thank God I'm still with SD and V7

mel58i wrote on 4/10/2008, 6:44 AM

I have read a lot in the forums about HD and V8 and many are having problems. Why is it that the pro's have to resort to tweaks and battle with a Vegas version that doesn't work all that well?
Seems to me akin to Pinnacle and all the problems that it brought.
Why should we have to become software engineers and system analyists.
I'm very happy with V7 and have no desire to shoot HD. Perhaps I might one of these days when the technology is watertight and I can class myself as simply as a "videographer" - put good stuff in and get good stuff out !
Until then I'm quite happy sticking to well tested stuff.

Mel.

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Laurence wrote on 4/17/2008, 7:34 PM

Will Raylight do 1920 x 1080? How about ten instead of 8 bit color? My Cineform NeoHDV maxes out at 1440 x 1080 x 8bit color.

Laurence wrote on 4/17/2008, 8:00 PM

Also, will Raylight smart-render like Cineform?

bsuratt wrote on 4/18/2008, 3:03 PM

dogwalker touches on subject of being able to watch your own HDV productions at home while waiting for reasonably priced delivery (Blu-Ray, etc). I have found the multimedia video "jukeboxes" by TVIX (www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/5100sh.aspx) work amazing well and at a reasonable price. You can store media, video files, audio files, or image files on an internal hard drive or you can stream over CAT 5 LAN from your PC to the box. The player is a standalone unit that hooks via HDMI to your HDTV and has a menu screen consisting of folders and filenames you pick from.

Pix quality is excellent. (Blows me away to see flawless 1080i HDV streaming over CAT 5! It just can't be possible!)

I have the model 4100.

John_Cline wrote on 4/18/2008, 3:08 PM

"(Blows me away to see flawless 1080i HDV streaming over CAT 5! It just can't be possible!)"

HDV is 25 megabits/sec, this is easily transported over a 100 megabit network via CAT-5 cable.

bsuratt wrote on 4/18/2008, 3:21 PM

John,

Guess I'm showing my age. I came from the era where video always travelled over coax,,, twisted pair was for telephones!

kairosmatt wrote on 4/18/2008, 5:20 PM

"Will Raylight do 1920 x 1080? How about ten instead of 8 bit color? My Cineform NeoHDV maxes out at 1440 x 1080 x 8bit color."

I'm pretty sure it doesn't do 10 bit.

For the resolution, if I render out of Vegas and use either codec for AVI, can't I set the resolution to whatever I want? I'm away from my computer, so I'll check this out.

But straight from the HVX, I believe it records in 1280 x 1080, so thats what raylight converts to. Again, I'll have to check all this out on my editing computer.

Serena wrote on 4/18/2008, 5:54 PM

>>>My Cineform NeoHDV maxes out at 1440 x 1080 x 8bit color<<<

Laurence, I'm sure you know (but just in case!) it reads that you would like NEO HD, but surely you wouldn't have any need when sourcing from the Z7?

Laurence wrote on 4/18/2008, 7:44 PM

Yes I know, most of the time Neo HDV is exactly what I need, but there are a few occasions when I could use the extra features of the more expensive Cineform packages.

1/ Alpha layer. I would just love to be able to do Alpha layers so that I could do titles in Bluff Titler and save them in a format other than uncompressed.

2/ 1924x1080. All my raw footage is HDV and at 1440x1080, but I animations, titles and moving pictures could make use of the extra resolution.

3/ 10 bit color: No use to me right now, but hopefully some day soon Vegas will catch up and give up the archaic VFW approach.

I would have already upgraded if it wasn't so darned expensive.