It's more idle curiosity than anything else, cause I *snuggle* Vegas on a fairly regular basis. But I do wonder if there's value in just starting out where you're going to end and not having to switch later. Like right now, and for me for awhile for sure, Vegas does everything I need. But if I think there might be a day when it doesn't, it might make sense to just get Premiere, or whatever, and get familiar with it. Because I hate switching programs. What this means really, is that I'll probably stick with Vegas forever and when I find its limitations, just be stuck with them. Which is probably a long ways off anyway. So like I said, mostly idle speculation, though occasionally I do wonder?
Oooh I don't think I would like the track-length histograms for everything. Vegas does a track-length histogram for fade-in/fade out, but I really prefer to do it on each clip whenever possible (which is possible when fading from black). I'm sure that's just because I'm not used to it for everything else, but even for pan/zoom etc., it's hard enough for me to get it all right anyway that I'm sure I would frak stuff up unintentionally with histograms. Of course, this all goes back to the way I edit like a total maniac, laying all the clips in first, scrambling them up, and THEN doing 75% of the editing. I would half-assed pan/zoom on the first run through and then redo it ALL later, and it would be sad for me. At least if it's just clip by clip, I can mostly just delete it and start over, whereas I find histograms more finnicky for no rational reason.
Speaking of multiple tracks to "paint over" things, it occurred to me that you would find a screencap of my ongoing project hilarious. Because I use multiple tracks to paint over things, but I also use them to generally store clips I don't want to forget that I was thinking about using, or to move a set of clips from one section to another. But MOSTLY I use multiple tracks for NO REASON AT ALL, as you shall see. Just because for SOME reason I'll get started there for a section, and then...I'm off. Or something. So when I'm done, inevitably I have like...12 tracks or something ridiculous, and I go through and delete everything I'm not going to use and consolidate it all, and then, you know, do my editing thing. I think Poker Face wins cause I think it literally did have 12 tracks before I cleaned it up, but here's the current timeline for Where I End...
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Oooh I don't think I would like the track-length histograms for everything. Vegas does a track-length histogram for fade-in/fade out, but I really prefer to do it on each clip whenever possible (which is possible when fading from black). I'm sure that's just because I'm not used to it for everything else, but even for pan/zoom etc., it's hard enough for me to get it all right anyway that I'm sure I would frak stuff up unintentionally with histograms. Of course, this all goes back to the way I edit like a total maniac, laying all the clips in first, scrambling them up, and THEN doing 75% of the editing. I would half-assed pan/zoom on the first run through and then redo it ALL later, and it would be sad for me. At least if it's just clip by clip, I can mostly just delete it and start over, whereas I find histograms more finnicky for no rational reason.
Speaking of multiple tracks to "paint over" things, it occurred to me that you would find a screencap of my ongoing project hilarious. Because I use multiple tracks to paint over things, but I also use them to generally store clips I don't want to forget that I was thinking about using, or to move a set of clips from one section to another. But MOSTLY I use multiple tracks for NO REASON AT ALL, as you shall see. Just because for SOME reason I'll get started there for a section, and then...I'm off. Or something. So when I'm done, inevitably I have like...12 tracks or something ridiculous, and I go through and delete everything I'm not going to use and consolidate it all, and then, you know, do my editing thing. I think Poker Face wins cause I think it literally did have 12 tracks before I cleaned it up, but here's the current timeline for Where I End...
AHAHAHA I am not a real vidder.