Is SVP12 a buy and stabilisation question

Malcolm D wrote on 10/16/2012, 11:38 PM
Hello

I note some users like Laurence having had a bad experience with SVP11 are warming to SVP12. Some features like colour match appeal to me also.

There was a lot of criticism of the changes to the stabilization feature between versions 10 and 11 but I have not seen comment about it in 12. Is it the same?

I went from version 8 to 10 and felt let down by Sony abandoning it it with known bugs.
With all the problems people had with SVP11 I gave it a wide berth.
Is there a consensus in favour of SVP12 in spite of it's known issues and not having had a patch released yet.
Time to take advantage of the special offer is slipping away but it is not special if it is not more stable than 11.

Thoughts please

Malcolm

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 10/17/2012, 12:58 AM
I very much like the Color Match and the fact that VP 12 supports Intel Quick Sync has been a bonus that made it worth the upgrade for me. I was not as happy with 10 or 11 from the standpoint of value for all the trouble. The L and J cuts appeal to me but I can't remember the key sequence and I've been too distracted to actually look it up in the manual. I think about reading the manual every time I do a cut the hard way, Ungroup, turn off Auto ripple, slide the video or audio, Group.

I have not used stabilzation.
Malcolm D wrote on 10/19/2012, 3:36 AM
Thanks John
Would anyone else like to comment especially on the stabilization question.
gripp wrote on 10/19/2012, 4:36 AM
Malcolm,

Stabilization in Vegas 12 works very well (for me). In Vegas 11 it was a disaster.

All in all, VP12 makes editing a joy again, and the new features are very nice. I've still had a few crashes/freezes but nothing like as frequently in VP11.

So far I'm very pleased that I upgraded from VP11 to VP12, a view that seems to be shared by many other members of this forum.
Ryadia wrote on 10/19/2012, 5:56 AM
Stabalisation often depends on your graphics card and not all graphics cards allow VP12 to run stable!.

Your Gforce card and Windows XP on System #1 might not be the best combination for editing HD video - period ...but if you avoid using the card's GPU, you will get some good (slow) use from it.

System #2 is a bit better. My opinion is an i5 CPU is boarderline for HD DVD creation unless you are only making 5 minute stuff. Whatever you decide, Vegas Pro 12 is a big improvement on version 11 but like all improved software, the penality usually comes when you want to get full use from plugins and FX.

Video Noise control and a few other close to essencial add-ons will quickly see an i5 CPU start struggling. I cant say how VP performs with 32 bit windows because I've had 64 bit for years.

On the hardware issue. 8 gig is not generous when you edit HD videos or Blue-Ray files. Absolutely not possible when you create video for use with wide screen movies or RED footage. But I guess everyone has to start somewhere and your system #2 is a fair enough place to start.

For an example... My i5 Asus K52J notebook with 8 gig of RAM and a solid state hard drive takes about 9 hours to render a 45 minute video built with 20 clips. I used some FX plugins and brightness adjustments on some clips, noise control on other.

The exact same job on my i7 workstation with 16 gig of RAM, a solid state drive for virtual RAM and RAID system for the rest of hard drive usage takes 3 hours. It uses a new Gforce card I bought last week. That alone was worth the cash just for the extra speed over my original Radeon card.

Dollar for dollar... I don't thing you'll get better than Vegas Pro 12 but be prepared to keep the wallet open as your skill level increases and you need my add ons.

Stability cost money for hardware... How stable do you want it to be?