评论:Magix Vegas Pro 15

This article continues our series of looks at alternative nonlinear editors from the perspective of a longtime Premiere Pro editor. In this article and video we’ll explore Vegas Pro 15 from MAGIX. 你可能很熟悉 拉斯维加斯是索尼的产品过去是这样的. But it’s now owned and developed by the MAGIX Corporation out of Germany.

Magix Vegas Pro, like its Sony predecessor, is a Windows-only product. 我在一台装有戴尔Canvas的Windows笔记本电脑上进行了测试, 使用笔和图腾的27英寸触摸显示器, 加上手指. 我也有一个38英寸的超宽曲面显示器(下面的图1). 我将在曲面显示器上进行大部分编辑工作. Vegas has some other windows like effects that I might want to manipulate with the pen, 这就是画布会派上用场的地方. 稍后会详细介绍.

图1. 我的测试设置. 单击图像以查看其全尺寸.

Vegas Pro 15是最新的版本. 有三种不同的选择. You have Vegas Pro Edit, Vegas Pro, and the Vegas Pro Suite (下面的图2). The pricing is $400 for Vegas Pro Edit, $599 for Vegas Pro, and then the Vegas Pro Suite is $799. The differences among those are basically the add-ons that you get. 大多数编辑器都可以很好地使用Pro Edit.

图2. 拉斯维加斯的选项

主界面

图3(下面) 显示主Vegas界面. 这很简单. 这个界面实际上首先提醒了我一点 达芬奇解决. You have your clips on the left, and then you have your program monitor on the right. 维加斯本身没有信号源监视器, like the one in Premiere Pro where you double-click on a file and it brings it up in the window that's usually on the left, and then your program or your timeline view is on the right usually.

图3. 主Vegas UI. 单击图像以查看其全尺寸.

在拉斯维加斯，你有一个视频预览，你有一个修剪器. The trimmer can be used in a couple of different ways, so it's more than just a source monitor. 但我喜欢修剪视图(下面的图4), because you can actually scroll your mouse over it and scrub the clip without clicking anything. 一条垂直线, or a timeline marker shows you where you are in the clip proportionally from beginning to end. 它会向你展示这段视频中发生了什么. And when your mouse goes away from it, it just goes back to the beginning.

图4. 调整视图

In the bar below the main window in 调整视图 you can choose your in and out points, which are also displayed with the lighter shaded area in the center. 如果你点一下，它就去掉了. And then I can adjust those in and out points again to bring those back to whatever I need.

你可以做的另一件事是创建子剪辑, 哪个会在你的文件夹中生成一个新的子剪辑. Or you can simply choose to drop whatever it is on your timeline.

测试项目

As in previous installments in this series (see the 相关文章 at the bottom of this page), I'm doing the exact same edit as close I can in each one of these pieces of software so that I have the closest apples-to-apples comparison of how it is to edit in any of these applications.

我从Premiere Pro导出了我的EDL, which is my original edit that I've been basing all my other edits on. 首先，我尝试使用Premiere Pro中的常规EDL文件. It did not work, so then I actually exported a Final Cut Pro EDL, and that worked like a charm. 所以我把它带了进来——每个片段，所有的音乐，还有淡出. 所有东西都在里面. It did not import some after-market plug-ins that I have in Premiere Pro that are not standard. It replaced it with a closest approximation, which is basically just a fade.

总之, Vegas did a pretty good job of bringing in an edit from another application into this one. So I'm not really going to get into the actual editing of a project. But I do want to show you how simple it is to make some of the changes. 首先，我喜欢时间轴上的洗涤器. If you scrub where the timecode is, you'll notice that it optionally does an audio and video scrub. 有些人喜欢搓澡, 他们喜欢能够听到正在发生的事情, 不只是看看发生了什么. 如果你想快速跳到某一点, 你可以在没有音频的情况下做手术, 或者只需点击快速移动标记. If you click and drag in an area in the timeline, it actually creates in and out points. So you can quickly make a selection for an in and out point just like that.