Hi,

From the uk. I absolutely love the interace and facilities of Vegas. We use Vegas for pure audio applications as well as video. It absolutely rocks. The only thing that I would like to discuss, and this may well be addressed by sheer computing power and disk/media playback speed over the coming years, is how to use the Vegas interface to edit uncompressed or higher than DV quality, video.

Assuming that I can capture the video (?)as an less/uncompressed avi that Vegas can read how will it play it back? (Anyone have any thoughts on this?) Would a scsi disk array provide the speed required? Is there a threshold of CPU speed required?

Would members of the forum maybe edit with a compressed set of files then replace them with uncompressed files which would then be intergrated into the project and then render them as uncompressed but then how would you lay it back?

This posting also once again begs the question of the qualitative differences between formats. I understand that DV and DVCam have virtually the same picture quality the main difference being the way audio is better synced and a more robust tape.

I use Vegas for everything I do from Web to Broadcast, the results are fine for everything but would like to be able to 'up the ante for/to certain people by saying yes I can capture component, edit it and then lay it back....

Any thoughts? Are we talking semantics?

Thanks

Alex