BMD, AJA or Matrox for Vegas Pro 12 ?

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Zhang,

When I first built my system I had AJA installed, and never got it working. After talking with the AJA folks, it seems they’re all about Mac; couldn’t tell me much about a Windows system.

Replaced it with BMD and all is well.

–Kelly

[Melvin Chong]

Thanks for the reply Kelly.

Which decklink card are you using btw ?

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi,

Sony Vegas Pro is NLE programe so its not necessary to use capture device but if you want to capture dv tapes then you go for capture card or on board firewire capture.

[Mike Calla]

Hey Junhao,

What would like to do? capture? monitor? Print to tape?

[Zhang Junhao]

Thayalan,

Your kind of answer is precisely why Vegas is not highly regarded in the professional video industry.

– Do you monitor your color-correction on your PC screen ?
– Do you check for anomalies on your PC screen when chroma-keying or when applying other effects?
– Can you assure your titles are within safe-area ?

[Zhang Junhao]

All of these.

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi Good Morning,

1)Yes,i calibrate my monitors (ASUS PA246Q) with a SPYDER 3 ELITE.Its best solution for calibrate monitors and recommended by Mr.John Rofrano.

2)For titles,there is option for make safe area on SVP.

[Zhang Junhao]

Dude are you for real ?

[Mike Calla]

I’ve found BMD and aja devices that use pcie cards work well. I’m not at my system now but I have a aja Lh?? card outputting HD to a panny pro plasma that I’ve been using for years.

And I still use FireWire for previewing to JVC pro crt.

And Vegas easily handles HD output to a secondary display via your display card as well.

In response to your questions for Thayalan,

“- Do you monitor your color-correction on your PC screen ?
– Do you check for anomalies on your PC screen when chroma-keying or when applying other effects?
– Can you assure your titles are within safe-area ?”

Yes to all 3, you can calibrate your main editing screen and then do a full screen preview and Vegas will apply the calibration preset. Vegas has guidelines for framing and title areas

[Zhang Junhao]

Hi, Mike

Thanks for your reply. My response to Thayalan was actually in sarcasm.

I prefer to check my video output on a properly calibrated external monitor but I guess most Vegas users don’t judging by the lack of info in here and elsewhere.