Recommended Flow For Making Highlight Video

pastvne wrote on 5/20/2010, 5:09 PM
I'm a premiere convert and getting used to Vegas. So far, really enjoy the software. I'm about to embark on my first sports highlight video fast tempo to music. I have footage from our team taken through the season. I'd like to be able to go through all of the video footage and tag the candidate time ranges with words describing the event. For example, offense, tackle or offense receipts, defense, hard-hit... you get the picture. Then, I can arrange the clips in bins and using tags or descriptive file names, go right to the type of video I want based on the back-ground and lock it into the timeline.

My question, is there a way to build a set of assets based on named or tagged regions within a media file or do I need to slice and save the segments I want into the project and just re-arrange them on the time-line?

If someone has a method they use to keep hundreds of different types of clips ranging in size from 1/2 sec to 10 seconds so that it is easier to grab and go with pre-selected and tagged goodies, I'd like to know how it is done. I can't seem to find a way to do this at present.

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TeetimeNC wrote on 5/21/2010, 3:57 AM
I assume you are using Vegas Pro, not Platinum. If so, there are two basic techniques you could consider.

Media Manager would be ideal if you were cataloging each media file. It provides a nice tagging ability that works at the media file level. But since you want to tag multiple individual regions within a media file, load each clip in the Trimmer and assign a region to each clip of interest, using names that coincide with your tags. When finished, use the "Region View" in the Vegas Exploer to sort your regions.

It would be great if Media Manager could work with regions and/or subclips, but the Trimmer and Regions will work ok for what you are doing.

/jerry
xberk wrote on 5/21/2010, 9:16 AM
One fast way might be ---- Create video tracks for Offense, tackle, defense etc..line up all the footage on the main track .. split an event, let's say "offense" -- drag it to the video track labeled Offense .. continue this process so that you eventually have all the events on their own video track. Keep saving this veg file as you go.

Open a second instance of Vegas. You can now copy from the original veg file to the second instance of Vegas and easily pick out the events you want. No labeling necessary. The advantage is that you do not have to create labels and you do not have to decide where the selected event begins and ends. You can copy the event (let's say it's a "hard hit") and then simply drag on each end to extend it or shorten it to get just the part you want in the flow of the final edit. Bang. Bang!

The concept of this workflow is to use multiple instances of Vegas as "timeline" storage bins and copy and paste between instances. This works for many types of compilation sequences.

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Silverglove wrote on 5/26/2010, 6:29 PM
I just did one of these for the end of season for my sons high school team. Wow. I really wish there were some resources for getting these things done. I'm an audio guy and have used Vegas since the inception, so I volunteered to try the video. I mean, how much more difficult can video be than audio? I tell you, I almost suffered from heart failure getting this done, BUT... got a standing ovation after I finally got the HD version rendered (I'll leave that story for another time). I used a plethora of both stills and video images and really used no rhyme or reason as far as organization. I did although have a plan and cut it similar to a music video. Much easier to do that than trying to get the music to fit the video. Mine turned out very well, if you have any questions... please ask. I wish there was a forum for just football highlight videos when I was putting this together

John