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boomhower wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:33 PM
Interesting....

Is that a pro monitor that Nightline guy is using.....?

Keith
rs170a wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:42 PM
And did you catch some of the new features?

nested controls;
access to the BlackMagic Designs Decklink card;
new Media Manager;
nested project ability.

Gonna be a fun trip to NAB :-)

Mike
p@mast3rs wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:45 PM
Now, see, this is the perfect opportunity for Sony to pimp Vegas by putting stories like these on the site. Nice article and the suspense continues to build.
James Green wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:46 PM
Sounds cool...I can't wait!

James Green
Spot|DSE wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:50 PM
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p@mast3rs wrote on 4/4/2005, 8:50 PM
Sorry Spot. Hope we dont get you into any trouble. It was all Dave's fault.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:00 PM
Hey - when you've got mad sluething skills, it's hard to not say anything.

:)

Sorry Sony - didn't mean to kill anything, but I don't think I did worse than the marketing team. Advertising in a magazine a month early :o

Dave
p@mast3rs wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:18 PM
Sleuth us a demo copy of Vegas 6 why dont you?
mattockenfels wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:37 PM
Hey, also follow the article link to Covergent Designs and check out the way Vegas is supported by thier device ...

"Upcoming uncompressed video/audio over 1394 with Final Cut Pro (2Q 2005), Sony Vegas(2Q 2005), and Adobe Premiere(1Q 2005)"

<SALIVATE> Whaaat? Does that mean no "jerkeyvision" on firewire as external monitor out? </SALIVATE>
farss wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:53 PM
Yes.
farss wrote on 4/4/2005, 10:14 PM
I just hope they've fixed that Flash Frame problem, like I said in another post (and honest I knew NOTHING about Dateline or V6) when a flash frame goes to air it'll take 5 minutes before a lot of resources get allocated to the problem.

What really threw me about this story is we have an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) that also has a program called Dateline. I'm certain those of us who don't live in the USA would love to see some of the stuff that these guys have done with Vegas.

Certainly this is a HUGE step forward and not just for Vegas and the team in Madison but to the rest of us who've stuck to our guns with Vegas. Of course now that it looks like it's going mainstream I'm going to have to find something else, wasn't there a post about some NLE out of Europe that looked like it belonged on the flight deck of the Enterprise?

Bob.
boomhower wrote on 4/4/2005, 10:26 PM
Someone posted on here a few days ago (or so) asking if you could find work with Vegas skills under your belt. These type integrations into mainstream media (Nightline) will help make that a reality. It's a good thing.

Keith
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/4/2005, 10:28 PM
Of course now that it looks like it's going mainstream I'm going to have to find something else - HA HA HA - I was thinkin that there's gonna be some that secretly (or not so secretly) like vegas being the underdog. (partly that way myself too, probably cuz I like the feeling of kicking the other guys butt, with my "underdog")

Dave
busterkeaton wrote on 4/4/2005, 10:56 PM
We have a show called Dateline in the US too, but it's on NBC and not ABC.

Nightline, however, is the top of heap for broadcast journalism in the US especially for a nightly show. It's a very big coup for the Media Software crew.
Grazie wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:26 PM
Better previewing? Do I need to buy extra hardware?

Grazie
Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:35 PM
I agree this will definitely help... I occasionally do work for a local PBS channel and they simply have no awareness of Vegas at all. When I get asked by various people at the station "what do you edit on" I invariably get either a) a blank stare when I mention Vegas or b) they say.. "Oh I've heard of that... interesting!".

It will help to be able to direct them to such an industry story as this.

Thanks also to DSE for writing an excellent article.
Grazie wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:52 PM
"Oh I've heard of that... interesting!". - LOL!

I now know how an Acturist feels when asked at THE dinner party, "And what, exactly, do you do?"

Grazie



. . and, will I need to buy extra hardware for this better previewing? I'm runnung an ASUS P4G800 Deluxe with 2gig RAM running at 3.2 gHtz?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:59 PM
Extra hardware for previewing?

I doubt you will HAVE to buy extra hardware for previewing.... but I suspect what is being referred to is related to the connections with various SDI capture devices/cards to go out to broadcast type decks?

pedit] oops... for BETTER VIEWING (missed the better part). My answer is... who knows... in any case... I still think this "better" viewing is related to what I said above.
Grazie wrote on 4/5/2005, 12:20 AM
Yes, Liam . . I'm not talking about extra hardware for Previewing, I can already Preview - this is for better previewing not the "jerkyvision" the poster above mentioned.

So, Decklink? SDI? this will give faster better smoother Previewing? Yes?

If so then I would need to buy extra hardware - a Decklink card. So, with respect to Better Smoother Previewing, my present setup might not benefit from V6? The question still remains.

Thanks for replying,

Grazie
farss wrote on 4/5/2005, 1:21 AM
Grazie,
as you probably know the frame rate during preview assuming no FXs involved is largely dependant on two things:
1) How fast the disks can feed the data.
2) Vegas not being interrupted by some other service
3) The source media matches the output format.

And yes I can't count, I'm and Awestralian OK.

BillyBoy wrote on 4/5/2005, 7:05 AM
Reality check...

Nightline isn't "mainstream" anything. It was always on outside primetime.

Its lost 40% of it audience it had 10 years ago and Ted Koppel is getting kicked off... oops. ("leaving") not just the show he's been host of from the 80's when it started, but he's leaving the ABC network in December.

"Nightline" viewership also is about 20 percent less than the number of people watching Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS and about 37 percent fewer than watching NBC's "Tonight Show." Both those competitors are hour-long programing, while ABC has seen a sharp fall-off in viewers between "Nightline" and its entertainment talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that follows."

more:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/31/news/newsmakers/abc_koppel/?cnn=yes

Nat wrote on 4/5/2005, 7:27 AM
Billy, can't you see the positive side of things ?

I'm just glad Vegas is having some recognition and I really don't care how much people watch that show, I can't see it anyways in Canada.
BillyBoy wrote on 4/5/2005, 7:42 AM
I see things how they are. Positive, negative, netural. I'm well aware that some see the world through rose colored glasses or wear blinders seeing only what they want to see. For example the reality in this forum is I my opinions more than anybody else's opinions in this forum always seem to come into question. Yea, I've noticed. I tell you what Nat, next time I have an opinion, I'll send you a email first and get your permission if its ok with you for me to share it with the forum. Geez, all I did was set the record straight for the present state of Nightline, (its in major decline) I didn't say a word about Vegas, so it seems it bothers some people if I say anything regardless of topic. So if I take you at your word, your upset about me commenting on a show you can't see. Isn't that peachy.
Spot|DSE wrote on 4/5/2005, 8:00 AM
Good sleuthing, Dave. It's good Sony had granted permission to post the story before you found it out. :-) Watch for it on DMN later this week. With luck, we'll have more in there for you to salivate over. But the finished story is up.

So what if Nightline is not #1 in it's slot? I'd hate to be up against Letterman or Leno with a news show. The point of the story isn't that Nightline isn't #1, the point of the story is that the top-rated late news show in America is using Sony Vegas to cut their show packages with. Smaller in it's slot or not, it's still a HUGE show, with a HUGE budget, with a very good future ahead of it. And they're using Sony Vegas.