vegas 5 with RT2000

videomandw wrote on 10/27/2004, 1:02 PM
Hello,

I have a AMD PC and have been editing with MatroxRT2000/Premiere 5.0 for many years. Tired of all the freezes and crashes. I just purchased Vegas 5.0 and need to know how to install Vegas to work with my RT2000. I just reformatted my WinXP system so it would be a clean install. I also have a small Pinnacle firewire card I can put in instead of the RT2000 but the Pinnacle firewire does not have analog IO. I want to be able to record out to an analog SHVS VCR or preview out to a NTSC monitor. That's why I would like to install the RT2000 with the breakout box to work with VV5.0 if possible. Could someone tell me exact steps I would need to do to get Matrox and VV5.0 to coexist peacefully? Please tell me in easy to follow steps what to do first, second, etc.

Thanks,
David WElch
Shining Star Video Productions

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 10/27/2004, 1:36 PM
No version of Vegas will work with this card in any way*.

*unless there is a patch someplace that allows the card to be used as a purely OHCI IEEE 1394DV card. I don' know if there is such a thing. Sorry-
SeaJohn wrote on 10/27/2004, 5:13 PM
Mr. Sony is right - you can't use them together and get reall time. It is possible to use the card just for its firewire capabilities; I don't remember exactly - Matrox installs some weird driver which you have to uninstall and then reinstall the correct one. It's easier to just get a new firewire card and sell your RT2k on eBay.

I switched from RT2000/Adobe Premiere to VV a couple of years ago, and I haven't been sorry. The stability of Vegas is worth it alone. Overall Vegas is easier to use - there are only 2 or 3 things Premiere does better (snapping and a clip-level motion tool (Pan/Crop doesn't always cut it) come to mind)

Switching to Vegas is easily worth losing the real-time capability.

To get analog out, use a cheapo digital camcorder for pass-through using Vegas' real-time firewire output.