Sebastian Alvarez
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Yes, DVD Architect 4.5a works just fine. It comes with its own serial number, which you have to enter the first time you run it. I think DVD Architect is part of Vegas Pro 8 now, I don’t think you can even buy Vegas Pro 8 by itself without DVD Architect.
Even if you have an SD camcorder for now, HD is just around the corner, with all the prices coming down so abruptly, both for HDTVs, camcorders and HD players of both formats. You might want to try the trial and see how it works for you. I believe the only thing you can’t do with it is use the AC3 Pro encoder, but other than that it works just as the paid version, only for 30 days. I hope I’m not wrong, somebody correct me if I am.
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I haven’t used the platinum version so I can’t say for sure, if you already seen the comparative checklist that’s the best way to compare. It might be that you don’t really need pro, but if you find something on that checklist that you could use pro for, then now is definitely the time, because I doubt those version 6 CDs will be sold much longer. I could be wrong though, I have no clue how many they actually have, but this deal has been talked about in other forums, so many people might be taking advantage of it.
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If you still haven’t opened it, then yes, it would be wise to return it and get this deal. I mean, $178 for Vegas is really unbelievable. Added to that the Canon HV20 seems to be going down in price every day, and it’s almost half of what it was when it first started selling, so nowadays you can start shooting and editing in HD without sacrificing much. Of course it’s still money, but compared to what it used to be just months ago, it’s amazing how much they went down.
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Excellent. That worked. I wonder why they would set the default to parameters that produce such a level loss.
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Some frames might need to be rebuilt, but not all of them. Vegas Pro 8 for example, smart-renders HDV, so it only recompresses only those frames that are necessary, probably up to 15 around each cut, but whatever segments you leave untouched, it just copies them so there’s a lot less information loss. Quite disappointing that Premiere, which costs a lot more than Vegas, can’t do that.
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Al,
it works. Check my new post on it.
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I would check with either Toshiba or Microsoft to see if you can downgrade for free to Windows XP, even if you have to pay for the shipping of the CD. I had Vista installed for two months, and I’m good with computers, but Vista for now is junk. Parts of the new interface are pretty, but its performance is a disaster. It’s much slower than XP on everything, and has lots of problems doing file operations. You’d be much better off installing XP and then Vegas again.
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Did you copy the files with the supplied software from the camcorder to your hard drive, or did you copy them from the camcorder’s hard drive to your computer’s drive using Windows Explorer? I’m asking because I had a Panasonic SD5 briefly, which used SDHC card storage but it’s AVCHD just like yours, and if I remember correctly I had trouble with the files if I copied them straight from the card, but if I used the Panasonic supplied software to copy them to my computer and then open them from there (going through a lot of subdirectories because it’s a BMDV style structure) I was able to open them in Vegas with no problem. In fact I still have some of those .m2ts files in my hard drive and they open in Vegas Pro 8 just fine.
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I don’t know if Vegas would run within a virtual machine, but my advice (and I think pretty much everybody else’s) would be to not run it that way, but instead install Windows XP (not Vista) in its own partition and run Vegas from there. Virtual machines are good for some software, but when it comes to computer intensive and especially software that uses DirectX a virtual machine is out of the question. You might be able to run it, but never as good as natively.
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OK, but I’m not talking about that kind of upgrade. I’m talking about purchasing the version 6 that B&H is selling and also purchasing Vegas Pro 8 upgrade, which together would be $180, about $300 than Vegas Pro 8 full version. As long as it’s legal (andI don’t see why it wouldn’t be) it’s a heck of a deal, even if you have to install version 6 first.