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Old 04-16-2008, 09:29 PM   #1
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Vegas vs AE?

On a few machinimas that I have been watching, I notice that there are occasions that Sony Vegas is used along with After Effects. I'm rather new to WoW machinima work, though I have a reasonable amount of experience working with AE and Premiere Pro.

Is there anything that Vegas exceeds at compared to the other two? Better blue/greenscreening maybe? I'm just thinking that I might be missing something, as some movies have both programs credited.
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Old 04-16-2008, 11:04 PM   #2
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Well, for me, I use AE to make my intro. That's it really. Vegas is used to edit the rest of my video.
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Old 04-16-2008, 11:18 PM   #3
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AE is made for making clips (fancy effects, generating, etc). Premiere and vegas are used for compositing (positioning, cropping, simple effects, transitions, cutting). Thats the difference, essentially.
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Old 04-17-2008, 12:46 AM   #4
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Strange.. Is it odd for me to be doing mostly everything in After Effects then? eg, keying, positioning, transitions, ect... I mainly only use Premiere for syncing up sound and placing the clips together. Is this method inefficient? (long render times in AE, after all..)
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Old 04-17-2008, 01:42 AM   #5
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I use AE to do it all
Personally I Hate premiere etc after years of editing on Avid and I find the RAM preview on AE to be very very handy
There isn't any problems doing it all in AE imo, just that it's a compositing package not an online editing package, so in that respect it doesn't have the `cutting' tools other packages have (not that ya really miss them)

AE comes with a 30 day trail, so if ya can't afford it, download it (a few gigs if iirc) and make sure ya ready to go and get stuck in for 30 days nps
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Old 04-20-2008, 10:29 AM   #6
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This next question is somewhat on topic, so I'll add it here.

Keying. I'm still trying to get a handle on Keylight addon from The Foundry.. It's rather annoying to use. The edges around my characters become either fuzzy or have a thick black outline (is this normal?)

In your opinion, is Vegas better compared to AE in this field? Or should I just keep kicking away at this addon?
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Old 04-27-2008, 10:42 AM   #7
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youre doing everything right Vegas Premiere is NOT for compositing , i mean After Effects is a compositing programm... Just find out how keylight works best, play around with the settings for shrink and blur
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