VPX - Just sayin...

Craigster wrote on 4/6/2020, 3:02 AM

So, I was never the film major type. I'm a musician, a songwriter, arranger. A worship pastor. I've become an audio engineer of sorts. Video, that scared me. I hoped I could leave that to... other guys.

So, I find myself in this Covid-19 era working daily on video material. Essentially producing broadcasts and now worship videos for our Sunday streaming. And I'm using Video Pro X. I've been using it here and there since V.2.5. But, now, I'm seriously, really USING it!

And I just have to say: WOW!

It's pretty incredible what this program can do, and how easily it does it.

I experimented with Final Cut Pro a couple of years ago (and maybe I should give it another shot). But to me, it felt completely unintuitive. I kept wondering: Why don't they just do it like VPX and use the same terminology?

I maybe use 10% of the features, but they WORK. And I get work done effectively and quickly. As a 20+ year Samplitude user, this program just lays out well for me and just feels familiar and straightforward. Grateful for this program and for the current rendition.

Curious about things other than bug reports (I've had no show-stoppers or crashes in the past 6 months; successfully using it on 2 custom-built PCs.).

Specifically: What do others love about this program? What sets this apart from other programs for you? And what features do you find yourself using and relying on?

Comments

browj2 wrote on 4/7/2020, 9:23 PM

@Craigster

Good, uplifting post!

Some of the great things about VPX are also in Movie Edit Pro. Some of the following features are in many other products, but not all in the same product.

Tracks are just there, no need to create them;
No need to create special tracks for different purposes;
Multiple timelines/movies within a project;
The lowest track number is the background, as it should be. Track 1 is on the bottom and you overlay by putting objects/titles on higher numbered tracks. Other programs go the other way round and you have to insert tracks above track 1 all of the time and you quickly lose track of where the background is;
VPX allows for nesting - one movie can be embedded into another one, no need to open a different project to edit the nested video;
VPX - instruments - Vectorscope, Waveform Monitor, RGB Parade, Histogram;
VPX - overall and RGB curves - just wish the curves could be keyframed;
Audio handling capability - most users know very little about the extent of this;
Able to create certain effects curves on audio objects, especially the volume curve (cannot be done in Vegas);
Separate object and track volume curves;
Link to Xara for creating static and graphical overlays and masks - only very high-end products have something like this;
Copy selected effects/paste effects;
VPX - Project Folder;
VPX - Multiple languages for DVD's/BR's;
VPX - separate Preview and Source Monitors;
Audio cleaning with other Magix products, like Samplitude and SF Audio Cleaning Lab and others;
VPX - Audio - EBU128 Normalization;
Audio Ducking/Damping
L- and J- cuts for audio are very simple to do
Effects - Size/Position with keyframing - relatively easy to do and easy to see what has been done
Track and object colours;
Titling - simple, powerful, effective
VPX 3D Titles with Xara 3D Maker

Enough?

John CB

Craigster wrote on 4/8/2020, 3:38 PM

Yes!

I Love from your list:

1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 22.

Some of these others, I need to pursue.

Craig