How do I love thee (vegas) let me count ....

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/7/2006, 12:34 AM
ok, so with my new laptop running a modest 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo Proc. I just did a render of a video that is 9 minutes long. It took me about 2:1 real time to render a 15 track (9 video 6 audio) project and it had 80% transparency across 60% or more of the video, it was all cropped in the P/C, it was pretty extensively Color Corrected with effects on the clip, track, and project level. It included a couple small Chroma Keying portions, a little blurring, a project long multiply mask track, and so on... you get the idea. Anyway, Vegas just chewed through it like it was nothing. This was being compressed to WMV 512K CBR. Just awesome, I feel like "who needs hardware acceleration when a LAPTOP can get me near realtime playback on most of this while editing, and it can render at near realtime too!"

ok, I'm done now. Time to sleep

Dave

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vicmilt wrote on 11/7/2006, 3:02 AM
Impressive... but 1.8 Core 2 Duo aint chopped liver.

What I like about Vegas is that it will also run on a really tired "backup" machine. Does fine on my 1.8 Pentium 4, as well. (Not as well as that Core 2 Duo, of course... but it works.)

In fact, for basic cutting, you can't tell which machine you're on. We use it to select takes from the orginial footage.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/7/2006, 6:10 PM
granted a 1.8 Core 2 Duo is not nothin, but it's sure no 2.6 :)

Dave
Laurence wrote on 11/7/2006, 9:26 PM
DV or HDV? My P4 3.06 handles decently complex DV files just fine, but HDV files without Gearshift can bring it to it's knees if I do anything other than a single stream without filters.
vicmilt wrote on 11/8/2006, 12:39 AM
Sorry - you are totally correct - I was referring to DV only.

One of the "wonders" of Vegas 7 is it's ability to work with HDV. But that kind of execution does rely on a more powerful machine.

Since I made the shift to V7 at exactly the same time as the shift to HDV, I forgot the two were intertwined.

v
apit34356 wrote on 11/8/2006, 12:50 AM
hows the HDV editing going on the "Cowboys"?
vicmilt wrote on 11/8/2006, 1:03 AM
Too early to say how totally enthralled I am. But only because editing is a long process, and I (like everyone else here) can only judge based on the Final Finished Result.

However, my initial reaction is OVERWHELMIINGLY excellent. The picture is unbelieveable and the responsiveness of Vegas 7 is wonderful. Just like editing DV, in most ways. No hangs or glitches so far.

This all leads me to believe that Sony has once again gotten us "over the hump".

This being a long process, it will be months before I actually am looking at totally completed results. But my preliminary successes are totally positive, and only my natural paranoia prevents me from an unqualified, absolute and probably very deserved YES -

In other words, I'm saying, "Dive In".

v