MainConcept AVC Render Issue

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Murehead] “Do you know if it is possible for me to bring over a 45 minute project from Pinnacle to Vegas and finish editing with Vegas?”

There is no way to do this. Your best option would be to render the file out to AVCHD (or whatever the source is) and bring that into a new Vegas project and finish editing there.

~jr

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[Dave Haynie]

Everyone here will say “Vegas”, and that is the correct answer. But the big win is that you can choose different levels. For example, start with Studio Platinum, which is pretty cheap and offers great HD editing. Later on, if you get more serious, you can upgrade to Vegas Pro, and take along everything you learned in “Studio”. And you can get a 30-day demo via download… that’s the best way to learn if the expense will be justified.

My one exposure to Pinnacle was with Impression, their old DVD program (I think they bought it from Minerva). This was in the early days of DVD authoring, and I did like the fact that, while low-level, you could do anything DVD is capable of doing in that program. Most others put some abstraction layer on top of the DVD machinery… makes it easier to edit (and perhaps, these days, easier to also do Blu-ray with the same abstraction), but it can limit power.

The huge problem with Impression: buggiest program I have ever successfully used for anything productive. I spent $350 for the program, endured months of agony, and got a pretty good DVD out of the deal. I mean, serious bugs… it was self-corrupting. You could edit your project, save it, only to find it couldn’t be re-read by the application. So I developed a workflow where I only edited on a copy, and did very frequent saves AND reloads (a save wasn’t sufficient).

The first version of DVD Architect would not have yielded just what I wanted, but I would have finished in a few days. Pinnacle offered one bug fix that didn’t do much, then pretty much abandoned the program. A company that does that will never “fool me twice”. Sony has occasionally stumbled on releases with a bug or few, but they do work hard to fix the bugs, and even add new features in-between major (eg, you pay again) releases.

-Dave