New Vegas 7a and Decklink SP

Vegas video wrote on 10/10/2006, 1:31 AM
The new version of Vegas is missing the reference to the PRINT DEVICE!
When you install the Decklink with 5.6 drivers, it don´t recognize the Vegas card when starting to read a video and another drivers makes the situation even worse.

Problem:
1.Those who work in media and has the Vegas on one side and the analog BetaCam UVW-1800P on the other,couldn´t select audio chanels while exporting to Tape in the last version of Vegas. So it happened that the Vegas sent just a picture to the Beta but it didn´t give it an order to record the sound also.
In the 7th version it´s possible to choose the sound for the export but only over a digital SDI output.Which is really nice but how many of regional studios in the Czech Republic has digital Betas?
The Adobe Premiere is much more advenced in this so you have a lot of to catch up on.

2. When you are chosing a font in a subtitles program, The Vegas just goes down without any advance warning.

3. When you put avi files in to a Timeline,which have a halfpicture´s default setup a different way, you just have to all of these kinds of files turn yourself instead of Vegas doing it automaticly.A new Ädobe Premiere and Avid has that figured out already.

I suggest you to make the Vegas with a Matrox cards support, which works even with DV format, because a noncompression YUV codec is 30x bigger and more problematical for an archiving.And in addition to when the YUV´s video files are exported to avi DV, the picture is blurred.

So when you have in the timeline something from DV and something from Decklink, then it is a problem

Hanz

Comments

farss wrote on 10/10/2006, 3:46 AM
Don't know if I can help you much but maybe I can ask a few questions so that someone who can gets a better grasp of your issues.

1. Which Decklink card are you using and how is it connected to the UVW1800? From memory the 1800 only has two audio channels so I don't quite follow the issue here. I assume Vegas would feed the main output to the BMD card and then to the deck. Also BTW you can get BetaSP decks with SDI ports.

2. Which subtitle program, as far as I know Vegas doesn't support subtitles /CC.

3. What is a "halfpicture's default setup"?

The YUV codec is compressed, it's about 3 times bigger than DV25. Going from SP to DV25 to SP would NOT seem a wise move to me. It's bad enough that Vegas is only 8 bit, don't add DV's compression and chroma sampling into the mix, yuck!

Bob.