DVFilm Epic I - Realtime DSLR editing in Vegas 9 Pro

[jerkstore]

Hey Skilled,

At the moment, Epic I only supports Vegas 9/32bit but will work on 64bit Windows machines. The engineers are working on getting Vegas 9/64bit compatibility.

Best,
Andy

I was wondering why it wasn't doing anything.

[Rakesh Jacob]

Yes; however it's doubtful that an affordable PC could do dissolves or other transitions in real time without the proxies.



2Ghz core 2 duo



It won't matter with Epic due to the way the plugin is designed, it forces all the rendering through a common memory and interface, totally regardless of layering. We did a test with 400 clips, half of them on an upper layer with 50% opacity (essentially every frame is a dissolve) and it had no effect on stability.

Awesome, looks very promising, will give it a shot!

[mvb]

Thanks, also we have updated the free demo downloadable at http://dvfilm.com/epic

It now allows you to have an unlimited number of clips so you can test the stability for yourself. We'd be interested in any feedback.

[Skilled]

So far I have testing this! Ans all i can say at this pointis OMG!! ITS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ATL Media Group]

Cool... so now it's as smooth, fast and stable as native 7D files in Edius Neo 2.5 and the soon to be released Edius 5.5?

If so...Sweet

Oh, so it makes proxies.. How quick does it make them and can you edit with full frame full rez preview?

[Skilled]

I use Vegas pro 9. Full frame viewing is no problem..so smooth!

[Andy Olson]

Thanks for the feedback, Skilled.

ATL, we're working on some speed tests and also a comparison between the different quality settings. The speed tests do depend on the system speed, but we could definitely show the difference between each and compared to transcoding to different formats.

At the moment, the Half size is actually the quickest file to generate though the quarter size will soon become quicker in an update.

Best,
Andy

[mvb]

A 36 sec 1920 x 1080 24p clip in Epic starts playing back real-time about 1min 15 sec after you drop it into the timeline. That's with the 1/4-size setting.

That's about as long as you have to wait on your project because while you are scrubbing that clip or adjusting the in/out points, the second clip is processing in the background.

For that same clip the time is 1 min 25 sec for the 1/2-size setting, and about 2 min for the Full size setting.

This is on a pretty low-cost 2GHz core 2 duo laptop with 2GB memory.

[ATL Media Group]

As a long time soundforge guy, and sonic foundry user, I just can't wrap my head around editing video in vegas 9c..... No problem editing on just about any other nle including: Premiere CS4, Edius and Fcp.... scrubbing in vegas is just odd to me. I used Acid Pro a bunch too... just don't think i'll switch to Vegas when Neo2.5 edits Avchd and dslr footage like butter at full rez already.
It's fun to muck around with tho.
=)

[mvb]

As a long time soundforge guy, and sonic foundry user, I just can't wrap my head around editing video in vegas 9c..... No problem editing on just about any other nle including: Premiere CS4, Edius and Fcp.... scrubbing in vegas is just odd to me. I used Acid Pro a bunch too... just don't think i'll switch to Vegas when Neo2.5 edits Avchd and dslr footage like butter at full rez already.
It's fun to muck around with tho.
=)

That's true but with Epic I you can finish your edit instead of waiting for your transcodes, and that's the whole point. We've heard from editors that set up a transcode job overnight and found that it cratered or ran out of disk space, and did not complete. You can waste time transcoding files you end up not using. The transcode files can be huge. Also with Epic there are no transcoding losses.