Vegas Video discussions from 2005 (Q1Q2)

[Mark Errante]

This would make the whole point of the matrox card usless then, so is the advantage of faster rendering/capturing given by the card, worth sacrificing for vegas?

[Edward Troxel]

To me, no. To some, yes. The increased workflow and greater stability means more to me than worrying about any rendering that must be done.


Hey Mark, you're only a couple hours away from me! We were in St. Louis last Sunday.

[Peter Sieben]

I also had bought the RTX10 with Premiere 6.5, a couple years ago. A nice deal, but when Vegas 4 came out I switched. The RTX10 was very hardware demanding, and I felt limited to the Matrox effects for Premiere regarding the realtime usage.
Vegas also offers realtime previewing which works very fine with. And the RTX10 doesn't have the fast MPEG2 rendering the RTX100 offers, so for rendering there was no reason the prefer the RTX10/Premiere combo. I have had both systems on my pc for more than a year. But after buying Vegas I never touched Premiere again. At the moment, Premiere and the Matrox card are removed from my system.

[Mark Errante]

If i switched to vegas should I remove the card, orlet it be to use it for anolog stuff?

[Peter Jefferson]

i have a couple of render files which are a perfect example, but i think that the next time i see this, ill do a camtasia capture and get it straight off the timeline..
might be the best way to get this out to sony..

if we cant reproduce it, we can at least show it..
..

[Josh Bass]

So I got some music tracks from a friend, and I find out they're Aiff files, which apparently Vegas 4 can't read (when I try to import them into a project from the hard drive, I get a message about "problem importing blah blah, files are corrupt or of an unrecognized format". Now, I played one of these files, via the QT player, so I know they're okay.

I found some trial software to convert Aif to a variety of formats, so I tried to convert these files to MP3 using it, and when I played the converted, files, it was just noise, like static, all the way through. Apparently I don't know what I'm doing. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp.

[Peter Sieben]

You can keep the card inside for analog capturing. I remember a capture utility from Matrox you can use for that, that I think will work without having to start up Premiere. Check it out for yourself.

[Glenn Chan]

Quicktime Pro can easily convert, but it would cost a small amount of money. RAD Video Tools (shareware; Bink and Smacker) might also be able to do it.

I don't know if they fixed Vegas working with variable bit-rate mp3... personally I'd stick with wav. Constant bitrate mp3 should also work.

Vegas should also be able to import and convert... don't know what's happening there.

[Tony Rockliff]

The free Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - can do this.

[Edward Troxel]

According to Sony's website, Vegas DOES support .AIF files.

It is possible that it uses Quicktime to open those files. Have you installed ALL of QT? (Including the authoring components - requires a "custom" install).

[Edward Troxel]

Personally, for analog captures I still prefer to capture via firewire and use a camera/convertor/deck to do the analog to digital conversion.

[Jeff Bradt]

Can anyone tell me if Vegas has a setting for DV50 or 1:1 rendering? - Thanks, Jeff

[Glenn Chan]

You could render uncompressed (which is 1:1 compression?).

I don't think Vegas has a DVCPRO50 codec or 50mbps codec, but I could be wrong.

[Josh Bass]

Yeah, I would think it would support that format, but every time I tried to import the files, it gave me the weird message.

[Edward Troxel]

If the files are truly NOT corrupt, I would check with tech support about it, then. They may want to see one of the files.

You could also e-mail one to me and I'd try it on my system.