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vegas + DVD for $399???
Hello all,
I’ve been considering giving Vegas a try due to all the great things I’ve been reading about it on this forum. Videoguys.com has it listed for $399. Is this for the full blown version or am I missing something?
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Is this the link?
https://www.videoguys.com/vegasvideo.htmlIt certainly look like it.
Edward Troxel
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That price just seemed really cheap. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Is it worth getting Sound Forge bundled with it or are there plenty of audio tools within Vegas?
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…are there plenty of audio tools within Vegas?
Vegas does have a lot of audio tools with it – but you can never have enough 🙂
Sound Forge is another excellent tool to have in your arsenal. It’s capabilities go far beyond what Vegas is capable of as auido is the only thing it does – and it does that very well.
The link Edward posted from Videoguys gives you both Sound Forge AND Noise Reduction for an extra $200. When you consider that these apps separately would cost almost $600, I’d say buy it. That’s a fantastic package price!! Even if you don’t use all the features right away, you’ll have them when you eventually need them. -
Wow, I didn’t realize Noise Reduction was an additional program. I thought it was just part of Sound Forge. A few months ago when I started contemplating a new NLE purchase, I think Vegas + DVD was about $700, so I was very surprised to see it for $400. I currently use Avid (Pinnacle) Liquid Edition and I’m ready to see what else is out there.
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The price of the Noise Reduction package has scared away a lot of folks.
Apps like Audition have something similar built into it. Is Sound Forge any better? I have no idea as it’s all I’ve ever used and it works for me.I think you’ll like working with Vegas. I come from a dpsVelocity background myself and found Vegas to be a bit confusing at first. Once I learned it though, I rarely go back to the other software.
If you have any questions, ask them and you’ll get answers very quickly as folks here are very helpful.
BTW, Edward Troxel’s newsletters are a great resource, especially if you’re new to Vegas. -
Vegas 7 comes out in the fall so don’t be surprised to see deals. I was standing in line for food at NAB and a Sony employee was talking to his buddy. He didn’t realize I was a user. The only thing I got was that handling DXCAM footage would be in it. I specifically asked if it would be 10 bit. He said he wasn’t sure but could not say.
JerryW
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[JerryW] ” I was standing in line for food at NAB and a Sony employee was talking to his buddy. He didn’t realize I was a user.”
As they said during WWII: “Loose lips sink ships”!
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Well now the news is out I guess I can mention the following. I did post this a few weeks back but the post got pulled. Ron L asked Sony and they said it would be better to pull it until the announcements were made at NAB, fair enough as they are Cow supporters.
To cut a long story short we attended the release of the Sony XDCam HD cameras here in Sydney. During the course of the day they showed us a Power Point slide show which mentioned that Vegas 7 would be released in Sept and would support the XDCam HD series. Would have FAM (file access mode) over firewire for these cameras and support the 18 and 35 Mbps VBR modes of XDCam HD. Plus obviously the 25 Mbps FBR mode which makes it compatible with HDV from Sony as we know it. It was also suggested that Vegas would most likely support the ‘proxy video’ that is recorded concurrently with the high rez video on the HD cams using Blu-Ray. Allowing editing of the proxy material and then conforming when finished using the hi res XDCam HD footage. A bit like using intermediary files in HDV editing I guess. They also stated that there were a couple of Sony Media software engineers over in Japan working with the camera factories to develop much tighter integration between Vegas and new Sony camera hardware. No mention of 10 bit though.
A few of us suggested it might be great if they could pass on to Sony our wish to see if Vegas could support the growing power of the GPU processors that are now becoming more popular on a lot of the PCIe graphics card. If this power could be harnessed for real-time preview and rendering it could make a huge difference to Vegas performance across the board.
Interesting times ahead me thinks!
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CYV Productions
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Thanks for the info. The guy was a little shocked when I asked him the question. I wouldn’t want to get him in trouble.
To me, NAB seemed a little wierd this year. Nothing new about Vegas, the big countdown to “Red” turned out to be a tent labeled “Under development” and no product. There was a cool camera that CineForm helped develop that is 2K and captures RAW footage (which I thought was a great idea – there were 11 f stops built in). The camera was at Adobe and the CineForm rep there said since it was a large single cmos sensor the data files are actually smaller than the ones coming out of my Z1.
One of the most inventive things I saw was a good sized hdraulic crane with great controls and features that used canola oil. The inventor, a guy from Canada, said he did it because there was no danger if anything spilled. It was edible and worked well. A buddy and I were looking at it. We asked the price. I was expecting the usual $20,000. The price – $2,400. The guy that built it was a mechanic. The link, for those interested, is http://www.dycortech.com They said they had sold 10 at the show. Someone bought one while we were there.
JerryW
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No such thing as http://www.dycortech.com ?
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