Vegas 6.0b and BMD HD card.

farss wrote on 6/3/2005, 1:05 AM
One of the local Vegas using post houses rang me with an interesting discovery. They'd been running 6.0 on their new turbo charged PC with a BMD HD card, since the upgrade to 6.0b the BMD supplied utilities no longer work, it seems perhaps that Vegas had replaced the BMD drivers with it's own.
Anyone know anything about this, it's not exactly a major drama for them but it'd be nice to know what's going on.
Needless to say the other issue that came up was their rather expensive BMD card can handle 8 channels of audio, pity that Vegas doesn't support that. This is pretty sad really for a NLE that was built on top of an existing audio app. Multichannel audio is vital to anyone in a serious production environment. Is this issue ever likely to get that attention it deserves?
Bob.

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ForumAdmin wrote on 6/3/2005, 6:30 AM
I am using the BMD Decklink HD card with Vegas 6.0b. All of the Decklink utilities (capture app, speed test) definitely continue to work.

Has the post house that rang you up with this interesting discovery contacted either our, or BMD's, tech support department?

farss wrote on 6/3/2005, 5:19 PM
No they haven't!
But if as you say they should still work I'll get them to dig a little deeper. They're also having an issue with one frame being dropped exactly once per second during capture from DigiBeta. I'd suggested to them this could well be some Windoz background task getting in the way that they need to turn off, it's a brand new PC so that seemed the most logical explaination. Based on what you've said there maybe something else wrong.
Will check and let you know.
You might be interested to know this is their third Vegas suite, you guys must be doing something right as this company is no backyard operation, Vegas and DVDA has met almost all of their needs to date, V6 and the BMD cards should mean all their needs are being met, all they need are support for more than than two channels of audio down SDI and 10 bit output!
Bob.
musman wrote on 6/3/2005, 8:18 PM
I'm right there with you in wanting more complete integration with digibeta stuff and 10bit. It's in directions like these and towards DVC Pro HD support that I'd like to see Vegas going. More formats supported + more ability to talk to other programs = more Vegas suites and sales. Or at least that what I would think would happen.
farss wrote on 6/3/2005, 9:52 PM
Well I'm not that much of a fan of DVCPro anything, it's not that common down here, but if others need it then I'd be the last one to stand in their way. Certainly there's an upside to it being integrated with Vegas, without it Vegas looks too much like it's a Sony only product and kind of makes the competition between FCP and Vegas look like a defacto Sony Vs Panasonic battle which we all know would be a plain dumb spin to put on it as Vegas was the first NLE to offer decent support for the DVX100 but we all know what the spin doctors are like!