Been a while.....where are we

mrbill66 wrote on 2/13/2010, 11:52 AM
Been a while since Ive used SVMS...where are we on versions...How long has this version been out and are we close to a new version time.

Im getting ready to purchase new version. Just got the new Xacti 2000 HD camera and wanted to get the software update.

Want to get the newest. Are we at a place where there may be a new version coming soon??

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 2/13/2010, 12:03 PM
As always, those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know.
Eugenia wrote on 2/13/2010, 3:00 PM
>Just got the new Xacti 2000 HD camera and wanted to get the software update.

Regardless of a new version or not, with these cams you need intermediate codec support. I don't have any information about major new Vegas versions, but I would be *surprised* if Vegas now had full h.264 hardware acceleration -- which is needed to decode these super-heavy h.264 streams in the .MOV/MP4 format.

In your case, what you need is to either buy Cineform NeoSCENE for $100, or use the freeware (but slower) Avid DNxHD intermediate codec. Without these, expect just ~2 fps preview speed. And easy crashing (Vegas has a pretty bad Quicktime implementation).

Then again, who knows? Maybe a newer Vegas version does have nVidia Purevideo2 hardware acceleration for h.264. You and all of us will have to wait and see. But even then, do you even have an nVidia card on your PC?
david_f_knight wrote on 2/13/2010, 5:33 PM
There are update release notes for every version of Vegas, here:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/vegasfamily

The release notes of the various versions of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum are dated:
VMSP6 - April 2006
VMSP7 - July 2006
VMSP8 - April 2008
VMSP9 - September 2008

So, if that pattern continues, VMSP10 might be released in April 2010, and VMSP11 might be released just a few more months after that. Of course, there are no guarantees that pattern will be followed for the next release.

This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if you look at the job vacancies at Sony Creative Software, at:
http://scajobs.sony.com/careers/joblist.asp?location=443202
there is a new posting for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. It might just be an opening to replace another employee, or it could be them ramping up for a new release of something.