Vegas 10 stability?

[Dave Haynie]

Mostly.

The big problem I’ve had with Vegas 10 is their Cineform support. In the past, Vegas didn’t know a thing about Cineform, so it was handled as just another Video for Windows/DirectShow CODEC. In short, it just plain worked.

They’ve added direct support of Cineform to Vegas 10. This is apparently Vegas knowing about Cineform’s private API. Presumably this will allow Vegas to produce better video, or faster rendering to Cineform… not really sure here.

Here’s the problem… if you have an older version of Cineform, Vegas won’t support it via VfW as it should… it ignores it entirely. On loads, too… you can’t load Cineform files into Vegas 10 with older versions of Cineform. I had to pay a $50 upgrade fee to get Vegas 10 supported. Not the end of the world, but, while I needed Cineform support, I didn’t necessarily need the upgrade.

Worse yet, even with the latest version of Cineform NeoScene, I’m seeing crashes in rendering. I can render just dandy from Vegas 9 to Cineform 5.x, but in Vegas 10, I get an instant crash, at least rendering to 1080/24p at top quality. Unlike most things in the past version of Vegas (internal CODECs like Sony DV), there seems to be no way to turn this “improvment” off.

So, in short, if you’re a heavy user of Cineform (and not being pushed by all these bugs to consider Avid DNxHD and/or 50Mb/s MXF as viable alternatives), I’d wait. That’s the only real problem I have so far with Vegas 10. Another caveat: it can be slower at rendering than Vegas 9, in some cases. Faster in others… neither terribly significant — check my post on this for details.

-Dave

[Joel Mielle]

I’ve just installed Vegas 10 and found that playback of my 1080P footage is no longer in full quality or as fast as Vegas 9 when previewed (not realtime). Been half way through a feature film, I’m sticking to V9, once edited I might bring it into V10 for better audio editing features.

Filmmaker http://www.sixlovers.com

[Stephen Mann]

I am very happy with 10, but there’s no reason that you can’t have both versions on your PC. If 10 gives you a problem then don’t use it until you get your computer fixed.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Chris Poindexter]

Blaming his computer? I have 9 and 10 and both are stable on Win 7 64 bit. I like 10, but I’m having nothing but trouble with getting 10 to work right with Cineform…the supported version.

First I had to roll back to 5.1.4 on Cineform because of a bad build on a newer version that kept crashing on Windows 7. That worked okay with 9, but when I switched to 10, now Vegas says it can’t find the Cineform codec.

Another trouble ticket to Cineform, another editing day down the crapper. So I’m looking for a stable alternative to Cineform that actually works.

[Brad Miller]

I recently installed 10, and it crashes way more often then Vegas 8.