It's about the "Road Travelled". It is not about arriving!

AC3 encoding fixed which is a major bonus, no more export as wav, copy to virtual PC, encode in vegas 6 and copy back, direct from 7b now, lightning fast.

"no more export as wav, copy to virtual PC, encode in vegas 6 and copy back, direct from 7b now, lightning fast. "

So 7b screwed up your well defined workflow. Oh well, you can't satisfy everybody. ;)

Still Have'nt fixed the Cineform Version 2.1 Issue.

Vegas 7.0b still seems to run Sanyo HD1 MPEG4 and WMV vids very slow and clunky as compared to Vegas 6.0d.

I hope they get this fixed as I like to work with WMV 720p and smaller.

"Still Have'nt fixed the Cineform Version 2.1 Issue."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's not Sony's responsibiltity to fix CineForm products. All Sony can do is provide an API and CineForm comes up with whatever they do. Just like the BlackMagic and other third party tools. Sony says "Hey, we changed this...." and it's up to third parties to get up to speed. VASST had 40 products to update; while it wasn't a party, it got done. Other third parties such as Pixelan, New Blue, and Velvet Matter had to do the same.

I don't think it's quite that simple, Spot. If I understand correctly, Cineform provided a codec and API for Sony, not the other way around. Regardless, the Cineform codec is a built-in part of Vegas (from the user's perspective) that gets distributed as a Vegas feature. That's a big difference from being a completely external, outside 3rd party plugin (as are the VASST products you mentioned).

Playback of the Cineform codec is slower for all Vegas 7 users, not just the ones who bought Cineform's HD Connect. If people buy Vegas 7 and the "out of box" solution suffers compared to the previous version, those users look at who delivered the product to them (Sony). And anyway, Sony really pushed and touted the use of the Cineform codec as a workflow solution. Now they've got customers hooked on it, and they've effectively downgraded their performance with it. Was this an oversight or a marketing decision? We don't know. But we are disappointed.

And yes, Cineform has a role in this too. They knew that Sony was coming out with a new release of Vegas. And what did they do to prepare for it? Apparently nothing. They reacted quickly, but there was nothing proactive about their actions.

Hopefully both companies will respond to the needs of their customers and work together to improve the situation.

I think they will fix that - but it seems to take more time, compared to what was possible for 7b.

What amazes me is that they have already released two updates in what amounts to a month after the release - try getting that out of Avid, Adobe, etc....

Kudo's to the software guys in Madison!!! :)

Oh, sorry :) Dont get me wrong - Vegas and the madison guys are absolutely amazing! It's almost creepy how the progression of the software has mirrored my own needs - When I first started using it I always figured I would have to migrate to some big hardware system at some point.

Now with Vegas 6, Cineform and my Dell 2405 I can show clients full res/ full framerate HD in all it's jaw dropping glory! On a fairly inexpensive home built computer! I get guys coming in from huge money FCP and Avid suites and my little set up looks just like the big boys.

I'm sure the V7/Cineform thing will get figured out - the developers of this software rock! But for full HD preview I'm still using V6 for right now -

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So far I too am happy with V7, and I'm really interested in the tie-in with Cinescore (which I purchased in the bundle deal).

For now I'm using the "takes" feature to switch between .m2t and CFDI for playback vs. render. It's not frame-accurate, though. Converting from one to the other slides the audio a bit and the video too (by about a frame or so). Nonetheless, it's working ok and I love the faster playback with .m2t. In my earlier posting I simply wanted to express that I hope both parties (Sony and Cineform) take an interest to fix the issues with CFDI playback, as they should (based on customer need). And I too trust that this will happen.

Did anyone else encounter bizarrely slow downloads from the server for both apps?

My download of Vegas 7.0b was pretty speedy, I didn't take note of the exact speed, but it seemed to only take about 5 minutes to download 138MB file.

My Vegas download was fast<5min but the other downloads are at dialup speeds.

Vegas downloaded in just a couple of minutes, but DVDA was taking so long that I terminated the download and tried again. Then it was a super fast download.

Worley.

>>bizarrely slow downloads

Absolutely! 4KB/s.

Serena .. ditto
I've bailed the download twice so far yet the DVDA4 download was reasonable at around 158K on average...

My thought s,if I have any, some time next week at the current download speed.

Stephen Hope
New Hope Media

This has happened to me a few times - I've stopped the download and started again, and usually it restarts at a decent speed again - sometimes it takes two or three goes.

I guess it depends on exactly how busy the site is at the moment you begin, but that is just a guess ...

If you Galz and Guyz aint using this FREE Download Manager give it a whirl! - It is free . . .

Grazie, if you use Mozilla Firefox, I might also recommend Flashget and the Flashgot Firefox Plug-in combo. Free and ultra-handy.

I haven't actually encountered any of the fixes or enhancements of v7.0b, so I've been relatively quiet on that subject, however, I think we can all appreciate the robustness of this update (roughly 30 notable fix/changes?). That's almost 1 notable change per day since the release of 7.0a; very impressive.