I must be living right. :-)

MyST wrote on 4/26/2005, 3:50 PM
I've captured, edited, rendered and burned a DVD with V6/DVD-A 3 successfully.
Admittedly, the editing was light compared to what alot of you guys do, but I still managed to get done what I wanted to do, crashfree.
I even used my Contour ShuttleXpress with imported prefs for V6.

Surely I'm not the only one... am I?

Mario

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 4/26/2005, 4:02 PM
I've been pounding v6 for over a week now and it has worked just fine. I've also used DVDA3 quite a bit as well. Up until now, I had been using Adobe Encore for my DVD authoring needs, but it looks like DVDA3 might get me to change my mind about that. I'm happy.

John
apit34356 wrote on 4/26/2005, 4:35 PM
I've using the demo vegas6 and its been working fine. done some complex "nested" operations and it has worked fine.... though, I've not try to push vegas6 to the edge. So far, it looks like vegas6 handles large files a little better that vegas5. Have not tested the HDV input capture feature yet.

Question for Sony, is the maincept encoder engine the same for vegas5 and vegas6, its appears to be.
ReneH wrote on 4/26/2005, 7:53 PM
I rendered a 10 minute project with lots of Magic Bullet plugins here and there, inluding other effects as well as several audio tracks. Just awesome is all I can say. I can't believe the performance & reliability this program has. Very happy here.
jlafferty wrote on 4/26/2005, 10:12 PM
Aside from loooong launch times, and problems nesting composite veg's (sub 1fps playback), I've got no problems. The rendering speed has me smiling quite a bit :D

- jim
PeterWright wrote on 4/27/2005, 2:10 AM
Today I threw caution to the wind and took V6 on laptop for an editing session at a client's office.

I had already done a preliminary edit, and we went through tightening things up & adding captions, then recording the client's own Voice Over straight onto the timeline.

Happy to say all went well.
plasmavideo wrote on 4/27/2005, 9:35 AM
QUOTE: I've been pounding v6 for over a week now and it has worked just fine. I've also used DVDA3 quite a bit as well. Up until now, I had been using Adobe Encore for my DVD authoring needs, but it looks like DVDA3 might get me to change my mind about that. I'm happy.

John

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Can I pick some of your brains on this. The weak link for me is my DVD capability. The only thing I have right now is the limited Ulead software that came with my Pioneer burner. It doesn't even do AC3 encoding. I can upgrade for a reasonable price to their DVD Workshop or their DVD Workshop Express. I was thinking of doing that before the Vegas 6/ DVDA3 offer came out.

The bonus would be having Vegas 6. I'm happy with Vegas 4, but 6 would get me all of the features of 5 plus 6.

I don't need a very sophisticated DVD authoring package - my projects are mostly family histories, presentations and projects not for mass production. What I DO need is a reliable, stable, package with good AC3 encoding and basic menus and sub menus.

In my workflow, I normally use Canopus Storm with Edius for most editing and Vegas for compositing and for things Edius won't do. I then use Procoder for MPEG encoding.

Do you folks have any comments regarding DVDA vs DVD Workshop? I'm beginning to think the V6/DVDA3 upgrade is a no brainer, but I'm a novice at DVDs and would appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks.

Tom
John_Cline wrote on 4/27/2005, 9:47 AM
Tom,

I played with DVD Workshop v2.0 when it first came out. I didn't find the workflow or the interface to be particularly intuitive, so I gave up on it pretty quickly. At the time, I was using Sonic DVDit PE and it's interface was incredibly difficult to deal with. I then discovered DVDlab and was pretty happy with it until I got Adobe Encore. I have used Encore for about a year until DVDA v3 came out and now I'm using DVDA about 50% of the time and that percentage will probably increase as I get used to it.

My personal opinion is that DVDA v1 was a good start but it was missing a lot of features I thought were necessary, DVDA v2 was "almost there" and DVDA v3 has finally "gotten there." It is as good, if not better, than anything out there at the moment (in its price range.) If you are moderately familiar with DVD authoring and familiar with the Vegas/Sound Forge/Acid interface, it won't take you very long to get comfortable with DVDA v3. It's easy to do a basic DVD quickly, yet has the power to author some very sophisticated projects. My suggestion is to get the Vegas/DVDA upgrade.

John
plasmavideo wrote on 4/27/2005, 10:44 AM
John,

Thank you for the comments. I do have Acid and SF as well, so I'm used to the interface. DVD Workshop looked better to me than Sonic for sure, and I'm familiar with Ulead's interfaces as well, so I pretty much had boiled it down to DVDA and DVDWS. Ulead makes some pretty good stuff (PhotoImpact is one of my favorite apps) But sometimes I think they don't seem to have a good feel for the USA pulse (IMHO), and I'm thinking perhaps SonFoun/Sony does. (Still think of them as SF - LOL).

Tom
bStro wrote on 4/27/2005, 10:54 AM
You might want to ask your question over on the DVDA forum. I don't use Procoder, but I believe some people who do have had problems with their files in DVDA2. Something to do with it thinking the files are a different aspect ratio than they are. The workaround is simple (delete a file that DVDA creates), but some find it annoying. Not sure if this has been resolved in DVDA3.

Rob
plasmavideo wrote on 4/27/2005, 11:07 AM
Thanks Rob. Interestingly, I recently found some posts on the Ulead forum regarding field reversal problems in DVDWS using Procoder produced files, so I'll be interested to search for the threads on the DVDA forum regarding the issue you mention. My Movie Factory 3 that came with the Pioneer burner also reverses the field order of Canopus produced AVI files when it encodes . . . oh, well . . . always workarounds for the undocumented features!

I posted over at DVDA per your suggestion - thanks.
bStro wrote on 4/27/2005, 11:48 AM
I'll be interested to search for the threads on the DVDA forum regarding the issue you mention

Run a search for "SVFX" (without quotes) -- that should find you most of the threads. Add in "Procoder" to zero in on posts that mention that, though not all the relevant ones do.

(SVFX is the extention of the file involved in the workaround.)

Rob