[Jorge Moyet]

yes the wmv was a bad test.

they both did a widescreen .MOD to .MPEG2 (.MOD: Video: around 9Mbps. Audio: AC3 (dolby digital) to MPEG2: Video: default export quality. Audio: MPEG 224kbps)

iv edited video on the software that came with the camera and it did it in a about few seconds to a minute longer ( if the video is long) than the length of the actual video.

the camera is a JVC Everio GZ-MG330 30GB HDD

but vegas would take like 6x or longer to do what the free software did.

vegas has a lot of cool features but it takes forever to render a video file.

i seen a video on youtube of a guy explaining how to export HD video for youtube he said it would take 17 minutes per every minute of video… WHAT!!!??? i dont know if he has a dated computer but still..

[Jorge Moyet]

Sony Vegas renders very slow for me when other software renders it in seconds.
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I did a render test with a 19sec video and here are my results:

H M S
00:00:00

Sony Vegas Pro 8: 00:02:12 MPEG2

Windows Movie Maker: 00:00:45 WMV

Cyberlink Power Director Express: 00:00:16 MPEG2

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now can somebody explain how a free software from my camera can render the video much faster than a very expensive video editing software?

nothing was done to the video just a plain mpeg2 video from my camera that was used for the test