Which book should I read *before* Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop?
by Travis Emmitt
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Jul 18, 2008 at 9:59:32 pm
Hi, a few months ago, I bought Vegas Movie Studio 8. The online help is good (and so are the tutorial videos), but I wanted something I could read offline (in bed). So I bought Douglas Spotted Eagle's "Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop". It's very detailed, but I think it assumes a certain level of familiarity with Vegas or video editing in general.
What I'd like to find is a book about Vegas that I can read *before* tackling "Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop". Something which will walk me through the basics of video editing and dvd authoring, ideally focused on Vegas.
Re: Which book should I read *before* Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop? by Douglas Spotted Eagle on Jul 19, 2008 at 4:41:34 am
I do assume a level of video editing experience on the part of the reader of the book, as novices generally don't spend 600.00 on a video editing application. So...there are words in there such as "segment, cutting, packages, track motion, splining," etc that are all found in the book's glossary on the included DVD (there wasn't enough paper budget to print the glossary).
There is an elementary Vegas book authored by John Rofrano and myself on Vegas Movie Studio that might help get you started.
There is no more "elementary" book on Vegas. There is one written by another author who doesn't actually use Vegas, and it's pretty apparent he doesn't, when you get into TrackMOtion, Pan/Crop, and compositing modes, as simple things become fairly convoluted very quickly.
Sony has a very good package, but it doesn't go into most of the "why things work this way" but rather "this button does this" and leaves it to you to figure out why you'd want that button to do that...
I'd like to write a very basic book on Vegas Pro, we did that for Vegas 5. It didn't sell well.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor
When I bought "Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop" I didn't know how big the differences were between Vegas Movie Studio and Vegas Pro. I assumed that Vegas' tiers were similar to those for Cakewalk Sonar, where the "studio" and "pro[ducer]" versions are identical at the workflow level, but the "pro" version has more plugins. So far the Vegas differences don't seem too great, although I wish I had more control and flexibility, and from what I've read, Pro will help.
If Vegas Pro 9 (which I'm hoping will come out in the next couple months) gets good reviews, I think I will upgrade to it. Of course, at that point, I will be looking for good books on Vegas 9! Do you intend to write another one?
Re: Which book should I read *before* Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop? by Travis Emmitt on Jul 19, 2008 at 2:24:28 pm
I thought Movie Studio 9 was coming out in August. Do the Pro and Movie Studio releases not coincide? If not, what is the usual latency for Pro's release?
