What Won't VV 2.x do?

eupher_61 wrote on 5/14/2001, 8:12 PM
I'm getting ready to buy the new big machine and add Vegas
Video to my production facility, such as it is. But, the
boss wants to know...What WON'T this package do?
I've read horror stories about not being able to view until
things are totally rendered, and also being unable to drop
onto tape IF transitions etc ARE rendered. I don't really
believe either of these, but in general..what are
shortcomings that you see? I'm not looking to knock the
package at all, rather to support the fact that it IS what
I need.
My gig is at a college, right now I do nothing NLE at all.
Production is by no means my whole job, but one aspect I
want to build. We've gone through Avid nightmares, did the
Toaster scene long ago, and I've resorted to doing nothing
but linear VHS lately, due to horrible luck with the other
systems. Vegas Video seems to be the answer, since Sonic
Foundry has been so good for us. I'm certainly neither a
PC head nor a video-head, but I have enough skills and
knowledge all around to be dangerous!
Thanks!
Oh, and, what do you see as the best aspects of the
software?
-ruavdude

Comments

FadeToBlack wrote on 5/14/2001, 9:11 PM
jboy wrote on 5/15/2001, 2:27 PM
If you haven't purchased a firewire card yet, I'd recommend
Pinnacle Studio DV, (around$75-$80). The software is great,
very intuitive, and they have a great support forum-(check
it out @ www.pinnaclesys.com) Also, their capture and
output modules seem to work better than those provided by
VV, judging by the number of problems people report on this
forum. To be fair, many NLE apps seem to have a lot of
trouble with their capture and output functions. VV
integrates great w/Studio, it's a great combo..
SonyEPM wrote on 5/15/2001, 3:42 PM
Don't install the Pinnacle drivers or dv codec if you get
this card- true OHCI cards should be talking to the Windows
driver and nothing else.
Caruso wrote on 5/17/2001, 2:27 AM
No disrespect meant towards SonicEPM, but, in my
experience, I'd have to agree with JBOY that the combo of
SDV and VV make a great team, SDV for trouble-free capture
(you may capture at full resolution or use their smart
capture which captures at less than full resolution to save
space, you then do a rough edit, and recapture at full res
only that portion of the source tape you actually want to
incorporate into your project . . . a great space saver
that works well on my system) and seamless output to tape,
VV for the editing and assembly. Vegas Video, as you
probably already know, allows almost unlimited flexibility
in pulling together multi-media elements, audio (unlimited
tracks), video (unlimited tracks), graphics, text, you name
it.

Once rendered in VV, I then import the finished avi project
onto the SDV timeline for final output to tape.

Works well on my system, and, I do have the Pinnacle
drivers installed. Once those drivers are installed, they
seem to crowd out anyother video drivers, and, I'm not
certain if that's a problem with the Pinnacle drivers, or
the Windows drivers, or some weakness in selection control
within the current version of Vegas.

Bottom line is that the drivers are now working fine for me
in both programs.

I'd suggest trying VV without the Pinnacle drivers to see
how it works for you (it has not worked well for me after
many system rebuilds, adjustments, etc). If it works, then
you won't need Pinnacle.

If it doesn't work for you, I would not hesitate to install
and use the Pinnacle software (am I am not aware of a way
to install SDV without installing its drivers).

I would take care to set up your program so that the
prospect of having to perform a complete system restore
does not become a "life-threatening" choice for you. I
keep all my important data (for me, financial stuff,
business documents, etc) safe and secure on a physical
drive separate from my video and my operating systems so
that, if I need to rid my system of the Pinnacle stuff, I
can simply restore my OS and Pinnacle is wiped away.

IMHO, both programs are excellent in different, but
complimentary ways. You will find both quite useful.

Good luck.

Caruso
SonyEPM wrote on 5/17/2001, 8:25 AM
If it works, use it!
akg wrote on 5/17/2001, 3:48 PM
VV is the best program for NLE !!
It`s fast and powerful ,very very great !!
but it`s also have some prodlem Like GG say !!
and it support few chinese text !!
Transitions is few !!!
But I still love it !!
jboy wrote on 5/18/2001, 2:42 PM
RE: removing the SDV codecs; I believe that after version 1.5 and later,none of Pinnacles codecs, (found in control panel>multimedia>devices>video codecs) are required for functioning,(the program actually uses some kind of Windows codec) I use the MainConcept codec which by my own experience and everything I've heard is a great cross-platform very compatible piece of software. Also agree w/caruso 100% on the compatability of SDV and VV. One can use SDV as sort of a simple nle sketch pad to work out ideas, then import files into VV for more sophisticated foolery. SDV is an excellent little program with all of the major bugs worked out of it, as long as your not using any of the problem motherboard/chipset combo's, and a real bargain at the prices being charged on the web.