Funny. Last week I wasn't looking at all for a new NLE. I was reasonably satisfied with my Premiere/Canopus DVStorm combo. But while researching for ways/product combos to upgrade my DVD production tools, and after having read rave reviews for Vegas 3, let alone the evolving buzz for Vegas 4, I decided to look into the Vegas 4 +DVD combo, mainly for its AC-3 audio and DVD app features. After reading up on and playing with the demo of the product for the last few days, I'm BEYOND impressed.
The only thing stopping me right now from plunking down the $ and scooping this bundle of joy up is the thought of abandoning all that wonderful RT multi-track/filter/transition performance that I get with the DVStorm board anchoring Premiere and the fact that with a hardware codec on the card I get live DV out directly from the timeline. Any thing that can be played in timeline without requiring a render can go directly out to tape in only the time it takes to hit "record" on the DVCR and the space bar on the computer. That means a lot of very ubiquitous filters like color correction, luminance, PiP, and chroma-keying filters and some favorite transitions, like customizeable alpha wipes, perform in realtime.
If I understand correctly, in Vegas I would have to prerender all such passages before getting DV output, requiring not only rendering time but, more significantly IMO, substantial additional disk space.
So my question is, since Vegas is obviously the greatest NLE to hit the PC platform for anything under several thousand dollars, has there been any move to integrate it with a firewire board (with hardware DV codec) so that true realtime performance and live DV output comparable to Storm and other hardware NLE systems could be achieved?
If not, let me just say that I'm SHOCKED that no hardware manufacturer has tried to hitch their wagon to this amazing product (or that Sonic Foundry hasn't pursued it). If teamed with a Canopus board, for example, nothing on any platform within several grand of the price could touch it, including the somewhat over-hyped, over-rated FCP.
So is their imminent hope for a hardware acceleration solution for Vegas or is that just a pipe dream?
Elizabeth Lowrey
Amore Productions
The only thing stopping me right now from plunking down the $ and scooping this bundle of joy up is the thought of abandoning all that wonderful RT multi-track/filter/transition performance that I get with the DVStorm board anchoring Premiere and the fact that with a hardware codec on the card I get live DV out directly from the timeline. Any thing that can be played in timeline without requiring a render can go directly out to tape in only the time it takes to hit "record" on the DVCR and the space bar on the computer. That means a lot of very ubiquitous filters like color correction, luminance, PiP, and chroma-keying filters and some favorite transitions, like customizeable alpha wipes, perform in realtime.
If I understand correctly, in Vegas I would have to prerender all such passages before getting DV output, requiring not only rendering time but, more significantly IMO, substantial additional disk space.
So my question is, since Vegas is obviously the greatest NLE to hit the PC platform for anything under several thousand dollars, has there been any move to integrate it with a firewire board (with hardware DV codec) so that true realtime performance and live DV output comparable to Storm and other hardware NLE systems could be achieved?
If not, let me just say that I'm SHOCKED that no hardware manufacturer has tried to hitch their wagon to this amazing product (or that Sonic Foundry hasn't pursued it). If teamed with a Canopus board, for example, nothing on any platform within several grand of the price could touch it, including the somewhat over-hyped, over-rated FCP.
So is their imminent hope for a hardware acceleration solution for Vegas or is that just a pipe dream?
Elizabeth Lowrey
Amore Productions