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Douglas Spotted Eagle is a recognized world leader in the Vegas product knowledgebase. He has authored numerous articles for Vegas and its sister applications. He also hosts two web sites for users of Vegas and related products and contributes to Videography, Studio, Parachutist, and Worship Video among other publications.
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Vegas 4.0 is an application that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform and does not perform well on Macintosh PC emulators due to the intensive processor load translation requirements, so only PC computers are referred to in this book. Read the first page
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Vegas 4.0 is an application that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform and does not perform well on Macintosh PC emulators due to the intensive processor load translation requirements, so only PC computers are referred to in this book. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I'm familiar with the use computers in general and I've done some video editing of different NLE platforms. I've never tried Vegas and hoped this "higly acclaimed" book could help me out.
This book is written by a probably excellent producer, but not a very good author. Douglas Spotted Eagle displays in-depth knowledge of the area, but fails to present this in a structured manner. Frustrating to read, a typical first-book-on-a-newly-launched-software-package - launched way to early in my opinion.
The included CD is a laugh, the book refers several times to objects no available on the included CD and a couple of the excercises are so poorly described they are of no value. (A typical example of this is the star field example p. 271. Nothing works after following the instruction 100% and the authors final file, positerock.veg, is not on the CD...) The result is simple, after a while you don't bother to try the excercises described in the book. Indeed, after a while you probably do as I did, put down the book and start to explore Vegas by yourself - maybe using the book as reference, since the book does have a couple of good tips from an experienced producer and a vegas user.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Douglas Spotted Eagle is well known and respected in his field, but unforunately this book is not going to do a great deal to enhance his reputation.
There are two problems with this book: Firstly the english is poor making some of the decriptions difficult to follow and to read.Secondly its really not all that clear what the book is trying to achieve. Is it for beginners experts or who, is for video or audio ? Vegas is the best NLE on the market and is crying out for book that really shows you how to make the best of this excellent and slightly unconventional tool.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By John Nuttall
Format:Paperback
An opportunity missed - the book is largely descriptive - it tells you what the menu items(etc) do, but it would have been far better to do some practical stuff - like take clip 1 on the CD, import it to the timetime, then insert clip 2.... add a transition. The CD is simply an after-thought. We are well into the book before any reference is made to anything on the CD.
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Reviewer: John Quinn (see more about me) from Glasnevin, Dublin Ireland
This is a great book for getting an overview of Vegas 4. Its a great product, and like most pro. Read more
This is a great book for getting an overview of Vegas 4. Its a great product, and like most pro. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2003 by John Quinn
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excellent book by the Guru
Have some experience with Vegas, having used it for a few weddings / docus etc, so not a complete newb. Read more
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