Questions from a newbie

T_MAC wrote on 8/3/2004, 7:16 PM
Greetings all,

I am getting ready make the move to Sony Vegas5+DVD and will probably become a regular on this forum very soon if my research shows that this program will meet all of my needs.

A few questions I have is,
How is the quality of slow motion with Vegas? Is it smooth and fluid?
Does the image quality hold up well, or does it studder and lose resolution?

I am trying to find the right computer to run this program. I have been looking at the Sony VAIO PCV-RA710G. Am I correct or naive in assuming that since Vegas 5 and Sony VAIO both carry the Sony name, then they would probably work well together and be compatible?

I am sure I will have many questions to come.

Thanks in advance!

T MAC

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/3/2004, 7:26 PM
Vegas' slow motion has been rated one of the best. It requires some tweaking of de-interlacing and resampling to get it to look good, but once you're there it's fantastic.

Don't worry too much about which hardware to get. Vegas is pretty much hardware agnostic and will run on almost anything that will handle Windows XP. Get the fastest processor and the most RAM you can manage, and put in as much hard drive space as you can afford (and you will want more later, no matter how much you start with). Most DVD burners are supported. Make sure the firewire port/card is OHCI compliant. Other than that, indulge yourself in whatever you prefer.

And as far as both Vegas and Vaio being SONY, remember that SONY is a huge conglomerate. The consumer electronics branch and the media software branch have very little idea of what each other are doing. For that matter, most Vaio models ship with a competitor's video editing software already installed. Go figger.
T_MAC wrote on 8/3/2004, 7:49 PM
It requires some tweaking of de-interlacing and resampling to get it to look good, but once you're there it's fantastic.

Is this something that can be done as a default set up, or does it have to be done every time you want to slo mo a video clip?

T MAC
Chienworks wrote on 8/3/2004, 7:57 PM
Generally the defautls work ok. But depending on how much motion you have in your clip you may have to choose a different de-interlace method. So it's pretty much clip by clip. Usually it only takes a few seconds to get it right. If necessary, you can even select different deinterlace methods for different parts of the same clip!
JaysonHolovacs wrote on 8/3/2004, 9:02 PM
Chienworks,
Under what circumstances do you generally need to do this? I've done slowmo by stretching in Vegas and never noticed any undesirable behavior. Of course, maybe I don't know what to look for. My stuff is generally interlaced source(DV) to interlaced output(DVD).

-Jayson
cervama wrote on 8/4/2004, 9:23 AM
How do you do de interlace?