1 Improved Color Grading Features

The latest update improves color grading in VEGAS Pro. You can now apply Color Grading to the Track, Media and Video Output levels. The Color Grading Panel also now has Brightness and Contrast controls. In addition, the update delivers performance improvements for the Color Grading curve options.

2. New Features for Vertical Video

The update to VEGAS Pro 19 adds new features aimed at users producing vertical videos for social media. The program has new templates for vertical aspect ratio projects. There are also new templates for rendering vertical aspect ratio projects. In addition, there is a new feature that allows the matching of aspect ratio to media. You can also automatically crop video to the project output aspect ratio.

3. New FX Tools

VEGAS Pro adds Bezier Curve support for keyframe animation for effects. There is also a new Motion Blur FX feature. In addition, the update adds support for the latest version of the OFX specification.

4. New GPU Features

The update to VEGAS Pro means that the hardware detection in the program now handles multiple GPUs from the same vendor. 

5. Other Great, New Additions

With the update to VEGAS Pro 19, you can now instantly crop the background for the Titles and Text Generator to the text box. Speech to Text now autodetects the OS language. There is also customized subtitle creation for Speech to Text. In addition, the update adds an indicator to identify locked timeline clip events.

6. Notable Bug Fixes

The upgrade notes list 35 important bug fixes for VEGAS Pro. These include that Border FX now properly releases GPU memory, and the Color Grading layout now properly shows Hub windows. There are also performance improvements for BRAW decoding. In addition, there are fixes for crashes that may happen with the Plugin Manager, the GL Transitions plugin and Color Curves FX.

Read the full article from Videomaker HERE

Learn more about MAGIX VEGAS Pro 19 HERE

Learn more about MAGIX HERE

Check out the thread, below:

Back in the dark ages, I used Premiere 6.0 and it had a feature I learned to love. It was call Story Board I think. It allowed me to go through all my wedding footage and snip out good pieces and drag them into the story board. Once in the story board I could drag clips (actually sub clips) around into order and then output to the timeline for final editing. I’m wondering if there isn’t some sort of feature that would allow this kind of work flow?

Geoff Chandler

It allowed me to go through all my wedding footage and snip out good pieces
The Vegas Timeline allows this too. You could create sub-clips of the “good parts” but it’s much better to learn to work with trimmed events. You can easily (and quickly) “drag” them around too.
Beyond this is to use the most powerful feature of Vegas, namely additional instances of Vegas open at the same time. You cannot edit everything all at once. Why anyone would want everything on one timeline is beyond me.
Editing is assembling pieces in a certain order. Mostly editing is used for time compression, to tell a longer story in a shorter period of time. Edit means cutting stuff out. Vegas has all the tools you’ll need to easily move things around and assemble individual events into sequences and then into sections and then into the final edit. It’s mostly a matter of learning how to select and move “events” within a timeline and between instances of Vegas. The “story telling” part of editing comes with your own creativity and experience. Vegas just gives you the tools to work with.
Here’s where I think Vegas excels. Let’s say you have story where the beginning is also the ending. So the story is told in flashback. So we have a single camera take that at the head end is our beginning and at the tail is our ending. It’s one piece of media, but it is two “events”. VEGAS WORKS WITH EVENTS. So you may have one timeline (veg file) for the “beginning” and another timeline (separate veg file) for the ending. Your assembly on each of these timelines includes this single piece of media, but they are different “events”. You could also have a timeline (separate veg) for “cutaways”, these being “events” that would help you bridge or time compress other scenes. For example, shots of the wedding guests listening to a wedding speech. When you are editing a wedding speech, you can have the “cutaways” all organized and open at the same time.
Am I making sense?

Paul Berk

Check out the full thread HERE.

Learn more about Vegas HERE.

Redsharknews.com recently posted a great review on Vegas Pro. We’re going to take a look at that article below!

Vegas, an extremely capable NLE that’s been around since 1999, is now owned by Magix. It seems to have found a comfortable and welcoming home with the German company, where it’s being actively developed and supported, after a period of stagnation and uncertainty.

I first came across Vegas very soon after it was released. You may be surprised to know that at first it didn’t support video. That’s an unusual strategy for a video editor, but – back then – it wasn’t a video editor. It was, quite specifically, an a multitrack audio application, and a very good one, I remember, if a little confusingly positioned in the market place because what it definitely wasn’t, was a multitrack version of Sound Forge, Sonic, Foundry’s seminal stereo audio editor.

I’d spent most of the previous years working for companies that sold DAWs, and I’d seen the demise of the hardware-based systems in favour of downloadable audio editors like Cool Edit Pro, which went on to become the basis for Adobe’s Audition.

So here was a very classy-looking multitrack audio editor that didn’t need specialist hardware. It was interesting for that alone. But then, along came Firewire (Sony called it iLink and engineers called it IEEE 1394), which was the first time you could link a digital camera directly to generic computer without a special interface card – although most PCs didn’t come with DV on the motherboards – so you still needed a DV interface.

redsharknews.com

Check out the full article HERE

Learn more about MAGIX Vegas Pro HERE

It’s a new year, but the doesn’t mean that the editing software landscape will change drastically in the coming months. For all intents and purpose, professional editing options boil down to four choices: Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Yes, I know Vegas, Lightworks, Edius, and others are still out there, but those are far off on the radar by comparison (no offense meant to any happy practitioners of these tools). Naturally, since blogs are mainly about opinions, everything I say from here on is purely conjecture. Although it’s informed by my own experiences with these tools and my knowing many of the players involved on the respective product design and management teams – past and present.

Avid continues to be the go-to NLE in the feature film and episodic television world. That’s certainly a niche, but it’s a niche that determines the tools developed by designers for the broader scope of video editing. Apple officially noted two million users for Final Cut Pro X last year and I’m sure it’s likely to be at least 2.5M by now. Adobe claims Premiere Pro to be the most widely used NLE by a large margin. I have no reason to doubt that statement, but I have also never seen any actual stats. I’m sure through the Creative Cloud subscription mechanism Adobe not only knows how many Premiere Pro installations have been downloaded, but probably has a good idea as to actual usage (as opposed to simply downloading the software). Bringing up the rear in this quartet is Resolve. While certainly a dominant color correction application, I don’t yet see it as a key player in the creative editing (as opposed to finishing) space. With the stage set, let’s take a closer look. Click here for the full article.

The first production monitor that also records 4K 12bit Raw, 10bit ProRes/DNxHR, plus 1080p60 live switching and recording

Atomos once again redefines the workflow options for video creatives by creating the first production/studio monitor to combine a 19” HDR 1200nit 10+ stop panel with 4K 12bit Raw or 10bit 422 ProRes/DNxHR recording and HD recording up to 240p or live switching and recording of four 1080p60 channels.

Adding HDR and 1200nit brightness to a 19” monitor at an MSRP of $2,495 is an amazing feat itself, but the addition of recording, switching and playback is a true revolution, completely redefining how production monitors will be used on set and in studio. It gives clients and crew on set instant access to review recorded content in HDR quality and doubles as a grading and editing monitor for laptops in the field. The live switching and recording is another dimension again adding the flexibility to live switch between four 1080/60p channels, record 4 x ISO channels and mix a live record complete with cueing, cross fade and hard cuts.

The EditBlog’s 2017 NLE Buyer’s Guide

Wherein we attempt to list all the major players in the current non-linear editing tool space and comment on each.

• Adobe Premiere Pro 2017
• Apple Final Cut Pro X 
• Avid Media Composer 
• Davinci Resolve 
• Magix Vegas Pro
• Lightworks
• Media 100
• Sony Catalyst
• Edius Pro 8 
• Hit Film
•  Final Cut Pro 7 (classic) 

Read Scott Simmon‘s full article here. 

Most users might never even use the window. After all, the very innovation that made VEGAS Pro an instant and enduring success was the efficiency with which the user can edit directly on the timeline. No longer was it necessary to bring your video into an old-school source window first to define in and out points. Instead, VEGAS Pro made it possible—and in many cases even preferable—to drag a file directly to the timeline, quickly trim the clip event down so that it includes just the portion of the clip you want, and then get on with the rest of your edit. One never even need touch a source window.

Yet there are times when a source window comes in handy. For instance, if you’re looking for a short segment—or several short segments—out of a longer file, defining such segments in a source window can be a more efficient workflow. That’s where the Trimmer window comes in.

Over the years, improvements have been made to the Trimmer window, but to many it still seemed clumsy and slow. VEGAS Pro 14 introduces new hover scrub technology that has opened many eyes and given users a reason to take a new look at the window. With hover scrub, any time you point your mouse at the video portion of the Trimmer window, the video scrubs to show you the frame currently under the mouse. This makes it possible to quickly—or slowly if you prefer—drag your mouse through the file and find the part you want.

Read the full article here.