Apologies if I am asking silly questions, but I have used Vegas for various projects (mainly Vegas 6 and 7). It was great - rock solid and ultra reliable and brilliant for editing sound and creating DVDs with DVD Architect.
I upgraded to Vegas 8 when it was released but have not used it until recently. I am using Vegas 8.0c on Vista 32 under bootcamp. (I have a Mac Pro 2.0GHz Intel Xeon (x2) with 5GB of ram, although not all the ram shows up in Vista 32; Vista 64 is not an option because I have a pre2008 MacPro!).
Vegas has not been always been my main NLE (I used to use Liquid), although I am now considering using it as my main nle because I have recently moved from a Canon MVX45i DV camera to a Canon HF100 AVCHD camera. I am really happy with the camera. Vegas loads the .mts files and plays them back smoothly. There does not seem to be an avchd preset so I am using the blu-ray 1920x1080 50i preset (which is mpeg2). Is that the one I should be using? However - every now and then everything disappears and I am left staring at an empty desktop. Is it just the avchd which is stressing the program? Or is Vegas 8 less stable generally? I have adorage vitascene plugin for transitions, but if I go near that the program always crashes. Could that be the issue? How do I remove the plugin without uninstalling Vitascene?
Also, does Vegas have any issues creating an sd-dvd from HD footage? Do I simply render to dv and import into DVD Architect? At the moment, I do not have a Blu-ray burner. I intend to get one soon, but will produce DVDs (and bluray dics images) in the interim. Thanks in advance for any advice.
I upgraded to Vegas 8 when it was released but have not used it until recently. I am using Vegas 8.0c on Vista 32 under bootcamp. (I have a Mac Pro 2.0GHz Intel Xeon (x2) with 5GB of ram, although not all the ram shows up in Vista 32; Vista 64 is not an option because I have a pre2008 MacPro!).
Vegas has not been always been my main NLE (I used to use Liquid), although I am now considering using it as my main nle because I have recently moved from a Canon MVX45i DV camera to a Canon HF100 AVCHD camera. I am really happy with the camera. Vegas loads the .mts files and plays them back smoothly. There does not seem to be an avchd preset so I am using the blu-ray 1920x1080 50i preset (which is mpeg2). Is that the one I should be using? However - every now and then everything disappears and I am left staring at an empty desktop. Is it just the avchd which is stressing the program? Or is Vegas 8 less stable generally? I have adorage vitascene plugin for transitions, but if I go near that the program always crashes. Could that be the issue? How do I remove the plugin without uninstalling Vitascene?
Also, does Vegas have any issues creating an sd-dvd from HD footage? Do I simply render to dv and import into DVD Architect? At the moment, I do not have a Blu-ray burner. I intend to get one soon, but will produce DVDs (and bluray dics images) in the interim. Thanks in advance for any advice.