Canopus storm/ Vegas5,6

cervama wrote on 10/5/2005, 3:53 PM

Question: I have a friend of mine that edits on Canopus storm. He was asking me about vegas 5,6. What are the differences about the two of them? Is Vegas which I use better or are both good?

He told me 1:30 hour/minute wedding renders as fast as the 1:30 hour wedding.

Vegas takes me about 2.5 to 3.0 hours to render. I think I like the faster render.

I know they use different capture cards is this correct?

Thanks again,

MAC

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/5/2005, 3:59 PM

Storm is hardware assisted. It uses specific assistance for certain activities/processes like keying. Storm definitely renders much faster than Vegas due to this ability. The fast render is great; the lack of tools found in Edius/Storm is a little tough to cope with, but it's a great app/hardware combo. Codec quality is nearly as good as Vegas on the SD side, lots to be desired on the HDV side.
Lack of hardware support is the bane and boon of Vegas. With hardware support, many aspects of Vegas might be crippled, and on the DV side, most companies are walking away from hardware. However, HDV is two steps forward, one step back because of the size of the frame and the speed of the computer. Storm doesn't offer much assistance with the HDV side of things, and on my Storm system, it regularly crashes under Edius 3.3 with HDV.

cervama wrote on 10/5/2005, 4:35 PM

Thanks spot, I will deal with the render times of Vegas. I know a little about HDV. Can vegas 5,6 be able to reder out to HDV in other words can that be done to dvd so a high definition tv view it?

Thanks again,

MAC

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/5/2005, 6:55 PM

Both Vegas 5 and Vegas 6 can create an HD file that can be viewed on an HD television, yes.
HDV isn't really a delivery format, although it can be. HD is usually delivered on the broadcast side as HDCAM or a Quicktime that can be dropped into a media server, or will be delivered to consumers via a DVD scheme of either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD flavor. Or, streamed over the web as either AVC or as Windows Media/VC1.