Comments

Chienworks wrote on 2/1/2005, 3:39 PM
This is what Vegas is for. It supports DX plugins. Vegas Studio is a lot cheaper because it is limited, and it's limited because it's cheaper. If you want more, pay more.
discdude wrote on 2/2/2005, 5:41 AM
While I understand why Vegas Movie Studio has to be limited compared to the full Vegas, the lack of plugin support is something I wish Sony would change -- especially considering Sony can make more money selling us plugins.
Disclord wrote on 2/2/2005, 6:00 AM
I also wish they would re-allow the use of the professional Main Concept MPEG-2 encoder. The current 'template-only' version is unacceptable in picture quality with its DVD encoding settings.
ScottW wrote on 2/2/2005, 6:07 AM
Does the pro MC encoder accept DV AVI files as input? If so, then simply render from VMS into a DV AVI file. Granted, it's not point and click as far as workflow goes, but at least you've got the ability to do it if you already have the other encoder.
IanG wrote on 2/2/2005, 8:19 AM
>Does the pro MC encoder accept DV AVI files as input?
Yes, details are here. If the issue is realy one of quality, TMPGEnc used to shade it over MC, but at the cost of being a lot slower. I don't know how the new version 3 Express compares, but it's a lot cheaper!

Ian G.