Vegas 7, anytime soon?

[Edward Troxel]

Vegas 6 was just released 6 months ago. Plus, Vegas 6 handles HD just fine. Here’s an article that might be of interest to you:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/duncan_timothy/stellars/index.html

Edward Troxel

[Chris Young]

We are not long into v6.0c so I don’t expect to see a v7 before NAB next year… I would imagine? As for DVC Pro and Pro 50 support I don’t think so, would love to see it as we use DVC 25/50 all the time. The day Sony builds in support for a Panasonic codec is the day I will eat my hat. Which I will happily do should such a thing ever happen!

Chris Young
CYV Productionss
Sydney

[Donatello]

Vegas can handle HD /SD from any deck/camera that has SDI out ( that would include DVCpro & whatever provided you have a card-ie: decklink) ..
but will it handle DVCpro 50 native over 1394 ?? Vegas has always been OPEN so i really think it comes down to how many request they get for DVCpro 50/100 support AND how much $$$ panasonic wants in fees ..
also there could be 3rd pary solutions ?

don’t let panasonic have you believe that anybody can use their codec’s in products or make P2 cards .. DVCpro has been around for years and how many 3rd party do you see selling a DVCpro codec ?? and the few that do look at the price (300-500) …

let’s not forget the bottom line the DVCpro50 codec is just as compressed as any DV codec ( DV= 3.4MB/s, DVCpro50=6.8MB/s, DVCproHD 720p= 6.8MB/s, DVCpro1080= 13.7MB/s ) .. DVCpro 50 works very good on the camera head but NOT that good after a few renderings = shoot with confidence – render with caution = IMO for better results in post use a intermediate codec

P2 – been around since the 800 camera ? how many 3rd party’s are making P2’s = ZERO ..

[Donlao]

Well, that’s interesting gentlemen. I’m not too hype on HD as of yet since I’ve no need for it any time soon. I’ve liked to stick with SD DVCpro50 though, unless down converting from HD to DS achieve better quality than DVCpro50. I’ll wait until what the next version of Vegas have to offer before trying out other NLEs.