When will there be a 64 bit version of Vegas?

[Edward Troxel]

Have you managed to find 64bit drivers for all your hardware? (i.e. sound cards, video cards, etc…)

I’ve heard some people are already running Vegas on 64bit windows. How well… I can’t say.

Edward Troxel

[Kevin Mccarthy]

Ed
We are running Vegas 6 on a 64bt windows machine and It is rock solid. ‘just finished a 4 camera shoot dual layer DVD for a Los Angeles musical group complete with 24bt,96khz broadcast audio wave sound. It has been almost 4 months in the making and Vegas has been flawless! We used the G-tech, G-raid drives and could not ask for anything better.

[Frank Bokoski, jr.]

Hi Kevin,

I’d sure love to see the specs on the machine you’re running. Sounds exciting!

Thanks

[Kevin Mccarthy]

3Ghz with 600 gig internal drive, 2gig RAM, 7.1 surround sound card, 2X800 gig G-raid external drives straight out of the box custom made from FullCompass out of Middleton, Wis. I’ve dealt with them for years and they did agreat job for about $2400 excluding the external drives. Input is from a Sony HDV deck

[Jason Burkhimer]

thanks ed and kevin for the input. Interesting stuff, kev. Im glad to hear everything is running smooth because i was a little hesitant about using XP64 in a production environment, but now that Ive cleared most of my external projects, I think Ill try that setup for some of my in-house projects. thanks again guys!

-burk

[Arthur Bueno]

Could you tell us what the biggest advantages are of moving to 64 bit at this moment, for a video editing studio? Any specific area/software where performance increases significantly?

[Will Standley]

Kevin,

Are you capturing all 4 cams in real time to your PC system?

We hope to set up a 4 to 6 cam real time capture system and have looked a a couple of ways of doing it…

1 – Special live-capture HD like the PyroDV Drive or the FireStoe FS-4
2 – Long Firewire cables to one computer per cam… either PC Laptops, Desktops or possibly Mini Mac’s
3 – Multiple Firewire cards in a single computer… 1 card per cam… capturing to one or more disk… disk other than the one running the operating system

How did you do it and how did it work?

thanks for any comments.

[Kevin Mccarthy]

We captured each cam seperately in post production. synced them on the timeline with 4 windows in the preview. then synced the audio from a 24bit, 96k broadcast audio wave master that was imported from a CD.
I don’t know of any easy way to capture 4 live cams other than using a switcher to a master deck. If you do that you should also run iso tapes in each camera to cover any mistakes made in switching.
I have not seen an application that allows you to capture multiple cameras live. Perhaps someone more knowledgable than I can address that issue

[Edward Troxel]

Scenalyzer Live might be able to do that. I know people have tested capturing two tapes at the same time. Capturing two live cameras shouldn’t be any different.

Edward Troxel

[Farid Rahmi]

I’ve also asked before… Reason for me is that I simply don’t see the point in upgrading to a newer version of Vegas anymore, I’m actually stuck with V3 and except color correction that appeared in V4, there is nothing I really would need except more speed.

I would even consider downgrading to Movie Studio if they gave me a partial refund 😉

Farid

P.S.: I don’t think 64 bit drivers are a prerequisite for things such as rendering.