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V7 works great for me - no problems and the enhancements are really nice.

For the most part it works great for me but I totally cant stand the WMV playback issue. Imports on the timeline fine but when I try to render it to H.264 AVC it takes forever to get going...like 5 minutes...and its all wmvs not just one file.

I never use WMV's as a primary source so that doesn't bother me.

Dave

It seems V7 will not send the correct gamma out to the secondary display - I'm hoping this gets fixed soon.

Yoyodyne - I'm making quite a stretch here, but I noticed in the Release Notes it says you need a 3D accelerated video card to get full screen video on the secondary display. I may be totally wrong, but maybe there's a setting in the video card's driver that will affect the gamma you are seeing.

Thanks Jayster, I did update my vid cards to the latest driver just in case - they are both Nvidia 6800 cards, ones a GT, so they should be plenty powerful enough to crank out the HD goodness. Also the gamma is handled correctly in Vegas 6 - since the Vegas team already has this working I think it accidentaly got broke in V7.

You may be right, I can't verify since I don't have two monitors. I wasn't actually referring to horsepower requirements. Rather, I see in my ATI driver there is an adjustment for gamma when playing video (which only applies for video, not for normal monitor output). Don't know if nVidia has similar settings. More to the point, if V7 is utilizing the actual video driver (for secondary displays) in ways that V6 didn't, then maybe there is something there. But this is pure speculation, just maybe something to try.

Yoyodyne,
Are you equating the RGB conversion issue you and I duplicated as the "gamma" problem? That is definitely different between V6 and V7.

Vic, regarding "soft", I have noticed a big difference now between Best/Auto and Best/Full. I'm not sure if it is V7-specific, but my secondary display (TV via DVI) with Best/Full is drastically sharper. Best/Auto doesn't cut it anymore. Plus at Best/Full with m2t HDV at 29.970, Wow! I may have been missing something in V6???

Actually, I haven't even had time to even capture in V7 yet, so my verdict is still out. But i do like the 5.1 surround audio DVD import. Nice to know that importing a 5.1 DVD I created, I can pull the full audio back.

I like it a lot. I use it mostly for Audio mixing and mastering in my professional day job and for video editing for my own private passion (www.unlearning.org).

This version is fast and sleek. I have only one bug to report and that is I have not been able to get V7 to play .MOV files on the timeline. They import fine, and i can see them in the preview window and my external monitor, but only on the frame that the edit line is over. When I press play, the preview freezes (but the program doesn't crash). I can move the edit line to other points on the clip, but the same thing happens no matter where I place it.

V6 had no problems with.MOV files. I'm hoping this bug can be fixed in 7b.

yep fldave, the RGB conversion issue - I'm not sure what to call it :)

Just noticed 1 thing so far: at first I thought it is by design, they decided to remove it, but then I realise the percentage reading in the lower right corner of a time-stretched audio event is now missing, contrary to what the help says.

Edit: kindly helped by bStro in another post I made, realise my own slip-up, it is just 'Active Take Information' not turned on (which, I think, is enabled by default in v6 and below?), my boo-boo, sorry..