Vegas 11 Render Crashing :(

[Ole Kristiansen]

If I do move to Mac – I’m thinking of it – how well does Vegas 12 run on it?

Hmm, you have to install Windows on a Mac computer if you want to use Vegas Pro

[John Rofrano]

[Stephen Crye] “how long did it take to get used to the Final Cut workflow? I’ve looked at it, and it is very, very different.”

I got use to it in an afternoon with training from Ripple Training. Seriously, coming from Vegas Pro helped a lot because people who use other NLE’s are use to 3-point editing and Vegas users don’t have that approach, we are use to just dropping stuff on the timeline and working it from there and FCP X is great for doing that, more so than Vegas Pro even. The magnetic timeline is brilliant and once you understand how it works, you wonder why anyone would want to edit video using tracks? The magnetic timeline is “ripple edit” implemented correctly. Yes the approach is very different. The approach is based on your primary storyline and secondary storylines. It’s all about the narrative (i.e., telling the story) and not about which track do I place this on. Different yet refreshing. ?

[Stephen Crye] “If I do move to Mac – I’m thinking of it – how well does Vegas 12 run on it?”

Vegas Pro 12 & 13 ran extremely well on my Mac Pro 12-Core with AMD Radeon HD5870 GPU. Rendering MainConcept AVC works great. I was using it with Windows 7 Professional and it worked fine. The “red car” benchmark played back at full speed 29.97 fps without a single glitch or dropped frame. As I said, I don’t use it that way anymore but Bootcamp allows you to run Windows natively so everything works just like any other Windows PC.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Tobias Von brockdorff]

Hi Steve,

thank you for your coment here.

Is your Mac able to play back everything fluently, without any stuttering?
My questions are about videomaterial straight out of the camera like mxf FullHD 50p or ProRes mov QHD 25p, edited with Vipes, disolves and colorgrading effects like vegas color curves …
Maybe more video tracks for adding Flairs and Mate FX.

Where is the limit for your Mac System, when it begans stuttering?
Wich system do you use
and do you use GPU axelleration and/or Dynamic-RAM-Preview in Vegas on Mac or not?

Best regards

Tobi

[John Rofrano]

[Tobias von Brockdorff] “Is your Mac able to play back everything fluently, without any stuttering?”

I assume you are asking me since Steve doesn’t have a Mac. (he is thinking of it)

[Tobias von Brockdorff] “My questions are about videomaterial straight out of the camera like mxf FullHD 50p or ProRes mov QHD 25p, edited with Vipes, disolves and colorgrading effects like vegas color curves …”

Final Cut Pro X was designed around ProRes. That’s the native format so it edits ProRes like butter. It can also edit MXF natively. I haven’t had any issues with playback. I mostly edit HDV and AVCHD so I’m not really stressing the system. No 4K or anything exotic like that but color correcting doesn’t slow me down at all. I can even add animated 3D Text and it plays back very smoothly.

[Tobias von Brockdorff] “Where is the limit for your Mac System, when it begans stuttering?”

The beauty of FCP X is that it doesn’t stutter for long. FCP X has background timeline rendering. So, for example, you can create an extremely complex transition or add very heavy FX to a clip, and FCP X will gradually render it in the background so that your timeline is always playing back smoothly. This is one of my favorite features of FCP X.

[Tobias von Brockdorff] “Wich system do you use”

I have a 2010 Mac Pro 2.93GHz 12-Core Xeons, 24GB ECC Memory, 512GB SSD RAID 0, AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU, Apple 8TB RAID 5 (4 disks)

[Tobias von Brockdorff] “and do you use GPU axelleration and/or Dynamic-RAM-Preview in Vegas on Mac or not?”

As I was saying, FCP X will background render the timeline so that playback is always smooth. It uses OpenCL so it takes full advantage of my AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU and anything that can’t playback in real-time is background rendered so that I’m playing back ProRes files that are smooth. This is far better than Dynamic-RAM preview in Vegas because once rendered, it always in effect unless you modify the clips and then it automatically renders again in the background.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com