When you shoot a project with multiple cameras and import it into the project, you can switch and edit between camera shots with the click of a mouse. One feature of interest (event videographers, take note) is the multicam feature. Perfect for cool, futuristic, sci-fi projects. The Sony Film Effects creates the look of old film, and the TV Simulator gives your video the appearance of a television that is being filmed by a video camera.
You can also apply effects to the entire track.Īlong with the usual slew of effects and color-correction tools, there are a few we’ve seen before that are fan favorites. Using the effects tool affects only that clip. Each video clip contains a pan-and-zoom tool, as well as an effects tool. Right away, we noticed that editing is quick and easy, with little need to change tools. OK, let’s get to the editing.ĭropping video onto the timeline is as simple as you would expect: just drag and drop it in. You can be as basic or advanced as you need to be. The controls and options in the video capture window include video type (DV or HDV), batch capturing and scene detection. It’s easy to use and recognized our media source right away. We captured a few minutes of video, using the video capture interface. And you should keep a fair amount of room on your hard drive for video storage. The minimum system requirements say you need at least a 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM. We tested the program on a Dell XPS system with a 3.0GHz Dual Pentium processor.
Other than that, the appearance is very much like previous versions.
With everything in place, we opened the program and noticed right away the location of the timeline now defaults to the bottom of the screen, which differs from earlier versions of Sony Vegas. Both updates took only a couple of minutes to run. We also updated DVD Architect to 4.5a (72.1MB download). Based on past experience, we know that keeping the program updated is very important. Once the installation was complete, we were quickly informed that there is an update (8.0a, 113MB download). Opening up the blue box, we pulled out the paperwork and got straight to the main contents. Sound too good to be true? Let’s open it up and find out. Plus, it comes packed with a high-quality DVD authoring program, as well as an AC-3 surround-sound encoder. Sony’s newest version of its pro-line editing suite offers professional quality, in-depth controls and an intuitive design. Videomaker’s Best Video Editing Software of 2007.
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