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I Can’t Sing Anymore
Oh dear,
I used to sing about Vegas and what a wonderful tool it is but, as late, I am finding it hard to fight in it’s corner. I have finished shooting a 20 episode doc for Nat Geo and wanted to use some clips for a promo. One clip is 27 minutes long (as it was fly on the wall) and YET AGAIN, I’m stuck as wonderful 8.0c doesn’t take XDCAM-HD clips longer than about 15 minutes.Why not go back to 7.0? Because the rest of the project has been saved under 8.0c. So now I have to get the camera and take the footage in as AVI in real time. Quite frankly, this is bollocks. This is NOT professional and does nothing for my work flow. The problem has been verified by Sony and is on their “list” but how long for a fix?
So I take a trip out to play with FCP… and I find my song changing. Vegas is looking tired and dated with few enhancements and progression between versions. I have used Vegas for years but it seems it has lagged too far behind the competition for too long both in features and more importantly, support. If Sony can’t support their OWN file formats then there’s not much hope.
Little rant over.
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Well….i won’t stop singing..lol
Vegas is not perfect and has drawbacks just like every NLE
out there…And if i find vegas unable to do a task,
(there are some)…dont bother me, i just use a next tool
to fill the gap. Doesn’t mean Vegas is going down the tube.If you start singing for FCP…you will soon be singing for
another….then another….because none is perfect.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
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You are very right to feel the way you do and one would expect that is you buy brand A that any else with that brand should work seamlessly. Sorry that is just not the case. Let me explain further.
I too own a Sony Camera/software/a few other Sony products. I always thought same company, should all work together. They don’t and here is why.
The people who invent the hardware are not the same people who develop the software. There are entirely different parts of the same company but not the same function. I learned this after a 3 month on going dispute with Sony tech and finally the actual developers. The tech support were not knowledgeable about the software and offered very canned responses. As a matter of fact on many occasions the tech was surfing the web to find answers. Guess what forums he was looking in? Yep, this on right here. He even suggested that I should look in other forums. Well that did not go over well with me so I pressed on until I was finally connected to a developer who explained the reality.
The point is Sony is in the business to compete with other camera manufacturers, the compatibility with the software is an after thought. They, like many other companies use the public as beta testers and use our work around solutions as their knowledge base. Until of course they publish a fix…or in this case yet another update. It is the world we live in. We all have allowed it to happen because we think that version 7.2 will change our worlds so much quicker than version 6.5. Look at how many times windows versions have changed. Can anyone testify to Vista being the ultimate? I don’t use it yet and wont until I have to. Almost all of my computer woes have been from upgrades. Even when the evidence is overwhelming they are very slow to react.
Case in point…The popular SONY GL2 camera has known issues with the tape drive, they know it and we know it. No changes yet, but you can send it to them for and expensive fix. I almost bought one last year until I came across the many woes in various forums. Thank God for all the people who share their knowledge and experiences.
Sorry for running on but this is the reality. Keep on them and add your comments to other forums. They read them all the time.
Joe
PS I enjoy Sony Vegas and it is my preferred NLE.
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