or at least I haven't been able to figure it out), especially when compared with Premiere and Avid, and 2) I miss the function that those two other programs have where you can finetune the point where one scene stops and the next starts. In Premiere (or was it Avid? It's been two years since I worked with them), you get this useful window where you see the last frame of scene A and the first frame of scene B, and you can adjust these frame by frame. In Vegas Movie Studio, I seem to be reduced to fairly imprecise mouse trimming...
I got the demo for pro the other day, to see how it goes with the camera I got (and just how woefull the performance of my computer might be with its footage); can you not just switch on snapping and frame by frame each clip in the timeline with the arrow keys and trim to cursor/play head or move the end of the clip by hand to the cursor with the mouse (which will then snap to the frame you want)? That seems ok to me. I haven't really played with it much, but I'm guessing you're using some sort of cut point window it's got (as do most NLEs). A lot of that depends on how you do things, and how you want to do things. I've known some people who were whizzes with the cut window and the transition windows in Final Cut, but the vast majority I've known (me among them) are all about the three Rs: Ripple, Roll and Razor Blade. So any advice I give is based in that approach and trying to replicate it in Vegas as much as I can and might not be all that comfortable.
