Saturday morning/afternoon I headed out (with my PC) to a client to edit with them. @ 12:30 I arrived. @ 1:30 we started editing. I've got an AMD X2 4200, 1gb DDR.
Between 1:30 & midnight, we edited only stopping to eat once. 1 crash the entire time. think it was because I had two instances open & one was being used to rip off a CD (thanks sony for adding cd-info stuff!). The one with the cd-ripper open crashed but the other instance never did (yeah for separate processes!)
We used generated media (protype, text, credit roll, solid color & noise texture). No issues at all (protype was exceptionally useful & so was the credit roll). The woman I was working for has a normal editor who had a heart attack (he's still alive & will be ok, just recovering & she needed it done) & a friend of hers/client of mine recommended me. The other editor did everything via tapes & a linear editing system. she was amazed at what I could do, quickly. What took days on the linear system took us 9.5 hours in Vegas 8. the ONLY time we used a different app (gimp) was for a thought bubble, everything else was in vegas: noise texture & biezer curve for faux-smoke, protype for a question mark moving about a person's head, protype for "interesting" narration-like text, solid color+cookie cutter plugin for a big bubble, solid white & biezer curve for stars above someone's head.
Honestly, if it wasn't for Vegas odds are I wouldn't of been able to do the job. It had everything I needed, ran perfectly, tackled every issue we had. Like I've said before, it was a slick as cow snot. Made changes while using RT preview to see how it looked, looping footage. While rendering out some sections we'd work on credits in another instance of vegas. The only reason we stopped working was because it was late & I needed to drive 40 minutes to get home.
best $150 I spent in a long time. So for everyone out there saying "it's no good for real work", I just spent a whole day doing it. I'd say it was as intense as anything you'd work on in broadcasting and with the AMD X2 4200, it rendered out the 40 minute video ~real time to mpeg-2 for dvd. That was with some CC on 1/2 the footage & the FX.
Between 1:30 & midnight, we edited only stopping to eat once. 1 crash the entire time. think it was because I had two instances open & one was being used to rip off a CD (thanks sony for adding cd-info stuff!). The one with the cd-ripper open crashed but the other instance never did (yeah for separate processes!)
We used generated media (protype, text, credit roll, solid color & noise texture). No issues at all (protype was exceptionally useful & so was the credit roll). The woman I was working for has a normal editor who had a heart attack (he's still alive & will be ok, just recovering & she needed it done) & a friend of hers/client of mine recommended me. The other editor did everything via tapes & a linear editing system. she was amazed at what I could do, quickly. What took days on the linear system took us 9.5 hours in Vegas 8. the ONLY time we used a different app (gimp) was for a thought bubble, everything else was in vegas: noise texture & biezer curve for faux-smoke, protype for a question mark moving about a person's head, protype for "interesting" narration-like text, solid color+cookie cutter plugin for a big bubble, solid white & biezer curve for stars above someone's head.
Honestly, if it wasn't for Vegas odds are I wouldn't of been able to do the job. It had everything I needed, ran perfectly, tackled every issue we had. Like I've said before, it was a slick as cow snot. Made changes while using RT preview to see how it looked, looping footage. While rendering out some sections we'd work on credits in another instance of vegas. The only reason we stopped working was because it was late & I needed to drive 40 minutes to get home.
best $150 I spent in a long time. So for everyone out there saying "it's no good for real work", I just spent a whole day doing it. I'd say it was as intense as anything you'd work on in broadcasting and with the AMD X2 4200, it rendered out the 40 minute video ~real time to mpeg-2 for dvd. That was with some CC on 1/2 the footage & the FX.