Adobe HDV codec vs Vegas's and why is their's free?

shogo wrote on 3/30/2005, 11:05 PM

Just wondering why Adobe gives their HDV plugin for free, maybe it is inferior but looking at it it seems comparable to what Vegas uses. I am not complaining or anything I have no problem spending the money but just trying to figure out how Adobe is giving it as a free plugin and why Vegas does not? Maybe it will be built in for free in Ver 6 and I can save my self the money (crossing fingers)

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shogo wrote on 3/30/2005, 11:12 PM

I just realized they are from the same company Cineform. Are there differences between the two?

Yoyodyne wrote on 3/30/2005, 11:17 PM

Good question - I'm real curious to see how this plays out after NAB...

Yoyodyne wrote on 3/30/2005, 11:20 PM

Oh - to answer your second question. Vegas "uses" connect HD - it's basically a stand alone application that captures and converts to the Cineform codec - The capture and convert on the fly has not worked for me -but it's transcode has. the Cineform Codec looks good but on my oldish p4 2.4 I'm only getting about 10 frames per second playback - not so good.

The Adobe version works as a plug in to Premiere - I have not used it but have heard mixed results...

farss wrote on 3/31/2005, 1:07 PM

And the Adobe version is NOT free, it's way more exepnsive than the one for Vegas. Premiere does sort of come with same capacity to handle HDV, so far we've had no luck with it at all. Mind you we got it for free when we bought a Sony laptop.
Bob.

p@mast3rs wrote on 3/31/2005, 6:05 PM

I have used the Adobe free plugin and its ok but nothing spectacular. I do it a totally different way now without Cineform and so far its working pretty good.