Request for Recommendation

[Steve Rhoden]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/925700
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/931492
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/937901#937905

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[John Rofrano]

[Mark Grady] “Since switching to Canon DSLR for primary footage, the Quicktime large files seem to be too much for my computer using Sony Vegas 8. “

Vegas Pro 8.0 was not equipped to edit DSLR files. You should upgrade to Vegas Pro 11.0 if you want to use that camera and edit the files naively.

Alternately, convert the footage to CineForm and continue using Vegas Pro 8.0 but for a little more than the price of CineForm you can upgrade to Vegas Pro 11.0.

My advice is to download the trial of Vegas Pro 11.0 and see if it makes editing your projects easier. If it does, the you have your solution. If it doesn’t then CineForm should edit smoothly even on an old Dual Core PC. Of course, depending on your PC specs (which you didn’t list) you could just need a more powerful PC anyway.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Dave Haynie]

Yup. AVC editing was just functional in Vegas 8, and for some camera output, not stable. Also, for any serious HD work, you really want the 64-bit version of Vegas. Vegas 8.1 was the first 64-bit release, but it was more of a technology preview… it had issues.

While its true that Canon’s Quicktime format is a bit easier on the CPU than AVCHD from a camcorder (Canon uses I and P frames only, plus 44Mb/s bitrate, rather than IPB frames and 24Mb/s… B frames require more CPU and memory to process), I would still want a fairly modern 4 to 6 core CPU with 8GB memory.

That doesn’t have to be the very top of the line stuff, either. I saw 16GB of RAM on sale at Newegg this week for $60 or so. I have long been an advocate of buying technology “at the knee of the commodity curve”. At commodity prices, when pay twice as much, you get twice as much. At the high end, you might pay twice as much for only 25% more performance, maybe even less.

-Dave