OK - I've had a chance to play a bit and still have yet to really put the new Vegas through it's rigors, and knowing how EVERYONE just waits with baited breath to hear what I have to say :P.
Let me preface this with the fact that while I was in Las Vegas at NAB, the number one complaint I heard from higher level editors than I, was the lack of FULL Keyboard editing support. I would hear about how KB editing was so much faster than mouse interface. I have to say that I'm am quite pleased to see that they have enhanced KB support in the new version, for those that edit for a living, time is money - and every time I see things that save me or others time I say, that's a VERY good enhancement.
I've been wanting a better way to *quickly* pull down a bit of audio, w/o having to click 6 times and drag the keyframe down. So now I can hold down shift and just click draw that little section down as I need - that saves me more time there too. VERY worthwhile enhancement.
I use RAM renders a lot, and I did some tests and found that my RAM renders were running at FULL CPU utilization (6 didn't make such good utilization).
I am yet to render with Vegas 7 but I figure it probably can't get too much better than 100 percent which it was at in 6. Mind you if they've enhanced some of the filters etc... to work faster then they will probably render faster too :) - I've yet to test them though so I can't say for certain.
Now let me finish by saying this. There are enhancements that should be done that take time to make happen. People used to complain about how they have to pay a yearly upgrade price with Vegas, so then they go 18months and put out PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL enhancements right when the next release would have been put out normally, and then they managed a lot of decent timesaving enhancements and release the next version. What kind of things are more important to a PROFESSIONAL app than time saving techniques??? I fully expect that version upgrades will not always have major changing tools etc... I expect to simply have upgrades coming where some you pay for, and some you don't.
Now all of these things do not even include the enhanced HDV support, and so on, Decklink Card support, etc...
Vegas is doing fine IMHO, but I know that every year - the fickle must fick, and that's how things always are. Let me say that those that are working and will use these enhancements will more than likely never say a word on these forums and will simply say, "Ahh, I've been waiting for that," and they will just keep working making dough at a faster rate.
Dave
Let me preface this with the fact that while I was in Las Vegas at NAB, the number one complaint I heard from higher level editors than I, was the lack of FULL Keyboard editing support. I would hear about how KB editing was so much faster than mouse interface. I have to say that I'm am quite pleased to see that they have enhanced KB support in the new version, for those that edit for a living, time is money - and every time I see things that save me or others time I say, that's a VERY good enhancement.
I've been wanting a better way to *quickly* pull down a bit of audio, w/o having to click 6 times and drag the keyframe down. So now I can hold down shift and just click draw that little section down as I need - that saves me more time there too. VERY worthwhile enhancement.
I use RAM renders a lot, and I did some tests and found that my RAM renders were running at FULL CPU utilization (6 didn't make such good utilization).
I am yet to render with Vegas 7 but I figure it probably can't get too much better than 100 percent which it was at in 6. Mind you if they've enhanced some of the filters etc... to work faster then they will probably render faster too :) - I've yet to test them though so I can't say for certain.
Now let me finish by saying this. There are enhancements that should be done that take time to make happen. People used to complain about how they have to pay a yearly upgrade price with Vegas, so then they go 18months and put out PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL enhancements right when the next release would have been put out normally, and then they managed a lot of decent timesaving enhancements and release the next version. What kind of things are more important to a PROFESSIONAL app than time saving techniques??? I fully expect that version upgrades will not always have major changing tools etc... I expect to simply have upgrades coming where some you pay for, and some you don't.
Now all of these things do not even include the enhanced HDV support, and so on, Decklink Card support, etc...
Vegas is doing fine IMHO, but I know that every year - the fickle must fick, and that's how things always are. Let me say that those that are working and will use these enhancements will more than likely never say a word on these forums and will simply say, "Ahh, I've been waiting for that," and they will just keep working making dough at a faster rate.
Dave