James Hauge
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Personally, I use Sorenson Squeeze, I’ve used it in the past to convert from Pal to NTSC and it worked great once I got the settings I wanted…
–James
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Aloha from Hawaii Bruce!
I use Sony Vegas on my laptop all the time.. and in my experience (I am by no way an expert or anything at all) Sony Vegas rarely uses the GPU except for some 3d rendering type stuff if it’s available…
I’d focus on getting the CPU power and memory to be high…
for my laptop, i’m using a quad core 2.3 ghz with 4 gig of ram and have no problems, just long render times…
If I were in your situation, I’d do the active edit’s (where you’re doing the work of editing and setting things) then save it and let it render over night… That’s what I always do for my edits if I can… If you have a powerful enough laptop though, it wouldn’t have any problems…
I’d still focus on the CPU and memory, gpu (for a laptop) is less important.. now, being that you are going to be using color correction and such, you do want a gpu that can make the adjustments you want so things look right on your screen, so that’s what I’d focus on for the gpu…
Good luck!
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I’ve always been under the impression that the gpu only really makes a difference when rendering (with Vegas) when using certain video effects…
in my experience, the biggest help in render speed in my experience has been cpu speed… even memory makes less of a difference as long as you have enough (and 8 gig should be fine)…
these are just my opinions.
That all being said, your new computer that you’re using has close to the same cpu as the old one so I’d think that render speed would be very close to the same…
I recently got an old refurbished server.. 3.07 ghz xeon, 2 cpu, 4 cores each (8 cores of 3.07 ghz each) with 8 gig of ram, no special video card at all, and it renders 30 minute video clips at hd quality really fast…
Something to maybe check into.. I’d paid about $300 for it, including the shipping..
again, just my thoughts…
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Short answer is yes…
The guys gives enough information in here to be able to do it I think, and you’ll just need to make sure that your project in vegas has the right proportions of height and width…
personally, I usually just let it change my project to fit the media i put onto the timeline when I can, and in this case, that’d be your best bet.
you’d need a couple of additional pieces of software, but they are free and run on both mac or windows so you shouldn’t have any problems!
Good luck!
–James