I have heard a *rumor* that Vegas Pro 9 would be out 1Q 2009.

Again, just a rumor, so take it as that.

I'd love for it to be out sooner, I have Vegas 7 now.

Sorry, but Pro 8 was released in SEPTEMBER of last year.
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Thanks Ed. I didn't realize that.

Hate buying this version. Maybe the next one will have less bugs. Figured I'd wait.

John

Well I am not an expert with Vegas by any means, but am learning more & more every day (mainly thanks to Gary's videos), however I was quite pleased to see how well version 8c handled my AVCHD files.

I just received my new Sony SR11 camcorder yesterday, and we recorded a few test clips. I hooked the unit up to my PC, the clips downloaded automatically, I imported them into Vegas, put them on the time line and was able to edit them without difficulty. Then I rendered them to an MPEG-2 without difficultly. So thus far I haven't seen the issues with AVCHD files that folks have been talking about with the earlier versions. So while I haven't experimented in-depth with AVCHD clips yet, I am happy to see things work so well out of the gate. Obviously there may be other bugs that people are complaining about, but I haven't run into those yet while using the software for my purposes.

That leads me to wonder though--does SCS offer the same upgrade price for the last couple versions, or is there a different upgrade price structure dependent on the version you are running? Version 8 is my first Vegas product so I am unfamiliar with the upgrade policies.

TB

Glad to hear AVCHD is working well for you tcbetka. I have Vegas 7 and it's pretty choppy, I've been converting them to mpg2.

I'll probably do that until Vegas 9 comes out and see how it handles it before getting Upshift. (Upshift does do a great job though, I have the trial version)

Well, I am not so sure how well it will *continue* to work!

I just went and read a couple of the other threads about the trouble people have been having, and I am not so sure I have pushed it hard enough to manifest any problems that might be there. I have a quad core Intel CPU, which seems to be implicated in some troubles--so I would expect there to be some problems, if indeed there are issues with v8c.

Not that this means anything, but I *only* run this particular PC as a media processing machine, with XP 32-bit. It was built for only that purpose, and it never goes on the internet. Thus there is no anti-virus software running, and the PC is optimized for audio work. I went to this website:

http://www.audioforums.com/resources/windows-xp-optimization.html

...and have done just about all the tips mentioned there. I have also installed RightMark CPU utility so I can watch the usage of each core, and temperatures as well. It does remarkably well.

But when I rendered those clips today, there was only about 4 minutes of footage--shot in 1920x1080i at the highest resolution (16Mbps) on my camera. I edited it and rendered it to MPEG-2 without difficulty, but haven't yet tried to burn a DVD in DVDA. Maybe tomorrow I will shoot 15-20 minutes of AVCHD video, edit it and render to MPEG-2 and then burn a DVD and try it on the TV. Then I'll report back. Maybe I'll have a problem with it...who knows?

But I was fully prepared to buy UpShift and transcode to some other format and then importing it into Vegas for processing. But frankly, I am not quite sure how it works--if my footage is at 16Mbps and in AVCHD format...then can I render to MPEG-2 at that bitrate? If so and it works well, then shoot--I'll just buy it. I know it's $49 for a download, but that's a small price to pay to save the frustration!

TB

EDIT: Been reading a bit more on the UpShift site--looks like it is indeed converted to a high bitrate MPEG-2. Sounds interesting, but the reviews on the website aren't all exactly "glowing"...

If so and it works well, then shoot--I'll just buy it. I know it's $49 for a download, but that's a small price to pay to save the frustration!

I would for sure go that route. IMO I will not edit big projects in native AVCHD. Small ones with just a few cuts, trans. and then render is ok, but bigger ones 15 min. + I would always convert.
I think it is a matter of preparing and planing your worflow. If you have a quadcore PC you can convert to a more edit-freindly format in 1:1 time at the most. I don't know anything about quality loss etc. in this process, but I guess it is ok.

/Ulf

Sorry, but Pro 8 was released in SEPTEMBER of last year.

And I'm pretty sure 5 & 6 came out in April. No idea when 7 was released.

Rob