Angelo Mike
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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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I got 11 and was using a Radeon 6870, which should work, yet Vegas didn’t show any GPU acceleration with it, and I couldn’t turn it on with it. Last night I got a GeForce GTS 450 for $100 and Vegas now says GPU acceleration is on, but I haven’t noticed any improvement in performance. In fact, multicamera editing and adding 3D text still makes preview playback look awful. It’s probably playing back at around 10 frames per second.
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Here’s my thread about my dissatisfaction with it so far. As soon as I finish my current project, I’m rolling back to Vegas 10. The GPU acceleration seems to be a joke. Multicamera editing or adding any 3D text or transitions makes the video stutter badly, and makes editing multicamera footage with lots of movement difficult. Actually seeing fine details of movement is impossible.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/937572
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I bought an Nvidia GeForce GTS 450. I think Vegas 11 was supposed to use my Radeon 6870 for GPU acceleration, but it never listed it as an option. It’s now showing the GeForce as what it’s using for GPU acceleration, but multicam editing, as well as adding any effects, slows things down to where playback is pretty much unmanageable. I regret switching this one project over to 11, and a second one. Thankfully most of my projects are still on 10, so for now I’m uninstalling 11 and going back to 10. I sent an email to Sony technical support about it, and until it’s all fixed, 11 is a big step back for me.
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Yeesh, and multicam editing is very choppy. Looks like I may upgrade graphics cards to get GPU acceleration.
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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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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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Does anyone know how to use this offer from Videoguys?
I bought Vegas 10 for $300 last month when I got the email about htis, but now I’m not sure how to take them up on their offer to get Vegas 11 for free. I’m installing 11 now but don’t know how to get the full version for free since I don’t have the proper serial number. I registered the trial version online but am not sure what else to do.
Vegas 11 is saying that my serial number has to begin with “1T4”, which my Vegas 10 serial number (that I’m using) doesn’t. I called videoguys.com and the guy on the phone kind of said it’s early to tell what the issue is, but that no one else has called in with that problem and that I should contact Sony.
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Heh. Stephen’s right, you’ll get lots of different answers. I’ve watched and read lots of tutorials on it, but in the end I go with my own instincts.
For a film look I shoot in 24p, have a shutter of at least 1/48th if not faster, and very importantly, try to light things well if I have control over that. Which, many times I don’t, since I’m shooting events. There’s a big difference between a well lit (whatever that may mean for your shoot) video and one that’s poorly lit.
Also, I gave up adjusting brightness and contrast in Vegas in favor of adjusting color curves. Look up tutorials on those. In each video I end up setting them differently, some more than others since adjust the high tones higher can make already bright video blow out. Though if it’s not too bright in the first place, that’s usually not an issue.
And move your camera like a film camera-again, whatever that may mean for you. That can mean hand held, on your shoulder, or on a dolly or crane. Maybe lots of close ups, inserts, or wide shots. But that’s all up to you. No one can decide these things for you.
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I can vouch for all those things in Vegas. Vegas can do a lot out of the box and has built in transitions, effects, and audio controls (and I’m pretty sure you can download a demo trial either of the Pro version or of the Movie Studio version). Of course, there are plenty of plugins that a lot of us use to get things like more customizable and 3D transitions, texts, and effects, but I think a lot of those tools are pretty affordable and you can try them out in demos like NewBlue, VASST, or Boris. There are others. Some are even free.
In my experience with Final Cut (which isn’t all that extensive-just a few hours of cutting on it over the last few years, including cutting something on iMovie the other day), Vegas is much easier to use. I picked up using Adobe Premiere much more easily than Final Cut. Not that Final Cut isn’t a capable video editor, but Vegas just seems to be a more powerful, straightforward tool that gives you more options and is more versatile than FCP.