TABLE OF CONTENTS Several third-party manufacturers have stepped up to Vegas and have written plug-ins for the product. The tools that come with Vegas provide a wide variety of additional expressions and emotions for editors in Vegas; however, these plug-ins give editors far more arrows for their bows, as well as a feel that the Vegas plug-ins don t come with. Pixelan Software, BorisFX, Red Giant, RM Tools, Panopticum, and DebugMode have released powerful new tools for Vegas, and demos of some of these products are found on the DVD in the back of this book.
Pixelan, long famous for their plug-ins for Avid, Adobe, Pinnacle, Media 100, Ulead, and other fine editing products, created the SpiceMASTER plug-in several years ago. Often mistakenly thought to be just a transition tool, this plug-in provides tremendous power to users. This tool has 500 BMPs alone that can be used as backgrounds, foregrounds, masks, and more. Combine this feature with other tools, and all of a sudden, there are millions of possibilities.
Installing SpiceMASTER takes only a few minutes. Five hundred Spices provide the backbone of how images are manipulated, and the Spices are automatically installed to a folder that you can find quickly and easily. When working with Vegas and DV, load only the DV/720 x 480 Spices (for NTSC) and 720 x 576 (for PAL), as the other sizes will...
