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Tutorial: By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Creating Effective Reflections in Sony Vegas Pro
Give titles and logos more pizzazz by adding a reflection

Here's how to add a mirror reflection that makes your titles and logos stand out. It's quick and easy inside Sony Vegas Pro and it looks great. Read More

One powerful reason to choose Sony Vegas as your NLE is how its myriad of tools let you to accomplish so many tasks directly inside the program. I?d say that 90% of the time there is no need to employ other software. For example, a client gives you their logo graphic to place in a video project. Unfortunately, this logo has a white background instead of a transparent one and you?d like to key it over video. But the white is in the way. Read More

Tutorial: By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Looking Good with Sony Vegas

People want to look their best on camera. Usually they?d like a little smoothing out of facial features and hiding some minor imperfections. I turn to the Sony Vegas third-party Pixelan CreativEase BlurPro plug-in which includes some great preset effects ready for tweaking. The CE effects also work with other NLEs. Read More

Tutorial: By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Placing Video Inside a Title with Sony Vegas

Is your titling with Sony Vegas a bit blasé these days? Here?s a technique that can bring some pizzazz to otherwise bland white letters on a background. Consider adding motion that appears inside the letters and compositing that over another video. That?s a powerful look that every Sony Vegas user should know how to do. Read More

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Fixing Incorrect White Balance using Sony Vegas

Sometimes it seems there are no limits to what you can do in post-production. The tools in your typical NLE are amazing. Add in the bevy of third-party plug-ins and, well, let's just say it's a terrific time to be producing video content destined for DVDs, TV, the Web, and more. For this tutorial, I?m using the Five Bikers.avi file that is on the media DVD disc included with the Sony Creative Software training book, Digital Video and Audio Production. For the newbie Vegas user, this resource is invaluable. Read More

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Hiding Unwanted Elements Using Sony Vegas

No matter how diligent you are during production, sometimes a product, face, name, logo, or other unwanted element gets on your recording. And since you need the shot, you are faced with trying to disguise or eliminate it. Adding pixilation or blur to the offending area is the typical approach. Read More

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