I used Vegas 8.1 under Vista Business 64-bit to edit standard def NTSC DV AVI files, and then render them to standard def 4:3 MPEG-2 files.
The result? An abnormally small MPEG-2 file with huge (many minutes) totally black areas. Completely and totally screwed up.
This was reported just a few days ago:
HELP! MY VIDEOS INTERMITTENTLY RENDERING BLANK
I think it has been reported before.
I have reported it to technical support.
This will probably be my final post in this forum. I have signed off a few times in the past, but after over 7,000 posts, I have finally found a reason to do something else. There is no point in dealing with a product that, after all this time after being released, is this fatally flawed.
I just spent a LOT of money to purchase a new computer. One of the main justifications for that computer was to be able to render faster. In order to render at the fastest possible speed, I purchased a license for good 'ol Win XP, but also the hated (by me) Vista 64-bit, just so I could render under 8.1. Well, the good news is that on the artificial HDV Rendertest, the sucker screams and the test completes in fifty-nine seconds, one of the fastest results posted.
The bad news is that for doing actual real world stuff, it fails completely.
My project could not have been any simpler: I captured NTSC DV AVI files from my Sony FX1, put them on the timeline in Vegas 7.0d, did a cuts-only edit, with no fX or anything else -- just cuts. I then re-booted to Vista, opened the project in 8.1 and without doing anything else, rendered it to an MPEG-2 using the DVD Architect template.
Not only did it render slower than on 7.0d (I always benchmark everything), but I ended up with a totally useless MPEG-2 file.
I waited for over a year before moving from 7.0d to 8.x because of all the chatter about problems. Well, they are real, and they haven't been fixed. Vegas 7.0d is a reliable, good program. But, based on this horrendous failure, and on several things I haven't reported, I cannot imagine ever using the 8.x products for anything serious.
I am getting old, and life is too short to deal with this sort of stuff. My money on the new computer has been spent, and I will take my lumps on that, but I'm not going to throw good money (in the form of my time) after bad, and so I will be doing other things from now on.
The result? An abnormally small MPEG-2 file with huge (many minutes) totally black areas. Completely and totally screwed up.
This was reported just a few days ago:
HELP! MY VIDEOS INTERMITTENTLY RENDERING BLANK
I think it has been reported before.
I have reported it to technical support.
This will probably be my final post in this forum. I have signed off a few times in the past, but after over 7,000 posts, I have finally found a reason to do something else. There is no point in dealing with a product that, after all this time after being released, is this fatally flawed.
I just spent a LOT of money to purchase a new computer. One of the main justifications for that computer was to be able to render faster. In order to render at the fastest possible speed, I purchased a license for good 'ol Win XP, but also the hated (by me) Vista 64-bit, just so I could render under 8.1. Well, the good news is that on the artificial HDV Rendertest, the sucker screams and the test completes in fifty-nine seconds, one of the fastest results posted.
The bad news is that for doing actual real world stuff, it fails completely.
My project could not have been any simpler: I captured NTSC DV AVI files from my Sony FX1, put them on the timeline in Vegas 7.0d, did a cuts-only edit, with no fX or anything else -- just cuts. I then re-booted to Vista, opened the project in 8.1 and without doing anything else, rendered it to an MPEG-2 using the DVD Architect template.
Not only did it render slower than on 7.0d (I always benchmark everything), but I ended up with a totally useless MPEG-2 file.
I waited for over a year before moving from 7.0d to 8.x because of all the chatter about problems. Well, they are real, and they haven't been fixed. Vegas 7.0d is a reliable, good program. But, based on this horrendous failure, and on several things I haven't reported, I cannot imagine ever using the 8.x products for anything serious.
I am getting old, and life is too short to deal with this sort of stuff. My money on the new computer has been spent, and I will take my lumps on that, but I'm not going to throw good money (in the form of my time) after bad, and so I will be doing other things from now on.