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thief_ wrote on 10/22/2002, 8:43 PM
From a newbie, and from my experience, I think the saying goes:

"The software is to support the hardware"

IE. Most capture-enabled apps, like PhotoShop, Premiere, VV, etc, need twain-drivers to capture video stills, and Firewire (1394) drivers to capture video DV. So, if your software supports twain & Firewire, it will support the hardware that's twain or Firewire compatible!
kkolbo wrote on 10/22/2002, 8:48 PM
I know this isn't an authorized or maybe even proper answer, but ...

>>No matter where I look, it seems every hardware manufacturer that uses digital >>video supports Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro, but not Vegas. I'm just wondering >>why?

Vegas doesn't need any hardware to do its best work. FCP need hardware support to preview at the speed that VV does or even to preview on an external monitor. VV solved these things without the special hardware assists.

As for the 10 bit uncompressed, which I belive is actually 2.5 : 1 compressed, I will let someone else answer that as that is out of the DV realm and I use VV only in the DV realm. I believe there are folks that are using it with Matrox hardware for that.

K
Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/22/2002, 9:05 PM
Hi Asa,

Prior to Vegas, most video apps needed hardware assistance to manipulate video... and most off-the shelf computers (ex. SGI) couldn't handle the data throughput. (That's why Avid was an offline tool for so long.)

With current PC processing power and the popularity of DV formats, a program like Vegas can provide awesome video processing and output, without custom hardware or specialized third-party hardware (and the constant changes to keep-up with either).

This translates to more bang-for-the-buck to the end user. SoFo can focus on better tools for editing instead of trying to handshake with somebody else's buggy boardset (or make one themselves). Users don't have to buy expensive custom designed chipsets on boards that will be obselete in a year or two. PCs keep getting cheaper, better, faster, which helps users get good value and SoFo can count on new computers doing the processing ever faster.


HTH, MPH
PhilStorm wrote on 10/22/2002, 9:24 PM
Hello, my first post here. I have a Storm with Premiere 6.0 & I have d/loaded the demo for Video Vegas 3 & I feel I have been liberated! I wish VV3 has RT drivers for the Storm. What a killer combination that would be!

Regards Phil C.
asafb wrote on 10/22/2002, 10:26 PM
Martyh:

I agree. But with DV, I'm limited. I want better than DV quality. I want uncompressed video in the timeline, digibeta quality, 4:2:2. And I want SDI (Serial digital interface) - this is what all the professional video post-production houses use. Am I wrong? I'd like Vegas to support DigiBeta 4:2:2 not just DV.

Can I theoretically take my uncompressed AVI/Quicktime file and encode to mpeg-2?

Asaf
asafb wrote on 10/22/2002, 10:28 PM
Also, suppose I buy an SDI board for the MAC to capture DigiBeta 4:2:2 and then I save the file (render) as uncompressed Quicktime MOV format. Will Vegas be able to import it?

Asaf
watson wrote on 10/22/2002, 10:52 PM
I guess Sonic Foundry has bet on faster computers making VV more real time as they get better and faster.
I think the pressure should be put on the hardware makers at least to assist better real-time output to NTSC monitor and work with Sonic Foundry to this end if they would allow it.
This alone would get a whole bunch more VV software sold.
That can't be to hard of a programming challenge.

I'm not complaining by a long shot.
My personal mission is to turn as many people on to VV and other Sonic Foundry software to help us all forward the progress of their awesome line of goodies!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
!To all of the Sonic Foundry team!

Regards,
W
DanielH wrote on 10/22/2002, 11:35 PM
Something I think would be really cool would be a card or a compliant firewire card that had support for transparency and color correction, the concept is that there would be no special codec.

Dan
Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/23/2002, 8:44 AM
Hi Asaf,

>>>>I want better than DV quality. I want uncompressed video in the timeline, digibeta quality, 4:2:2. And I want SDI (Serial digital interface) - this is what all the professional video post-production houses use. Am I wrong? I'd like Vegas to support DigiBeta 4:2:2 not just DV.<<<<

You can do this now with a Digisuite board... Capture via SDI & digitools and edit in Vegas. Render to uncompressed AVI and output via Digisuite. (Check T. Duncan's posts over at the COW.)

>>>>Can I theoretically take my uncompressed AVI/Quicktime file and encode to mpeg-2?<<<<

Sure.

>>>>Also, suppose I buy an SDI board for the MAC to capture DigiBeta 4:2:2 and then I save the file (render) as uncompressed Quicktime MOV format. Will Vegas be able to import it?<<<<

Sure, but as above, you don't need a Mac to get there.

FWIW, Lance Bachelder has been working with HD downconverted to DV into Vegas, and reports the quality is excellent. I'm not saying don't go uncompressed, I'm saying the image quality you desire may be also accessible in DV.

HTH, MPH