Question from Chile...

chaparro wrote on 1/1/2005, 1:40 PM

Hi everybody, anybody knows what video render cards like matrox or canopus works fine with VEGAS, i have been looking for tihs kind of video card and can't get information about this...any information is welcome to my emial chaparrocristian@gmail.com

I need works with a realtime video render card...thanks!

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 1/1/2005, 1:49 PM

Vegas doesn't support any kind of hardware render card. It renders only via software.

chaparro wrote on 1/1/2005, 2:05 PM

Thanks a lot...is not a good news :-( I really hope developer team makes a version with support for rendering by hardware....professionals need this.

farss wrote on 1/1/2005, 2:20 PM

Professionals THINK they need this but in fact it can work against you. Remember Vegas is format agnostic and supports unlimited video tracks.
No hardware board supports that, even ignoring the format issue, eventually hardware runs out of horsepower, read the hardware specs carefully, you'll find serious limitations.
You're much better off spending the money on fast CPUs and disks and a bit of time optimising the OS. Once you;ve done that you can edit ANY format. Imagine if you'd spent a motza on hardware assist and along comes HDV, it's all useless to you. If you'd spent your money on CPU power you're sweet.
Bob.

Hitime wrote on 1/11/2005, 10:16 AM

Been researching this recently. I think hardware is required for HDV not really for DV. Having said that quite a lot of my DV stuff is done in eduis/DVStorm because of the hardware support! I am hoping I can concentrate more on Vegas in the future, when I upgrade. It would be great if Sony brought together Vegas with their pro hardware.

busterkeaton wrote on 1/11/2005, 2:51 PM

chaparro, have you looked into network rendering? Each license of Vegas also includes two network render modes and you can buy more if you need to. I believe you need a very good network for good performance though. You can also set up network rendering on a single box.

Also do you edit in mutiple instances of Vegas? This is a way you can really speed up your editing. For example, you start your credit sequences to rendering while continuing to edit the show in a different instance of Vegas. If you have tight deadlines, this should be the way you think of your projects.