what don’t you like about vegas?

[Enrique Orozco]

XDCAM EX clips MUST be wrapped to mxf with clip browser… I wish full support without any conversion from my XDCAM EX … just a wish…

regards

Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio

[Ed Kukla]

En

Is the mxf wrapping just an issue of time or is there more about it that you don’t like?

How long does it take to wrap a 16g card full of clips?

[John Bollenbacher]

I’ve re-wrapped some of my EX-1 footage to .mxf, and I don’t know if it really takes much longer than copying the mp4’s your hard drive.

As someone who’s been editing for a while on a variety of NLE’s I’d have to say that not having true 3 point editing can be a shag. It’s closer in 8 with the overwrite option, but still not as exact.

That being said, the whole paradigm of 3 point editing is really left over linear style editing, but if you are used to it, it means that you don’t work quite as fast.

And the way that vegas selects portions of events can be a little hinky. You drag you selection over an event, but sometimes it does highlight, sometimes not… seems like there could be a little more precise control there too.

But I do feel like much of the editing can happen faster than other programs, especially if you trust it. Audio editing is by far the best of the lot.

If you come from another NLE, it will be like learning a new language; but if you are new to it I think Sony is more intuitive than most editors.

Good luck.

John Bollenbacher
10engines

[David Shirey]

I’m gonna agree with enrique here. We back up our SxS cards to external hard drives and then import either to Vegas or FCP from those hard drives when the project is actually ready to start editing. Obviously I can import directly from the card if the project is ready immediately. The MXF is just rewrapping the same actual video data that’s in the mp4 file, it’s not converting every frame to some other format, so the time it takes is pretty much just like copying the actual data. As such, the time it takes to copy a 16gig card would depend on the speed of the source and of your hard drives. I can tell you this much, if you’re shooting on an xdcam EX camera, Vegas is a darn good option for an NLE.

As for what I don’t like so much about Vegas… Third party support and overall popularity I guess. I wish Boris had as seamless integration with Vegas as I enjoyed back in the Media 100 days. When you talk to other videographers/editors, a lot of them don’t even know about Vegas. All they know is Final Cut and maybe Premiere. I’m sure it’s just my paranoia, but I don’t like people thinking I’m not a “real” editor just because I can build my own PC from parts and buy the editing software for half of what they spent on their Mac.