Audio CD burners in Vegas 4

gettig wrote on 12/7/2003, 8:28 PM

Hi All,

I searched, but didn't find this anywhere conclusively. If it's there, please feel free to point me there. :)

I currently use Vegas 3 for limited "mastering" of live content CD's. I drop the big wave file on the timeline, add my regions, and do a disc-at-once burn. Works great.

I'm planning to upgrade to Vegas+DVD tomorrow or the next day. Does version 4 have the same abilities? Or do I need to get CD Architect to do those mastering tasks now?

I'm going to upgrade regardless, but I am also planning to get a new CD burner this week. I want to be sure I get a drive that is compatible with Vegas 4. Is it a stretch to say that the CD drives listed as compatible with CD Architect are compatible for burning with Vegas 4?

I can find the list of supported drives for CD Architect, but cannot seem to locate such a list for Vegas 4. Any pointers in the right direction, including CD burning drive recommendations, are appreciated!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 12/8/2003, 5:22 AM

I use Vegas 4 for all my audio CD burning, and it works on all the CD drives i've ever tried. I don't know all the models off the top of my head, but I've successfully used it with a SONY 24x/10x/40x, HP DVD300i (yes, to create audio CDs), some HP 16x writer in my tower at work, a Yamaha 16x burner at church, and a no-name brand combo 4X DVD/CD-RW at church. It seems to be pretty compatible with a wide range of drives.

Rednroll wrote on 12/8/2003, 9:13 AM

Vegas 4 and 3 will work with any MMC compatible burner. Most newer burners support this. MMC was a standard developed to elliminate software vendors having to support seperate CDburner drivers for their apps. So if the burner is MMC compliant, it will work with Vegas. CD architect 5.0 works with this same functionality.

gettig wrote on 12/8/2003, 10:55 AM

Thanks tons to both of you, Chienworks and Rednroll. The drive I really want to use is my HP dvd300i, but I've never been able to burn an audio CD with it...not even with the software that came with it.

Was there anything special to get your dvd300i working? I'm currently using W2K, but have an upgrade to XP Home that I am hoping to install this week. All this in a Compaq P4 2 GHz with 256 MB.

Chienworks wrote on 12/8/2003, 11:01 AM

I did absolutely nothing with my DVD300i other than physically install it. I didn't install any drivers whatsoever. I'm running Vegas 4.0d under XP Pro.

Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/8/2003, 8:22 PM

Though having both V4 and CDA5, I still can't get the hang of mastering/pre-mastering/etc in Vegas. It's just such a klutzy process in comparison, IMO.

geoff