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March 20th, 2009, 10:15 PM
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Does Vegas have a story board option?
Does Vegas have a story board option like Movie maker or does everything have to be done on the time line?
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March 20th, 2009, 11:23 PM
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Storyboard style is aimed at beginners. Vegas is aimed more at professionals or prosumers.
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March 21st, 2009, 12:26 AM
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Hi Kevin,
Vegas has no story board option, but you can download Celtx witch is for writing screenplays and has a story board option. And it is free. Do a search on Wikipedia. Terry |
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March 21st, 2009, 01:40 AM
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March 21st, 2009, 05:47 AM
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Turns out that once I spent some time learning a time-line that the story board method is actually more difficult and lacks the flexibility that a time-line gives. It takes more time to learn a time-line at least for some but once you get the hang of it you will not want to go back to the limitations of the story board method. Danny Fye VidMus Video - Music Productions
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March 21st, 2009, 07:39 AM
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Gints thats my thought exactly. I have the trail version of Sony Vegas an to me its not easy to work with. The story board makes things a lot easier. ANy other programs out there that has a storyboard while give you you two tracks of audio and a separate track for narration?
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March 21st, 2009, 12:46 PM
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Try Pinnacle12 it has storybook but is more cpu dependent then studio
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March 21st, 2009, 01:21 PM
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Taken away too young... rest in peace Eugene
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I came to Vegas from a storyboard/timeline NLE, Newtek's SpeedEDIT. And honestly, I don't miss the storyboard at all. The compromises required to keep the duality of a storyboard and timeline working together were just too great.
As for moving events around on the Vegas timeline, don't forget that Vegas has a VERY powerful storyboard feature called "shuffle" that makes this very easy. Just right click on an event on the timeline and move it to where you want, release the mouse and you get the context menu "Move, Copy, Shuffle". Pick "Shuffle" and you have dropped it in that spot as easily and quickly as you could on a storyboard.
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March 21st, 2009, 02:56 PM
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I had no idea that feature existed. I really do need to spend some time reading the manual one of these days :-) |
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March 21st, 2009, 04:26 PM
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PowerDirector 7 is another good editor if you want to choose between storyboards and timeline modes. It's from Cyberlink and they offer a free 30 day trial. |
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March 22nd, 2009, 01:52 AM
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Mike, I would like to request membership of the 'Well I'll Be Damned' club. This is the first time I have EVER read anything about Shuffle. How brilliant is that?!
Any other old hands like to fess up as well?! |
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March 22nd, 2009, 06:10 AM
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"Shuffle" is one of my favorites.
Try using cut and paste on the timeline, too. Try "Paste Insert" from the "Edit" menu. Pretty slick. |
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March 22nd, 2009, 06:19 AM
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Welcome to the club Ian :-)
The reason I never bothered looking for something like this is because, on the very rare occasion that I need to do this, I use a script called "Swap Events" that was written about 4 years ago by John Rofrano. The embarrassing part of all of this is that this feature has existed since at least Vegas 5 :-( |
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March 22nd, 2009, 10:59 AM
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I'm in your debt, Brian. Plus you saved me the membership fee for the 'Well I'll Be Damned Club' by showing that there are even more aspects of Vegas I was unaware of (there's a two function minimum for free entry). Love your website, btw. It's my paying customers that keep me from making punk documentary, damn them . . .
Mike, I was on board since the Sonic Foundry days of Vegas 3 and I still find new stuff - and new stuff that comes in useful, more to the point. And now I have my ShuttlePro (birthday present from the kids last week) and Edward's fantastic Excalibur (non-birthday present from me, c/o my wife's carelessly left lying around credit card) I am finding even more ways of doing stuff. Happy days. |
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March 22nd, 2009, 11:22 AM
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Well, at the risk of breaking the sacred oath of exclusive membership... there's lots more tips at:
Top Ten Vegas Tips Sony Vegas: Real World Tips Ten More Vegas Tips and Tricks Ten New Top Tips for Sony Vegas Thanks for the comments on the website. One of your countrymen, Eric Idle, once said "You can have complete artistic freedom as long as you are willing to make no money at all." I have a day job that pays the bills and health insurance, so I'm free to pursue only the projects I like with my video work. It's a mixed blessing, though, 'cause of course the day job eats up time that could be used for video editing. |
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