VV3 and Matrox DigiSuite

bakerbud9 wrote on 1/10/2002, 1:50 PM
When will Vegas support the Matrox DigiSuite hardware platform for playback out of the timeline onto a TV monitor? I'm still stuck using Adobe Premiere (yuk) with my DigiSuite because Vegas only supports IEEE hardware but not DigiSuite.

Vegas is such a superior editing package than Premiere. I wish more than anything that it could recognize my DigiSuite hardware and allow me to play 4:2:2 Matrox M-JPEG AVI files directly out of the timeline to an external monitor.

Actually, Vegas recognizes my 4:2:2 Matrox M-JPEG AVI files just fine, and it can even play them in *almost* realtime, even at about 15fps for a cross-dissolve. This is very impressive, and it this is acceptable performance for editing. But, of course, to print the final project to a VTR, I need the realtime playback support of the DigiSuite hardware so that there are no dropped frames.

Sincerely,

Nate Hayes
www.sunfishstudio.com

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SonyEPM wrote on 1/10/2002, 2:02 PM
You won't be able to use the Vegas external monitor or the accelerations in the Digisuite, but you can render to the Digisuite codec in Vegas and print the file with Digitools. Hardly and ideal scenario, but at least you can get the finished program off the machine over SDI or component via the Dsuite.
bakerbud9 wrote on 1/10/2002, 2:26 PM
Hello Sonic,

Yes, I've been experimenting with that process. It seems to work just fine. For small projects, this is actually an acceptable alternative for me. The benefit of editing in Vegas Video outweighs the extra time spent rendering. For feature-length projects, of course, I just simply don't have enough time or disk space. For those projects I will (grudgingly) still need to use Premiere.

Vegas is such a terrific NLE package. I've tried Incite, edit*, Speed Razor, and Premiere, and I think Vegas is better than all of them. I hope one day in the future I will be able to use Vegas with my 4:2:2 DigiSuite system. That would just be the cat's meow.

Sonic Foundry makes the best software in the world. Period.

Sincerely,

Nate Hayes
Sunfish Studio
www.sunfishstudio.com