Graphics

Lightfoot wrote on 11/29/2012, 6:25 AM
I need suggestions on graphics. Is there something that works better than the new blue txt. I would like to be able to work within Vegas pro 12. But not opposed to a standalone program. I am now doing TV production and I need to take my graphics to the next level. What are you guys using? Previously work with New Blue in Vegas Pro 11 and it is very unstable.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/29/2012, 6:54 AM
Boris.

Or learned a 3D app and make your own.
vtxrocketeer wrote on 11/29/2012, 8:09 AM
For anything other than plain vanilla text, I use Cinema 4D for graphics, animation, and slick titles. (Often I'll start in Adobe Ilustrator, but the final graphic is from Cinema, possibly with some treatment in Photoshop, too.) It's a professional 3D modeling and animation application, with a price tag to boot. But it will just blow your socks off. Sort of like taking an F-15 to the grocery store for shopping, but also useful for complex aerial stunts and blowing up small countries. Learning curve? Bring good boots and your rapelling equipment. You can be up and running pretty quickly, however, with the basics and some time with excellent tutorials.

Boris Continuum Complete, also in my stable, is an awesome and far less costly alternative, which is a plugin to Vegas. It can generate and manipulate 3D titles and objects. Learning curve will have you hardly break a sweat.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/29/2012, 12:25 PM
In addition to Boris Continuum Complete for 3D titles, Boris Graffiti is very good for 2D titles. You can also use Boris Match Move from BCC8 to have your titles move within a scene which is a very popular look on TV these days.

Here is a tutorial I made for Boris TV that shows BCC 3D Text with BCC Match Move:

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~jr
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/29/2012, 2:30 PM
While I prefer to use a true 3D program, Element 3D in AE has been quite good, and Boris also makes a decent quality titler as well, but nothing really beats a true 3D renderer depending on what you're wanting to do. I make motion graphics 2D and 3D quite regularly for various projects and you can almost always tell, but Element 3D from Video Co-Pilot has been the best tool I've managed to use outside of a full 3D application. It's sub $200 but that's assuming you have AE and you're using 12 to push your sequence to AE, and then importing the prproj. sequence and placing your titles, etc... it's not a bad back and forth, just push out an img seq and import that into Vegas and you can overlay right where it belongs. It sounds a little complicated, but once you get used to it, it's really quite fast, not quite as nice as right in Vegas, but you can just do all your titles after your content is edited and push the whole seq to AE and then just mute all the clips and only render the text segments.

Dave
Tech Diver wrote on 11/29/2012, 2:50 PM
If you don't mind the price, Boris Red is a true 3D compositor that is the combination of BCC and Grafitti. It is my "Swiss army knife" of text/effect tools and I recommend it highly.

Peter