Vetgas 6 and Hardware acceleration?

[Edward Troxel]

The Decklink hardware from Black Magic now works with Vegas. Vegas can now do direct I/O via these cards.

Edward Troxel

[Saxxey]

Does this mean hardware acceleration or just a DV Transfer?

Saxxey

Look-Up Productions

[Edward Troxel]

No acceleration.

Edward Troxel

[Larry Watts]

In practical workflow terms what advantage does direct i/o do?

Does it save time? How?

THanks

Larry

LSW

[Timothy Duncan]

[Larry Watts] “In practical workflow terms what advantage does direct i/o do?

Does it save time? How?”

The advantage is uncompressed I/O. If you are doing DV projects and only have DV decks, then there is no gain other than an SDI or component preview from Vegas. The Decklink solution is for those having SDI or component decks that are higher resolution/quality than DV. For me — I’m using Digibeta decks so I’ve now finally got my wish of being able to capture/PTT directly in Vegas with uncompressed video. As long as you stay in Vegas, and you have plenty of disk space that can support uncompressed data rates, then this is a good solution. However, if you need to access the uncompressed footage to use in a 3rd party application, such as AE, then you will need 4 times the disk space.

So if you are doing DV based projects — Decklink is not an advantage, but if you are doing uncompressed work, then Decklink is great. If you want to offline/online with Digibeta, you’ll still need an SD-Connect because the current relase of Vegas only supports uncompressed with Decklink.

While I like Decklink, I’m looking forward to uncompressed with SD-Connect and Vegas.
I’m also excited about the HDV-Connect that was announced at NAB last week.

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P.S. — nice to meet many of you last week at NAB! I missed the Sony party because I was presenting Vegas 6 at the ProMax Digital Cafe on Tuesday night.