I'm satisfied with not spending more money and getting the 6d release :)

Dave

the slower 6.0d release has been out for weeks. i hardly call it NAB-worthy news; however, maybe sony has something good up its sleeve for V7--an announcement is in order, IMO.

> a technology demonstration of things to come

Sounds like HD and/or hardware acceleration support to me. Or.... maybe that's just wishful thinking.

Or a Dynamic Linking and Embedding strategy between several Madison products. Meaning you drop Acid projects onto a Vegas timeline, or vice versa.

The "HD" angle could be more related to DVDa

Hardware acceleration, I think, would most likely come in the form of GPU assistance. Of course there's still plenty of room for improvement of aquisition over SDI, as well as output to HD studio monitors. But I doubt they'll start promoting a specific hardware acceleration card.

Another thing to wonder about is the current association with Bauhaus. After all, Boris now owns an NLE of their own.

Rob Mack

Acid projects onto a Vegas timeline, or vice versa. <--- Now, that would be sweet!

Perhaps Sony will come out with a stand alone DVDA4 at Nab capable of authoring bluray and HDDVD ?

Would be nice.

" ...along with a few other surprises ..."

I just hope they don't announce that they're going back to their roots as a music recording developer and dropping video altogether ... would that be hilarious..?

surrrPRISE! ;-)

Rob Mack

>>>Oh well,
I guess its back to avid for me.<<<

Huh? because 7 isn't released yet?

Weird, I don't buy an application just to be able to count on pricey upgrade plans. I'd rather USE IT.
How about we call 6d "vegas7" for you then, and go ahead and pay $199.00 for it...would that solve your dilemna?

Oh, and I got a bridge I think you should buy. Let's talk! Special sale for you.

sarcasm - off

Humm,
I guess I should explain in more detail. I have a camera "HVX200" which ='s dvcproHD codec, Vegas 6.0d has no DVCpro Hd codec :-(. I was hoping Vegas 7.0 would have the codec but its not coming out yet. I need to edit pro100 asap. I can get an Avid upgrade, but, well I like vegas better. I'm thinking about raylight for the HVX200, so I may stick with vegas.

Apsolon,

I have no inside knowledge, but my guess from reading hints on the message boards is HVX200 support is going to come from third parties such as Raylight from DVFilm or possibly Cineform. I think this is going to be Sony's official position. This is based on a guess that Panasonic was going to charge Sony Media Software an arm and a leg to license the codec for developers. So Vegas would have to attract lots of new customers to justify the cost of adding HVX200 support.

This is similar to how Final Cut Pro folks have to buy Automatic Duck if they want robust EDL support.

OK - I've got my thinking cap on, but this is the best I could do...

How 'bout a preview of Vegas in Vista?

... Vegas is a .Net app after all, right?

I don't think Vegas itself is a dot-net app. It's just that you can script it in dot-net.

I've never seen a dot-net app with really good performance so I don't think Vegas itself is written that way.

In many ways, Vista itself isn't such a big deal. Vegas will run on it anyway, I think. On the other hand, Vista puts a lot of requirements on hardware manufacturers so that there needs to be a certain amount of graphics support and there are a few things I'm running across regarding integrated graphics and jack detection. Not earthshaking but it raises the minimum standard for new systems that can support Vista, and so I suppose that Vegas could target some new graphics features that will soon be ubiquitous.

We'll have to just wait and see. I suspect we can imagine a lot more than they have resources to implement, so it's best not to let the imagination run wild lest we all be dissappointed.

Rob Mack

We'll have to just wait and see. I suspect we can imagine a lot more than they have resources to implement, so it's best not to let the imagination run wild lest we all be dissappointed.

Very wise words, and something we should all listen too, also.

but... we probably wont, and what fun would it be if we did :)

anyway - I still suggest that we listen to it though :)

Dave

"In many ways, Vista itself isn't such a big deal. Vegas will run on it anyway, I think. "

Already runs in the beta of vista... So I wouldn't be scared. It looks nicer under vista too :)

I think it's great V7 will not show up at NAB. You know they wanted to. This can only mean one thing: V7 will be a far more impressive upgrade than V5 to V6 was! I can see it now, all the Premiere 2.0 & AE features and then some!

PS. Vegas 6 did not work with February Vista beta version. But this was a Vista beta extra high security protection settings problem. The real Vista should support all XP compatible software no matter what.

Seriously, I'd be surprised if anyone could keep up with all the great (and not so great) ideas the forum members come up with.

Since I'd like to be pleasantly pleased by Vegas 7, I don't want to make any assumptions about what'll be in it. There are always things that a few people would have liked that just don't get in.

Rob Mack

You know, either way the Vegas dev team will have a hard time of it.

If they'd been pressed to get it out the door by NAB, they would do so I imagine, and would release a product that necessarily would not be properly tested on as wide an array of hardware setups as possible.

Then the same people moaning here on these forums right now that it's not going to be at NAB, would be the very same people moaning that "Sony released a buggy product and SoFo NEVER did that!!"

Personally, I'd prefer to wait for a more stable, feature rich product than get out of the gate with everyone else.

And if they can do that and meet the NAB deadline, so much the better :)

- jim