• Video

  85 answers, most recent on 5/13/2013

  RE: Adobe will be Cloud only!
  The cost for anyone with a CS3 or later license is $29.90 / month and that's for everything. Oddly enough Adobe claim the move is based on the unexpected success of their existing cloud based offering which has 500,000 subscribers. Personally even
• Video

  10 answers, most recent on 4/25/2013

  RE: Preview RAM and Stills Rendering
  The question is about Preview RAM AND Max number of rendering threads together. For the last couple of years some users here have tried several combinations of these 2 settings every time a new Vegas version or upgrade was released - and
• Video

  26 answers, most recent on 4/19/2013

  RE: This can't be right - 14% CPU utilization render
  I do a lot of AVID DNxHD 220Mbps renders and it is the key reason we have all source footage on one fast (hardware) RAID and render all target footage to another fast RAID. Whenever I recommend folks use a RAID if they are serious about video
• Video

  70 answers, most recent on 4/25/2013

  RE: OT: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops
  I'd boil it down to a few points: 1. People aren't spending as much overall, so personal PCs aren't selling as well. 2. Unemployment is up, so companies have a surplus of PCs (and cubicles) that aren't in use. 3. There were too many desktops and
• Video

  70 answers, most recent on 4/25/2013

  RE: OT: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops
  Heck, even my techno-uninterested parents have a PC, a laptop, and an iPad. They don't see them as computers at all, but merely additional useful appliances. The single biggest thing they do with them, google searching, works just the same on all
• Video

  33 answers, most recent on 4/4/2013

  RE: Quick V12 render test on new i7 3770 system
  QuickSync is fixed function hardware Intel started incorporating into their integrated graphics starting with Sandy Bridge (2600k, etc.. HD3000/2500 graphics). Ivy Bridge (3770k) upgraded HD graphics to HD4000/2500 (faster rendering). Reviews
• Video

  35 answers, most recent on 4/10/2013

  RE: Sony Vegas for Mac
  With Sony releasing Sound Forge Pro for Mac, I see no reason why they wouldn't release Vegas soon. I was pretty shocked to see when they released the Sound Forge for Mac. I've had it with Windows. Between unstable hardware, to software, and Windows
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  2 answers, most recent on 4/1/2013

  RE: GPU Section Criteria
  It is actually very difficult to estimate GPU performance for a given card in the context of video encoding. There are some many variables, including internal GPU architecture, drivers and software implementation and so on. Few months ago I spent
• Video

  11 answers, most recent on 4/3/2013

  RE: Working systems
  My response related to the numbers. 1) I had no intention to brag about by system. The intention was to list a system that is stable and utilizes GPU acceleration as it is intented. If the issue as you say is with workflow, then this is the wrong
• Video

  18 answers, most recent on 3/30/2013

  RE: Praise for version 12
  Being a long time user of VP8, I had used that extensively with little to no issues and was happy. A few years later, a work project required some video presentations, so I checked to see how VP had progressed. I saw that VP11 touted GPU
• Video

  26 answers, most recent on 6/12/2013

  RE: Titan with CUDA fails on vegas Pro 12
  Sorry, I can't directly help you but something here smells similar to what has happend to me on the AMD side of things with the MC AVC encoder. I upgraded my video card from a 5850 to a 7950 and MC AVC OpenCL no longer thinks OpenCL is available
• Video

  65 answers, most recent on 7/18/2013

  RE: Vegas: never again
  Sebaz: I am a bit late to this thread but I am one of the rather many users that have almost no issues with VP since version 7. I say almost as there are bugs in the software but I have not had any random crashes and I am currently working with
• Video

  65 answers, most recent on 7/18/2013

  RE: Vegas: never again
  Wow! That really is a rough deal you had there. My experiences are quite the opposite. I build my own PCs and get to choose the hardware... Particularly the RAM I use. My latest PC. A simple i3 system with high quality RAM and on-board intel Video
• Video

  65 answers, most recent on 7/18/2013

  RE: Vegas: never again
  "SOMETHING is causing some people all this grief while others report no issues at all." See, to me that's the main proof that Vegas is very poorly coded software, or code that got worse with time, since apparently it used to be a very stable
• Video

  14 answers, most recent on 3/15/2013

  RE: New Software Speculation
  I for one would like to see an OSX version of Vegas Pro for a variety of reasons... 1) This would expand the customer base of VVPro which will hopefully extend the lifetime of VVPro for both Win & Mac users... I know a lot of people who edit
• Video

  11 answers, most recent on 3/11/2013

  AMD cards and Vegas 12
  Hi All, I have a question regarding video cards. I am running Vegas Pro 12 on a machine which should be flying (Intel (R) Core i7 3930k CPU @ 3.20GHZ, 16GB Ram). In addition, I have several plug ins (Neat video, Boris FX and Newblue) But... my
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  2 answers, most recent on 1/29/2013

  RE: Preview choppy-need to upgrade something?But what?
  I agree that you're at the lower end of hardware needs for high-def video. And you won't be able to run Movie Studio 12 on an XP machine. Although, on a dual-core system, upgraded to 4 gigs of RAM , you may be able to do some basic editing of that
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 2/10/2013

  Vegas 12 Crashes On AMD Vishera
  I recently upgraded one of my machines to an AMD 8350 Vishera 8 Core processor from an AMD 1090T 6 Core processor on the same AM3+ motherboard. Tonight was the first time I tried rendering Vegas projects on it. Very basic stuff like colors bars
• Video

  21 answers, most recent on 1/23/2013

  RE: OT: 80% of Big Business still runs XP!
  For business there is another option that can be very appealing. Many question whether having a full-blown PC with O/S and applications installed locally makes any sense. Many organizations are considering thin-clients, where the applications run on
• Video

  20 answers, most recent on 1/19/2013

  RE: OT: Win8 Pro upgrade jumps to $200 on February 1st
  Danny... re the usb 3 driver. That seems highly suspect to me. I have several installs of w8 and I have 3 different usb 3 chipsets, all are recognized and work without any drivers. And the Intel driver to boot? Both Renesas and etron chipsets work
• Video

  20 answers, most recent on 1/19/2013

  RE: OT: Win8 Pro upgrade jumps to $200 on February 1st
  > "...the introductory online upgrade price is currently $40 but will jump to $200 on February 1st." I guess Microsoft doesn't plan to sell any more copies of Windows 8 to existing customers after Feb 1st because you would have to be crazy to
• Video

  47 answers, most recent on 1/23/2013

  RE: Win 7 or Win 8?
  > "... but Win 8 is substantially cheaper (why??)." Not sure. Could be because it's such a drastic change that it needs to be cheap to entice customers? Could be that MS is just trying to make their numbers by making it cheaper? Could be because
• Video

  41 answers, most recent on 1/14/2013

  RE: OT: Hate 8 UI ?
  I get that Microsoft is trying is going for convergence from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone as far as operating system and applications. And I believe from a hardware perspective we will be there in under two years. The smaller devices must
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  4 answers, most recent on 12/31/2012

  RE: XP sp3 and V12
  You might still be able to avail of the cheap upgrade from XP to Windows 8 Pro (even if you don't have the hardware yet): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/windows/buy