A Consensus on Vegas 8 ?

Bill Sullivan

Bill Sullivan

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I'm a new Vegas 7 user and I've been working on small projects to become familiar with it. I'm ready to tackle my feature documentary and I'm debating the benefits of upgrading to V8 before the promotional price expires.

I'm interested in the experiences of those who have tried it. Many of the posts about V8 seem to be from HD users. I shoot SD with the DVX 100B. You can't beat the upgrade price, but are there any drawbacks that I need to be aware of?

Thanks for the help.

Bill
 
The price is so low that you might as well upgrade. I shoot on the DVX as well and Vegas 8 is amazing for it. You'll get the audio mixer, multicam (if you don't already have VASST's one), 32 bit video processing, protype titler (if you don't already use something else), dual layer DVD authoring support in DVDA 4.5 among other things...

If you only get the download, it's $135. Not too bad...

If those new features aren't much use to you, you might as well upgrade anyway for $135. Who knows, they might add something useful to you in an update.
 
DVDA has been able to do dual-layer since version 3.

But this:

If those new features aren't much use to you, you might as well upgrade anyway for $135. Who knows, they might add something useful to you in an update.
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Is the best argument for doing it.
 
Since version 3? Whoops... sorry about that...

but yeah... it's only $135... can't really beat that.
 
Hmmm I've been watching and have a tough time jumping on the boat. I guess I need to read up on the audio mixer - I've always found audio on v7 easy and only lacking in sheer number of filters. I can't see when I'd use multi-cam, so maybe the only change is the 32-bit float color processing. While I applaud that feature, and would certainly use it for rendering, that's really only one new feature - hardly seems like a major upgrade.

I'm sure there are lots of changes 'under the hood' but from an end-user perspective it still seems like we're being forced into a minor upgrade for which we get to pay all over again (I only paid $230 for v7) only because, truth is, all future bug fixes and updates will be for v8. That may sound pessimistic, but hey - am I the only one who sees it that way?

Sure $135 isn't going to break me, but I could buy other stuff with it instead ;oD One positive thing, they allow the upgrade from v6, so presumably they will allow v7 -> v9 for a similar price when that comes out. I might not miss much.

Anyone found anything else "must-have" about v8 that I might have overlooked? Thanks,

Dip
 
In my opinion, the ProType Titler was not in the category of amazing. At best, much needed, but not amazing. If you aren't using anything else, then it's definitely nice, but I that was your only reason for upgrading, in my opinion it would be better spent purchasing a medium grade titler. But that's just my opinion. I would definitely agree that it was not enough to blow anyone away. They made it very mac-like, and I felt that it actually didn't mesh well with the rest of the interface.
 
XDCAM-specific features include:
HD Import (all modes supported, native .MXF editing)

Does anyone know if this means Vegas 8 can import files from an HVX? This is killing me.

Edit: From what I've read nothing has changed in it's support. Looks like there is no big reason to update, very disapointing.
 
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Yeah, unfortunately it can't. I just tested Premiere's implementation of HVX support and it's awesome. Too bad Sony isn't budging on this one... so it seems...

:cry:
 
I just upgraded and noticed a couple of things right off. It starts up a lot faster than 6. And the preview modes are much better. Meaning the image quality is better in the lower res preview modes, so I can preview real time on my old-ass machine with a cleaner image.
 
If your not going out into after effects 32 bit support is worth every penny. It's hard to learn and wrap your head around but you can now color correct like they do film not color correct like we had to for video.

I loved Vegas with a passion but with Premiere supporting P2 and After Effects support coming real soon I jumped boat and live in Adobe cs3 land.

I used to do my cuts in Vegas then import the AAF in premiere so I could move into AE but Vegas, Rayight and Cineform got kicked to curb.

I'll always love the way Vegas cuts so fast and I will miss it. If I had a DVX though I might stick with it.
 
I hear you, yeah the 32 bit stuff is nice. I use AE all the time, but honestly, if I made that big a jump, I would probably just go to mac and FCP. Seems you basically get all of that, but it's more widely used than Premier anyway.

I love Vegas because it is so stupidly simple to use, and just about completely intuitive. It's sad that SONY will not simple license Raylight and make the support native.
 
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