looks to be trying to steal the thunder of some other plugins like US, Excalibur & Veggie toolkit.....bit overpriced tho, considering less functionality on the surface
Re: new Vegas Pro Production Assistant... by Douglas Spotted Eagle on Apr 20, 2009 at 3:03:14 pm
Price-wise, it's less than Ultimate S, and does quite a bit more, not to mention that it has several similar features to Ultimate S.
It's actually a very powerful, fast tool that doesn't need to have Vegas open to do some of the work it does....
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor
Re: new Vegas Pro Production Assistant... by John Rofrano on Apr 24, 2009 at 4:13:52 am
> I hope we get Ultimate S update for working with Vegas 9
Hi Fotis,
We have Ultimate S Pro 4 working with Vegas Pro 9.0 in 32-bit and 64-bit mode and have been demoing it at NAB 2009 all this week. It is also backward compatible with Vegas Pro 8.0 and 8.1. We actually held off releasing the 8.1 64-bit update because we wanted to be sure that it worked in 9.0 64-bit as well. The update will be available for download before Vegas Pro 9.0 ships.
Re: new Vegas Pro Production Assistant... by John Rofrano on Apr 24, 2009 at 4:39:12 am
> looks to be trying to steal the thunder of some other plugins like US, Excalibur & Veggie toolkit.....bit overpriced tho, considering less functionality on the surface
Sorry I didn't see this thread earlier. I didn't have time to check the forums while out at NAB 2009. (...and still catching my breath) ;-)
Just to clear things up, Production Assistant is based on some of the Ultimate S technology and was create by VASST for Sony (hence the Powered by VASST logo on the box). It is specifically solving a different problem than US, Excalibur & Veggie toolkit. While the former are interactive tools or batch rendering tools, Production Assistant is all about hands-off process automation.
If you create standard format videos like daily shows or weekly shows or even same day events, Production Assistant can reduce hours of editing and assembly down to minutes. It pays for itself in the first day or two of use. It does this by allowing you to create templates with media slugs of your projects and then selecting a template and only the media that changes from project to project and it assembles a new project from the template substituting the real media for the slugs. We have already developed a workflow that was shown at the NAB Vegas Users Party last Monday night that creates skydiving same day event videos with only inserting the memory card and naming the folder to capture the media. The next thing you have is a complete project complete with intros, music, etc. ready to burn to DVD... totally hands off and fool proof!
Production Assistant also has process automation capabilities not found in other tools. You can create process workflows like adding network bugs or logos, then an 16:9 animated underlay to 4:3 media, then capturing representative thumbnails, etc. and save all of those steps as a preset workflow. Then with one click of a button process hundreds of files applying each process in the workflow and then rendering to multiple output formats. Once again saving hours of valuable editor's time and paying for itself in the first couple of uses.
There will be quick start videos published on the Sony site once the product is available so you can see the workflows that this tool addresses. It does not negate the need for tools like Ultimate S or Excalibur. While it does contain some of the interactive tools from Ultimate S, it is all about hands-off automation which no other tool addresses.
Hope that helps clear things up. Feel free to ask more questions.
Re: new Vegas Pro Production Assistant... by Ed Sharpe on Apr 26, 2009 at 3:56:11 am
Seems like this new addition will solve all the problems I have encountered using VEGAS for QUCK turnaround on run and gun news stories to post FAST!
Since Vegas 6 I have lamented it did not have these features... Kudos Sony. Keep it up. (Yea Preordered the VEGAS 9 Update and Production Assistant on the same order).
Is there a link up yet for the manual on the production assistant?
