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Vegas 11 Pro & DVDA Pro overkill for my use?
Hi all,
I recently built a new computer to assist in converting GoPro HD video to DVD’s & BD’s in addition to daily home use. It happens to be a i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, Win7 x64, 240GB SSD for the OS & applications, and a 4x1TB RAID 10 for video storage. I assembled the rig and I got the OS installed just last Thursday.
I’m currently undecided on a video card; I’ve heard that there are separate compute vs gaming cards. I had planned on buying an overclocked EVGA 670 for use with Vegas. But if decide not to go with Vegas then I don’t know if any other products will take advantage of the GPU for rendering? Highly unlikely I’ll be doing much gaming on this system, but I don’t like to limit my options either.
I downloaded Vegas 11 Pro & DVD Architect Pro trials to get an idea whether they are the best tools to write the highest quality media. Without using the manual, I can get around pretty well in DVDA, but I haven’t spent much time in Vegas because it seems more complex than what I need. But I’ve also read that to get the best quality, I need to render video separately in Vegas and just the separate A/V streams into DVDA.
Sony’s peer forum gives me concerns from other owners that Vegas 11 is quite buggy and it doesn’t seem as if Sony is doing much to correct the issues. The Sony AVC template seems to have the best quality but it is not listed on my clean install but I don’t know if the trial is truly fully functional the first 30 days? I’ve found others who have had this issue but I haven’t found many tips other than insuring you don’t have any third-party codecs installed…. which I don’t unless they were included with Microsoft products.
I don’t mind spending a couple hundred dollars on the software, but it needs to be reliable and offer a nice set of features which includes what I think Vegas 11 & DVDA5 offers… stripped of the things a home user is unlikely ever to need. I want to be able to burn BD & DVD at the highest possible quality, have nice editing features like menus, backgrounds, animations, etc. Don’t care about 3D.
So what’s your opinion of VV11, DVDA Pro? Is it more reasonable to use the Studio versions of these products, or does the support and quality control issues exist in those products also? If not Sony, which product(s) would you recommend?
Thanks for your time,
Jim
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Jim,
[But if decide not to go with Vegas then I don’t know if any other products will take advantage of the GPU for rendering?] You can make Adobe Premiere pro recognize almost any Nvidia Cuda card that Vegas can with an override to it’s video card exception file.
That’s not an endorsement, though. I think Premiere is the least intuitive NLE in use today. I am forced to work with it on occasion.
I have three computers with Vegas and DVDA installed. They have been rock solid, with the exception of the introductory version of NB Titler pro, which was quickly de-installed. I never use a codec pack, install screen savers or other downloaded crap. I test out on a less important computer anything I think I’ll need. I don’t even surf on my production machine. Still Vegas has had it’s share of issues, as evidenced here by other users. But last week I was working with a mixed timeline of AVCHD and RED Epic assets – no problems. So I think it can handle anything I need to get done. Plus, I like the feel of it.
Hope this helps,
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64
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I think pro is overkill for your videos.
Get the trial of studio and if it works, then buy it.
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I tried MSP 12 x64. The workflow was easy, but I’m unhappy with the quality of the render once written to BD. I used original GoPro Hero 1920x1080x30 videos, and rendered it as Sony AVC 1920x1080x60 16mbps. It took about 6 hours for the entire process of rendering the video, the audio, creating the compilation & burning the disc, not even using DVD Architect Studio. I did have some text overlays, dissolves, audio adjustments, etc, in the compilation.
I’ll need to re-test using DVDAPro, but I seem to recall it being much faster than that. But I only did what DVDA allowed me to do natively without using Vegas 12 Pro.
At any rate, the video is a bit blurry and blocky. Unless there is a way to get better video out of MSP12, I’m not happy with it.
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I tried MSP 12 x64. The workflow was easy, but I’m unhappy with the quality of the render once written to BD. I used original GoPro Hero 1920x1080x30 videos, and rendered it as Sony AVC 1920x1080x60 16mbps. It took about 6 hours for the entire process of rendering the video, the audio, creating the compilation & burning the disc, not even using DVD Architect Studio. I did have some text overlays, dissolves, audio adjustments, etc, in the compilation.
I’ll need to re-test using DVDAPro, but I seem to recall it being much faster than that. But I only did what DVDA allowed me to do natively without using Vegas 11 Pro.
At any rate, the video is a bit blurry and blocky. Unless there is a way to get better video out of MSP12, I’m not happy with it.
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