[Rahul Harit]

Well, I have been using FCP on Mac & Sony Vegas Pro 8 on PC. I have found that Sony is far better than FCP if we consider speedy edits. FCP is quite popular with its Templates which Sony does not have and are bought in a set of plug ins.Quality wise I have delivered results almost same from both the softwares without any hardware. Final Cut Pro have some issues with the Text Editing and not up to the mark. On the other hand Sony Vegas Pro delivers and renders Texts crystal clear as it is without using any other plug ins. Track Motion feature in Vegas is quick and superior to that of FCP. Another powerful feature of Vegas is that you can apply Effects and chain you effects in THREE modes, On Event, On Track and Finally on the Master Video. This is the most amazing feature which Final Cut doesn’t have and one needs to copy Fx attributes to all the events.Another point is that every event, needs rendering in FCP whereas Sony Vegas is Real Time and rendering is required only when you are finished with your edits. At last I would say that Sony Vegas pro and Final Cut Pro both are good softwares to edit on but my preference still goes with the Vegas pro. If a good hardware and a good machine like i5,i7 is with Vegas Pro then I would always want Sony on my Edit Table. I wish Sony comes out with independent MAC version which could work without bootcamp and windows. I would love to have it at my workstation.

[Rahul Harit]

Hi,

You can buy Black Magic DeckLink Card as per your requirements.That is one of the best. You can also try Matrox, if it supports Sony Vegas.Otherwise Deck Link is the best to use with Sony Vegas.

Rahul