For all the people who are claiming the PSP/iPod output is an insult, and are trying to use it as sand to kick in the face of the developers, I have to say: give it a rest and grow up.
A little perspective: I live in Brooklyn and commute daily to Manhattan. On the train you've got 60-85% of your co-riders wearing headphones. Just about all of them used to be listening to iPods, but I would say now it's 70/30 iPods and PSP's. Of the iPod users, I'd say 30 to 50% of them are now carrying iPod Video units.
Whatever your feelings are about how new portable tech is splintering society (that's another conversation entirely), this disgust with Vegas's support for these formats is narrow minded. Claiming it's only a consumer "gimmick" or something similarly condescending is ridiculous: last I checked media producers want people to consume their products -- if you're producing something and you want it to reach people -- a mass of people -- guess what, you're going to output to (among other things) MPEG4 or some form of H264 in the near and immediately forseeable future. More and more you're going to see people carrying portable video players around, many of them in the form of their cell phones, and that's going to be the best way to reach them -- with whatever message you want. PSP, iPods and devices like them are The Future, and the Sony team should be thanked for having the forsight to implement it.
To the HVX whiners: please give it a rest. You keep threatening to leave Vegas -- go ahead already. That camera is not the Holy Grail. It's not even what it promised to be. It's at best still in its teething stages -- the P2 workflow, while a tempting idea, is often a nightmare in reality, and currently before its time (in a bad way). Don't get me wrong -- if I could cherry pick a cam's features in Fantasy Land, about 75% are in the HVX, but back in reality it simply doesn't function as the be-all camera it was supposed to be. I don't know the numbers, but given how relatively quiet Panasonic and the DVX fanbase has been since the HVX was released, I can't imagine it has that big of a market share. So, why should any NLE jump hoops to support every single camera format out there no matter its market share? That's ridiculous.
To anyone who plays the "WTF?! Vegas 7 doesn't have <insert pet feature request here>, I'm leaving!" card with this and every release... please, stop wasting forum space and do it already. Your comments are not accomplishing anything constructive (yes, I appreciate the irony of my saying this in this post), and do little more than come across as the typed equivelant of a childish foot stomping session.
Every year we go through this... even during the release of the hallowed Vegas 4 ("What?! No credit roll?! I'm leaving!"), and I'm completely with some of you and your requests, the app could be improved for sure, but don't kid yourselves into thinking you can strong-arm the developers into slaving over millions of lines of code to satisfy your needs simply by yelling at them. Put another way: I doubt half the angry posts reflect the way you'd talk to another human being face to face if they were sitting across the table from you. And, if you did speak to them that way, I wouldn't be surprised if you'd get laid out before you finished saying "What have you been doing for the last year and a half?!?!?!"
OK, I'm done. And no, I'm probably not upgrading :)
- jim
(....yet)
A little perspective: I live in Brooklyn and commute daily to Manhattan. On the train you've got 60-85% of your co-riders wearing headphones. Just about all of them used to be listening to iPods, but I would say now it's 70/30 iPods and PSP's. Of the iPod users, I'd say 30 to 50% of them are now carrying iPod Video units.
Whatever your feelings are about how new portable tech is splintering society (that's another conversation entirely), this disgust with Vegas's support for these formats is narrow minded. Claiming it's only a consumer "gimmick" or something similarly condescending is ridiculous: last I checked media producers want people to consume their products -- if you're producing something and you want it to reach people -- a mass of people -- guess what, you're going to output to (among other things) MPEG4 or some form of H264 in the near and immediately forseeable future. More and more you're going to see people carrying portable video players around, many of them in the form of their cell phones, and that's going to be the best way to reach them -- with whatever message you want. PSP, iPods and devices like them are The Future, and the Sony team should be thanked for having the forsight to implement it.
To the HVX whiners: please give it a rest. You keep threatening to leave Vegas -- go ahead already. That camera is not the Holy Grail. It's not even what it promised to be. It's at best still in its teething stages -- the P2 workflow, while a tempting idea, is often a nightmare in reality, and currently before its time (in a bad way). Don't get me wrong -- if I could cherry pick a cam's features in Fantasy Land, about 75% are in the HVX, but back in reality it simply doesn't function as the be-all camera it was supposed to be. I don't know the numbers, but given how relatively quiet Panasonic and the DVX fanbase has been since the HVX was released, I can't imagine it has that big of a market share. So, why should any NLE jump hoops to support every single camera format out there no matter its market share? That's ridiculous.
To anyone who plays the "WTF?! Vegas 7 doesn't have <insert pet feature request here>, I'm leaving!" card with this and every release... please, stop wasting forum space and do it already. Your comments are not accomplishing anything constructive (yes, I appreciate the irony of my saying this in this post), and do little more than come across as the typed equivelant of a childish foot stomping session.
Every year we go through this... even during the release of the hallowed Vegas 4 ("What?! No credit roll?! I'm leaving!"), and I'm completely with some of you and your requests, the app could be improved for sure, but don't kid yourselves into thinking you can strong-arm the developers into slaving over millions of lines of code to satisfy your needs simply by yelling at them. Put another way: I doubt half the angry posts reflect the way you'd talk to another human being face to face if they were sitting across the table from you. And, if you did speak to them that way, I wouldn't be surprised if you'd get laid out before you finished saying "What have you been doing for the last year and a half?!?!?!"
OK, I'm done. And no, I'm probably not upgrading :)
- jim
(....yet)