• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 9/11/2007

  Vegas Pro & Vista
  First report after a full day of editing: it seems fine. And if your system can handle 32-bit color...ack...go for it. The gain and contrast is worth it. Heck, edit without, and turn it on to render if you have to. However, annoying niggly thing:
• Scripting

  2 answers, most recent on 1/16/2008

  What's new in Vegas Pro 8 (scripting)
  The Vegas Pro 8 Script Developers kit is available and contains updated API documentation, FAQ, and sample code. Download: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=774 For a brief (or maybe not so brief ;-) introduction, have a
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 9/1/2007

  RE: VASST HDV Rendertest in Vegas 8 Pro
  The setting in Vegas says it all really. It talks about how many threads. The number of threads spewed out should be relative to the project dimensions and the content itself. Not even slightly approaching being limited to 1,2 or 4 threads. Perhaps
• Video

  No answers, created on 8/22/2007

  Adding RAID to upgraded edit workstation
  I am upgrading my edit workstation, which runs Vegas 7 on Windows 2000 Pro. The new motherboard is an Intel D975XBX2 with a quad core Q6600 CPU and 2GB RAM, which has onboard SATA and RAID. The old system had a 160GB boot drive, a 250GB video drive
• Video

  29 answers, most recent on 8/13/2007

  Howard Stringer - Future of Sony Vegas
  Can't imagine this would really be read by Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, but if I could speak to him, this is what I would say: Sony is missing, but can still seize, an amazing opportunity with your Sony Vegas and other creative software. You
• Video

  37 answers, most recent on 8/4/2007

  RE: Red Giant drops Vegas Magic Bullet - write now!
  CS2 runs ok on XP64 as long as you don't need to burn anything to DVD... At least that has been my experience Vegas uses 1/3 the resources during a render than PPro does. While rendering out a straight AVI, PPro uses 60% CPU utilization - yet eats
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 7/22/2007

  RE: Red screen of death, black frame, lip sync
  Hello Douglas Spotted Eagle! It feels good to get a response from one of the Vegas Gurus! My company switched from Premiere Pro 1.5 to Vegas almost four months ago (three workstations). We have produced over twenty projects successfully so far,
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 7/22/2007

  RE: Red screen of death, black frame, lip sync
  Hello Douglas Spotted Eagle! It feels good to get a response from one of the Vegas Gurus! My company switched from Premiere Pro 1.5 to Vegas almost four months ago (three workstations). We have produced over twenty projects successfully so far,
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 7/22/2007

  Red screen of death, black frame, lip sync
  Hello All, This is my first post on this forum. My company (three Vegas workstations) has dealt with the same issues since switching from Premiere Pro to Vegas 7 three months ago. My background is in broadcast (ABC) where I learned all I could from
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  46 answers, most recent on 7/10/2007

  RE: VMS: Not as good as it should be
  Give me a break, doctor. Stop thinking that you know everything about me just because Vegas works FOR YOU. I DID try Pinnacle, Premiere and Ulead before I bought Vegas. Guess what, all worked with scene detection except Vegas. I am not going to
• Video

  83 answers, most recent on 4/23/2007

  OT: Apple delivers...how about Sony?
  So it looks like two of the major four NLEs have excellent offerings (Apple and Adobe.) Avid has their even here in a bit to tout whatever they are bringing to the editing world. Which leaves Sony as the last major NLE to yet announce anything
• Video

  21 answers, most recent on 2/3/2007

  RE: Filters to smooth grainy gain noise?
  OOOkay ... I'm looking at the footage now, first in Vegas and then in Virtualdub. When you said 8mm, I didn't realize you meant 8mm film. As you know, I own a Workprinter and do 8mm, Super8 and 16mm transfers. First let's talk about the capture.
• Video

  75 answers, most recent on 1/29/2007

  RE: Vista implications for pro audio and video
  Good discussion, guys. I'd like to address the responses to my post. Chienworks, said: 1, we are griping because this "nonsense" can affect honest and ethical computer users who aren't even trying to use protected content. Take a look at some of
• Video

  31 answers, most recent on 10/12/2006

  RE: Audio Plug-Ins
  Like many things Pro Tools didn't get to be an industry standard without some fire behind the smoke. Double blind tests reveal it's mixing algorithms sound better than Vegas but then again Vegas's video engines seems to produce cleaner output than
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  11 answers, most recent on 11/29/2006

  DV Video Capture Utility
  This is my first post, but I have been an active consumer of the info on this forum for some time now. Given that I have received lots of help from others, I felt I needed to contribute and offer my opinion on the vidcap.exe utility that comes with
• Audio

  8 answers, most recent on 9/16/2006

  RE: Appreciation for products
  It's great to get this perspective from someone with a background that stretches back to that era of innovation which seems so far removed from how we do everything now and yet still influences our production techniques! When I learned to edit tape
• Video

  No answers, created on 8/30/2006

  Vegas mentioned in c/net story
  YouTube directors ready for postproduction By Greg Sandoval http://news.com.com/YouTube+directors+ready+for+postproduction/2100-1025_3-6110776.html Story last modified Wed Aug 30 04:56:10 PDT 2006 Matt Harding had just finished recording himself
• Video

  23 answers, most recent on 7/26/2006

  RE: New HD Camera Rumors???
  From what I am picking up on the new model isn't enough for a lot of existing owners to pop out the money for a new one. However, as I mentioned before, the model seems to just add things that people have been requesting. So it is sort of a toss up
• Video

  33 answers, most recent on 6/26/2006

  RE: Vegas on the MacBook Pro...
  is that the same CD as I used to install WinXP on my Intel PC?? Or is it a special version to be used on Macs? You can't use the same CD, as it's licensed only for one computer. The Activation will stop you, unless you take steps to become a
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 5/22/2006

  RE: Digital Fusion 5, wow!
  There are many ratings on the dynamic range of film, usually 14-18 stops (although I think the latter is way over the top and even the first needs some skill to truly use), depending on the film stock of course. The dynamic range of HD is still
• Video

  42 answers, most recent on 5/2/2006

  RE: OTish: What/Who is Vegas' Market?
  Great thread idea! - here goes my .000002 In my case it's corporate/broadcast/indie film work. Most of it done with HDV. My sense is Vegas' market is starting to grow up a bit. Back when the DVX was the shizzle Vegas was really a world beater -
• Video

  64 answers, most recent on 2/11/2006

  RE: Inconsistent Vegas!
  I have a similar situation that sometimes occurrs with Vegas 6c on my laptop (P2 with XP Pro sp2). There is one particular wmv file that gives me fits whenever it is loaded into a timeline. It shows to be encoded with Microsoft MPEG-4 video codec
• Video

  43 answers, most recent on 2/2/2006

  RE: Is there an update coming soon?
  Spot, Why would offloading rendering to the GPU make it a bigger pig on the processor? Wouldn't the CPU be free to coast while the GPU is doing the work? What is the difference in multicam speed between Vegas and PP? In both cases you press a
• Video

  18 answers, most recent on 1/23/2006

  RE: If I hadn't seen it for myself...
  The Acrobat reader is a real gem, just how much crud does one need to load to read a PDF Sounds like you haven't downloaded the V7 reader which is about 10x faster. At least. They got it finally, perhaps after seeing other people create patches to