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Vegas Pro 11 released
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Yes! I got the free upgrade. I just called Sony and explained the situation, emailed them a proof of purchase, and they gave me the serial numbers.
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Ugh, I’ve already ran into problem. The aspect ratio isn’t right for any of my video, and changing the project properties doesn’t affect it at all. I can alter the aspect ratio to other incorrect settings, but I can’t get it in it’s proper, 16:9 format of 1440×1080 resolution and a pixel aspect ratio of 1.33.
Edit: I figured it out, I guess. I have to right click on my media and change the pixel aspect ratio to 1.33. It’s set to 1 for all my media. Why am I having to do this for every project, though?
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In the past Sony included an extra incentive for upgrading. Looks like this time there really isn’t one – just the built-in new titler – which isn’t an extra incentive.
Steve
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Bought the upgrade for $139.
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Ditto. And that’s just the start… now I have to figure which graphics card upgrade I buy. And my smartphone (O.G. Droid) started losing its mind yesterday… that needs to be upgraded. In the grand scheme of things, the Vegas $135 Vegas deal is a great one.
-Dave
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I looking at buying the ATI Radeon HD 5870. Any comments?
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The Radeon 5870 is a pretty good graphics card. Supposedly it’s more powerful than the 6000 series, which came after it. And, by the way, I was using a Radeon 6870, but Vegas didn’t utilize it for GPU acceleration and I couldn’t even select it manually by going into Options, Preferences, and Video. So I had a choice last night between the Radeon 5870 and GeForce GTS 470 and went with the GeForce (even though the 6870 is specifically listed on the GPU acceleration page as compatible with Vegas 11!).
Vegas 11 utilizes the GeForce now, but I’m not noticing any difference in performance. At the risk of repeating myself from other parts of the board, but I just want people to be warned-multicamera playback is dreadful on Vegas 11, which I didn’t have a problem with on 9 or 10. And GPU acceleration doesn’t seem to help at all.
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Buy a spare hard drive, or use a second computer before jumping entirely. Dot zero releaseversions usually have bugs. I’llbeinstalling on my Dell laptop first.
Alf
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You’re right, and normally I wouldn’t be such an early adopter except for the offer for a free upgrade. At least now that I have that, I can always switch back to 11 when more of the bugs are worked out. But I don’t know how anyone can deal with this. I guess Sony’s counting on people not doing a lot of multicamera editing?
Oh, and that aspect ratio thing is ridiculous. I have to change every single video clip’s aspect ratio to 1.33, because all my footage is set to 1440×1080 with an aspect ratio of 1 for some reason. I don’t know what Vegas 9 and 10 did with the same footage, from the same camera I’ve been shooting on, but I never had this issue.
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You say it is time to move on, yet Vegas seems to support Vista…not going to get rid of XP for crappy Vista. XP may not be supported by Microsoft but there are many, many people and businesses that still use XP because is may be one of the best operating systems that MS ever released.
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