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I can highly recommend this and any other product by Douglas Spotted Eagle to learn Vegas digital video and audio editing program. This program is the easiest professional program to learn. I am upgraded to V6 now, but what you learn about V5 applies to V6, this is very highly recommended
I have to disagree with the other review. I do not think that it lives up to its promise.
The idea of sticking a Flour bulb in a scoop light is not my idea of a $100 video.
Where the video really lacks is that it promises that if you go to the website that plans are available for the various lights he describes and sheet metal assys are available for purchase. The fact is there are no plans or sheet metal assys available and so this video is primarily a how to guide to assy light parts that are unavailable. In addition I think the lack of CRI discussion inexcusable for this subject. If the promised sheetmetal assys and plans were available, I would rate this video alot higher, but then the critism would be centered on the cost, since by the time you buy plans or have a sheet metal shop build the assy or buy from the assy from him, this is alot of dough so the question if you would save money by doing yourself is itself questionable. The quality of production on the video is good and the guy has good ideas, but at this point, you are buying an DIY assy video for products that do not exist and consider the commercial equivelent lights are available around $400 and by the time you buy the video and the currently non existant parts, you may have that in construction.
In this video he says that black wire are the common and the white is the hot wire. This is not right, I checked this with a licensed electrician and he said according to the national electrical code that black is the hot wire. This is a great idea, but you cannot build the light fixtures he describes as there are no plans and finding parts are difficult.
You get some good information from this video - the problem is that it is the only video I know of on slip form construction, but this guy may mean well, but the presentation is painful to watch. The first half has lots of zoom in zoom out zoom in zoom out, not only really bad technique, it gives you a headache and detracts from the presentation. Then the sound track with a really bad guitar player, with a way out of tune guitar just dinking around playing some chords is very distracting, this is fine for your family video, then it plays again at the end.
I feel that this video should never have been released, it is not professional and I would think it a good buy at the dollar store, then he enunciates every little bit of each word as if he is on drugs obviously reading from a script. The video is very strange when all these things are considered, on the other hand if you can suffer the amateur video, then you will see a garage being slip formed.
There is no question in my mind that he should taken his footage to a professional and gotten someone that can speak properly and re edit this video.
If you need to see the process of slip forming done, I can recommend this to you,
I have to disagree with the other reviewer, I am a member of a Vegas Video editors group that meets monthly and I have watched this video set and also the Vasst set as well.
Of all the Vegas video instruction, I have to give the edge to this set, I think it is easy to understand, yet every time I watch it I learn something. I am sorry the other reviewer didn't enjoy it, but this gets my highest recommendation and being familiar with the competition is just a scosh better.
