The little bit I have played with it, the processor no longer runs at 100% during render, 50 % on both one is high and one is low. Put about 1.5 hour file on the timeline with another 3.8 hour file and it started to choke up on the memory. Using default settings on render with 4 gig ram, AMD 4600 DUAL CORE. I'm happy with it so far but haven't tried any HDV yet. I do not use media manager.
The processor runs at 51% on the hard stuff and 100 % on the easy stuff.
JJK
I installed it and am happy, although I haven't used it too much (still use Vegas 5.0d for most things, since I don't use HDV). I mostly use Vegas 6 at the end of the project to render, both because of the slightly faster render engine and because of the nested VEG capability (I can put all my projects together and render as a single MPEG-2 for DVD output).
A big YES if you do photo montages with lots of photos. The render bug has been squished. I use 6.0c all the time and it’s been very stable. I say go for it.
Just being able to rip a dvd is worth it. I really hope Sony comes out with some sort of an advanced effects editing feature soon. That would be great!!!!
Export to PSP means I can skip an intermediate render to avi (huge time saver) before converting to PSP video format. The little features make it a great update.
I'm really happy with it now doing one hdv project 1.0 hrs and one standard project 1.5 hrs. I bang on these projects all day long and the only problems experienced were hitting the wrong keys or the wrong envelope. Do not use media manager or .net 2.0.
There is a confirmed bug that nested Veg files import at the (very) wrong duration if you have markers on the timeline.
If you need nested timelines *and* the use of markers, don't update. Otherwise, do. Version 6.0c certainly seems to have eliminated more issues than it introduced.