Sony Ax2000 or NX5U with Vegas 10

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Abraham] “I’m trying to choose between the AX2000 and NX5u to replace my V1U using Vegas 10. I’ve read a bunch of comparison comments but none specific to Vegas.”

Since they are both essentially the same AVCHD camera I don’t think there will be any difference in Vegas Pro. Given the choice between those two models, I would go with the HXR-NX5U NXCAM. It is the higher featured model of the two and for $500 difference on a $4,000 purchase I won’t think twice about it.

Now… given the choice between those and ANY camera, I would choose your V1U. 😉 (I love my Z1U and you couldn’t get me to give it up for an AVCHD camera)

~jr

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[Gary Abraham]

Hi John,
My main reason for considering the change is that I’ve been disappointed in the low light capability of my V1u. I’m going in today to do a side by side comparison. Could you explain what reservation you have about going to AVCHD from HDV?
Thanks
Gary

[Gary Abraham]

Hi again John,
I just read your thread from a month ago re: AVCHD vs HDV
I’m a bit lost trying to understand the “conversion” required for AVCHD footage going into Vegas.
Can you help me better understand?
Gary

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Abraham] “I’m a bit lost trying to understand the “conversion” required for AVCHD footage going into Vegas. Can you help me better understand?”

I’m not sure what “conversion” you are referring to. AVCHD is extremely demanding to decode on even the most modern CPU’s. If you are going to edit just one camera then you can get by, but if you need to do a multi-camera edit, it may be more efficient to transcode the AVCHD into CineForm which edits easier. It really all depends how powerful your PC is. I still love HDV and how smoothly it edits so I have no plans to move to AVCHD until PC’s can handle it as smoothly.

~jr

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