SONY VEGAS 7 POUR SEPTEMBRE
Sony annonce la sortie prochaine de Vegas 7 pour septembre. Comme d’hab son lots de nouveautés in english pour ce banc de montage virtuel :
– 10bit. I think the next couple of releases of Vegas are going to be crucial in cementing Vegas as a serious contender. In this vein 10bit suppourt is a must have. Not nessasarilly because all that many users are going to need 10bit but rather simply because it builds part of the hearts and minds campaign of perception about a tools capabilities.
– HDV improvements. HDV in Vegas is good. It can always be better. A tighter integration with Cineform might be one way. Somehting like the rendering acceleration/real-time effects that Cineform can do inside Premiere Pro as AspectHD implimented into Vegas would be great. The other method might be soem sort of selective Long GOP splicign for editing native. Whilst I think editing native HDV is for the birds, transcoding is the only way to go, but it’s again about a hearts and minds campaign of public perception (ill-informed and distorted by marketign campaigns as that percpetion is)
– Bezier curve control on keyframes. Vegas has the most powerful compositing, motion graphics tools of any NLE around (3d track motion, pan/crop, bezier masks, composit modes, keys, parent/child etc) but keyframe velocity control is lacking; restricted to selectable parameters (slow, fast, linear etc) rather than controllable via bexier curves.
– Many of best script functions that we all use should be built into the main Vegas engine. For example: Batch render, L & J cut, Normalise all shoudl be options of the main menus. Scripting is great and should be encouraged but I shoudlnt need a Script for key functions like batch-render.
– Workspaces improvements. The "CTRL+ALT+D then Number" procedure is just silly for creating and recalling workspaces. They should be just selectable off a menu like After Effects and Premiere do. Likewise invertign the interface so timeline is at bottom should be selectable form main menu rather than the obscure and mostly unknown emthod of enterign the Internal controls of the Preferences.
– Storyboard function. This could operate in the Porject Media window or be a seperate tool altogether – but the ability to freely arrange thumbnails of clips in order as a way of doing a rough story-board pre-edit would be exceptionally useful.
– DVD making from timeline. I dont mean like Liquid does where the DVD authoring is built into the NLE – I still prefer seperate DVD Authoring apps – but the ability to burn straight off the timeline an auto-play DVD (or even one with a basic menu like Premiere Pro does) would be incredibly useful for quick and dirty draft versions for clients.
– Titling… Of course this is one of the most crticised areas of Vegas. Certainly if you know what you’re doing you can make the Vegas titler do very cool things but by comparission to Premiere’s superb titling tool or FCP’s Live-Type its very arcane in its workings, clumbsy to use and under-powered. It could be a lot friendlier.
