Sony Vegas Pro 12 and Panasonic P2 – working at last

[Steve Rhoden]

Good to hear!

Steve Rhoden
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[John Rofrano]

Yea, things are looking up for Vegas Pro editors who shoot Panasonic P2.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

No more use for Raylight….lol

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[Mark Krueger]

I am a P2 user also and have been a SVP user since version 9. Great to have P2 support! I have a question… Do you know how sony converts these files for use in SVP? Before having used Raylight, it seems the files were the same type, but just usable in SVP, now they appear as a windows movie file ( I think). Do you think there is any loss in quality?

[Steve Rhoden]

No loss in Quality Mark…..

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[Steve Rhoden]

Its been long integrated in After effects and Premier Pro,
Full time its made available in Vegas.

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[David Bilodeau]

See next message; unintended duplication.

[Mark Krueger]

I am glad you reported this because I have experienced the same issues. My footage from the P2 cards looks great when movement is slow, but when panning with some amount of speed the footage is choppy. Playing the footage directly off the card to a monitor does not show this choppiness. I don’t recall having this problem with SVP11 using raylight.

That is why I asked in an earlier post if the Sony conversion of P2 data resulted in any loss in quality. Since this post clarifies my concerns, I hope Sony will address this issue.

[David Bilodeau]

I have several open support tickets with Sony about Vegas 12. Since early November when they last responded to my ticket about GPU acceleration being completly broken, they have become totally silent and non- responsive to repeated requests for updates.

This says, to me, that they are covered up in complaints and heads down scrambling to fix, or that because Sony is overall sinking….like Panasonic is…two iconic brands in trouble…that they have just stopped working on it. Not sure which, but either way I sure wish they would clean up the train wreck of an upgrade they call Vegas 12 Pro. I have been with them since Vegas 4 and this one is by far the most unstable and disappointing release.

[Mark Krueger]

I know it is frustrating… I have been a Vegas user since version 9. I always get excited about a new version thinking they are getting it right. There have been great improvements but also frustrating that they advertise new things and they don’t work.

Most recently I have noticed that I have to disable the GPU acceleration in order to render a standard DVD format. Using widescreen architect as a template if I don’t disable the acceleration the time it takes to render is greatly increased or it will just stop rendering about 25 or 40% into the render. I have not problem with rending a bluray template. I called Sony on this one and they said that most likely the reason is when the GPU acceleration is active it is trying to keep up with the preview display while rendering so that is slowing things down.

Doesn’t really make sense to me because I thought the GPU acceleration was suppose to make rendering quicker. The Sony people told me “Not really” ” it only helps in preview processes”.

Back to the P2 issues, please post if you get any response on this issue. I have only P2 gear so all my video comes from this format so I really need a solution.

Thanks Mark