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Is Sony Vegas 9 worth the upgrade for Bluray?
I have Sony Vegas Pro 8 & DVD Architect Pro 4.5. If I am trying to make BluRay disc (events about 1.5 Hours) from a Canon 5D Mark II file, is Vegas 9 worth the $200 upgrade? Right now I’m having to convert the mov. files to avi. and that takes a whole lot of hard drive space. Do I need Vegas 9 or put my money into Cineform NeoScene, but then I still cannot authorize a bluray burn with DVD 4.5. I have been two weeks trying different codecs to make this work, can somebody help me? Tiff
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Well even with a fast computer, editing those Canon 1080p mov files is a chore. If that’s a big part of what you’re doing you might want to spring for Cineform. Of course it sounds like you really need the ability to author blu-rays, but I thought DVDA 4.5 did that? Or did Vegas 8 Pro just have the ability to burn a timeline straight to blu-ray and you couldn’t author them in DVDA until 5.0?
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Thanks for the respond. I guess I will eventually purchase both Cineform and Vegas 9. I do have the option of going to Adobe Premiere (the school where I work uses Adobe) but I just don’ want to learn another software package.
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I have dvda architect that came with vegas 8 and I can create blurry discs. You should be able to also.
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I have not yet put a BD-R in the Bluray tray so I’ll try that next. Thanks again, Tiff
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Downloaded trial version of Cineform; works great. I guess I will be purchasing a full version. Thanks for the help.
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[gerwyn bowen] “I have dvda architect that came with vegas 8 and I can create blurry discs. You should be able to also.”
If your discs are blurry you may want to check your render settings. 🙂
Thanks for clearing that up though, I thought I remembered burning blu-rays in 4.5.
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A friend was shooting in HDV, and burning standard DVDs that looked ok, but when we finally took the same footage and burned it to Blu Ray, it was anything but “blurry”. It improved the footage considerably over burning HD to DVD. I routinely burn Panasonic AVCHD HD footage edited on Vegas 9.0e to both Blu Ray and SD and can say I have no ‘blurry’ footage from either.
Alf
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It was a typo. Should have read bluray!
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‘but then I still cannot authorize a bluray burn with DVD 4.5’
The upgrade to DVDA 5.0 is free for registered Vegas 8 pro/DVDA4.5 users:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/dvdapro
Theo
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Thank you, that’s nice to know.
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