Thinking About Using Neo Cineform vs Gearshift?

Tomsde wrote on 7/28/2009, 5:22 AM

I was thinking of buying Neo Cineform to transcode my AVCHD footage. Does it work with Vegas Pro 9 well? Will it work with Vista 64 bit?

I was also thinking of buying Gearshift. Anyone using that with Veags 9? I have AVCHD upshift but it will not work with my 64 bit Vista laptop.

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Barefoot Joe wrote on 7/28/2009, 10:31 AM

Neoscene is working well with Vista 64 here. Can't comment on Gearshift. Cineform Neoscene has a 1 week trial...give it a shot. Make sure to read the audio section in the manual if your camera records with 5.1.

Laurence wrote on 7/28/2009, 11:04 AM

Cineform Neo is a great product. Another good option is to use a script which lets you batch convert and convert your AVCHD footage into XDCAM mxf. I use Ultimate-S for this, but there are a number of other good options as well. XDCAM footage will give you much smaller files than Cineform (but bigger than AVCHD), but Vegas handles them extremely well. They smart-render and still look very good after a couple of generations. A good script like Ultimate-S has many other uses as well.

vtxrocketeer wrote on 7/28/2009, 1:28 PM

I just started using Cineform Neoscene on Vista 64 Ultimate. Works a treat.

I like the editing experience so much (Vegas 8.0c, haven't tried 9.0x) -- the CF avi files, that is -- that I'm not going back to editing my m2t files on the timeline ever again. Additionally, for some reason I can't figure out (yet), renders to Blu-ray format from CF source clips on the timeline also work SO much smoother for me, e.g., no crashes, hangs, unexpected closing of Vegas. It just works great.

Steve

Laurence wrote on 7/28/2009, 2:30 PM

Check out http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=664121&Replies=44this[/link] thread.

Tomsde wrote on 7/28/2009, 6:00 PM

Thanks for your input. I have AVCHD Upshift, but I'm not sure that the results are the same. I downloaded the demo for Cineform Neo to my laptop and the playback is better than the regular AVCDH file. AVCHD Upshift won't work with Vista 64 bit; so I'm thinking that this may be a better solution. Anyone try both? Which do you think is better. I have a 32 bit Vista desktop running an i7 Processor, I'm afraid that my 1.8 gig Core 2 Duo just won't cut it on my laptop to edit this type of video, transcoded or not.