Upgrade pricing

D7K wrote on 7/24/2017, 11:03 AM

I hope it's $200 for the Vegas owners. But if a new suite with Samplitude was offered for say $350 I jump on it. I don't burn DVD/BR but do miss have my video and DAW working together seamlessly. I am looking forward to an increase in the ability to use every once of my system's power to drive rendering and working on the timeline. And while Vegas has some great tools for sound editing, sound creation is such a big part of any video/film that having a good DAW with seamless integration would be a competitive advantage for the selling to the "one man band" shop.

I wonder how much advantage in speed one can get with a current system. Can we expect to see 100% usage of GPU RAM, System Ram, and band width on SSDs? If so would this mean that 8K could be come a usable standard by the next Olympics?

As a retired person with a video/music studio I am somewhat limited in how much I can spend or how much equipment my studio space can hold. Trying to find the sweat spot where performance and cost is maximized is of course hard. And I guess that what has me excited about the performance increase in Vegas 15 as while not exactly free lunch it appears that it is one way to really leverage the current tools I have. Anything that gives more time is for me a worthwhile investment.

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john_dennis wrote on 7/24/2017, 11:38 AM

"If so would this mean that 8K could be come a usable standard by the next Olympics?"

Whether the 2020 Olympics is shot in 8K or not, I'm almost certain to watch it on my local NBC affiliate station at 1920x1080 29.97 interlaced encoded in MPEG-2 at less than 19.3 Mbps. If my grand daughter is in the 2024 Olympics, I'll watch it in person. (With my vision, it will be less than 8K.)

I rarely speculate on upgrade pricing.

NormanPCN wrote on 7/24/2017, 12:51 PM

"If so would this mean that 8K could be come a usable standard by the next Olympics?"

Whether the 2020 Olympics is shot in 8K or not, I'm almost certain to watch it on my local NBC affiliate station at 1920x1080 29.97 interlaced encoded in MPEG-2 at less than 19.3 Mbps.

19.3 *if* you receive the over the air broadcast and they are not transmitting any subchannels at the time. Sadly, cable and satellite re-compress the signal even further to maximize the number of channels to fit within their bandwidth.

john_dennis wrote on 7/24/2017, 3:02 PM

Sadly, the promise of glorious HD video has been subverted by subchannels. The whole world seems to think more is better than good until nothing is as good as it could/should be. There is no local station in my area anymore that only broadcasts one stream.

Red Prince wrote on 7/24/2017, 5:10 PM

The whole world seems to think more is better than good until nothing is as good as it could/should be. There is no local station in my area anymore that only broadcasts one stream.

I doubt it is because they think more is better. Rather, more streams come with more advertising and, therefore, more income for the station.

john_dennis wrote on 7/24/2017, 6:20 PM

I'm certain you're correct.

fr0sty wrote on 7/24/2017, 9:54 PM

Over the air broadcasts will be obsolete before long. Online is replacing the need for it. I would imagine eventually the stations will just go online and that bandwidth will go to the telecoms.