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Vegas v.7 or Connect HD?
For those of you who:
1. Have seen the specs Sony has revealed for Vegas v.7, and
2. Have experience working with Connect HD,…perhaps you can provide some insight for me. I have some HDV work coming up in a month or so (to be shot on a Sony HDV camera) and I have been planning to get Connect HD to work with my Vegas 6. However, the release of the new version of Vegas is scheduled for September and I’m wondering if it will do what Connect HD does. I don’t want to spend the money for Connect HD and have it become obsolete as soon as I buy Vegas 7. I’ve never edited HDV material before and I want to get my system ready for this job.
Thanks for your thoughts…
Lee
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7 Replies
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I suspect that 7 will merely allow you to handle your files the way that Connect HD does—in fact the module might be licensed from Connect HD.
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Vegas 6 already includes Connect HD.
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The Cineform codec you buy with Connect HD is meant to be slightly better and faster than the one included with V6.
Whether this difference will remain with V7 remains to be seen, plus whether Vegas t Internal Capture will do Scene Detection for HDV, which Connect HD does but V6 does not.
There is also the issue of how relevant Intermediates or Proxies will still be, particularly if, like me, you have a 4 year old PC
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Thanks all for your comments. I appreciate the education. Peter, your reference to “Intermediates or Proxies” illustrates how little I know about editing HDV. Does that refer to the delta frames that occur with GOPs (which, as I understand, are part of the HDV compression)? Do you have a reference location, article, etc. where I can get better informed before I take on this HDV project?
Thanks for any advice.
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Because HDV and its compression makes it hard to edit with on anything but a superfast PC (so far …..) the solution has been either:
Intermediates: This is a misleading name, because Intermediates such as Cineform’s are .avis at full HD resolution, and in fact they take up 3 times as much space. They are created as a render from the original HDV footage, and can be used for easy smooth editing, right through to the final render.
Proxies: Best done with a plug-in like Gearshift, these care widescreen DV avi files which “temporarily” replace the HDV files on the time line. They take up about the same space as HDV. They are also rendered from the HDV files and are quick and easy to edit with. Once the edit is done, a single click in Gearshift replaces the proxy files with the original HDV .m2t files ready for final rendering and output.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Thanks Peter. I’ll stick my toe into this deep water and see how it goes…
Cheers,
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Not really. Vegas 6 has Cineform (by license) but not Connect HD. They capture differently, Connect has a more advanced codec and scene detection.
JerryW
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