Vegas in high-end productions?

rs170a wrote on 1/27/2005, 6:31 AM

The following post was on a video forum that I subscribe to and I'd love to be able to point out to (one in particular who quotes Walter Murch all the time) Mac users that Vegas can & does make the cut.
Specific examples greatly appreciated.

The question:
"Final Cut Pro boasts that it is used in the Professional Movie industry. From TV to Network Commercials to Hollywood Movies (at least in part of these projects).
Does anyone know if SonyPictures Vegas Video can make similar claims?
I personally feel it is a superior product or at least at par with FCP as far as features & Audio/Video Quality.
If there is anyone out there on the inside and knows what claims to fame Vegas Video can make I would like to hear from them."

Mike

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mrjhands wrote on 1/28/2005, 1:15 AM

"Vegas can read the Avid AVI or QuickTime reference files with no issues so I can see the Avid edit and mix the audio in a program I feel is better than ProTools"

SO GLAD there's someone else who isn't afraid put ProTools beneath Vegas for audio editing

farss wrote on 1/28/2005, 1:42 AM

As far as I know XPRI is doing very nicely and integrates extremely well with Vegas. I agree though Sony have never had a good name with editing systems but everyone whose got an XPRI seems to rave about it. Not exactly cheap though but then nor is anything else in its class. Well when it comes to HiDef seems there is nothing else in its class.
Bob.

farss wrote on 1/28/2005, 1:48 AM

Funny how everyone complains about render times, late last year I spent some time working through a project with an audio guy that'd been done in Protools. Nothing difficult, just lots of hours of narration 16/44.1K audio. I asked him to copy the rendered files onto DVDs for me. No way, he said it was 24 hours of audio and it'd take 24 hours to render!
Just in case you didn't get it, that's right, no vision, just audio and the best he could manage was real time.
Now funny thing is I've never heard anyone say Protools (aka slowtools) isn't professional because of how long it takes to render.
Bob.

B_JM wrote on 1/28/2005, 4:58 AM

pro-tools has some really good plug-ins ..... there are things though that it just cant do without jumping through hoops - that you can do in vegas very easy ....

i'm actually working right now with a Digidesign VENUE -- which is one very sweet console ...

btw -- a shocker, it runs embedded windows XP internally. http://www.digidesign.com/products/venue/

farss wrote on 1/28/2005, 5:59 AM

I'll tell you a good story about computer based desks. Euphonics are pretty big down here and lots of their stuff went into OB vans until one day OSX decided it needed a reload and the world lost audio for 11 minutes during a golf tournament. So the story goes they've since ripped out all the computer based desks and gone back to basics, the sort of stuff you can switch on and be live to air in 1 second.
That's no sleight on OSX either.
Bob.

JJKizak wrote on 1/28/2005, 6:06 AM

Farss: When you say not exactly cheap that means $83,000.00 for XPRI.

JJK

rs170a wrote on 1/28/2005, 6:42 AM

Thanks to all for your responses. This was definitely an interesting thread.
BTW, I posted the link to TIm Duncan's article to the forum last night and the Mac user's response was (in part):
It sounds interesting and obviously Vegas has a lot of capabilities...

He did go on to make several positive comments about Vegas so I can't slam him for that. What I see as the bottom line in all of this is that there are a lot more hardware options immediately available for FCP than there are for Vegas which is why it is where it is in the industry. Whether that will change for Vegas in the future or not is anybody's guess. Maybe NAB will have some surprises for us?

Mike