Vegas 4 or 5?

Re: Vegas 4 or 5?

I dunno, J; I’m assuming that with your experience, you’re running a pretty clean system without anything else running in the background to sap processor power. Why you’re getting these long render times and experiencing these problems, I can’t say. I can only say it’s not consistent with my Vegas experience.
 
Re: Vegas 4 or 5?

David...we have an extensive IT/Help Desk department...so NO, it is definatly NOT a clean system. (isn't it funny how computer guys can't ever seem to keep a system clean?)

However, there aren't a lot of processor intensive items running in the background or in system memory...certainly not enough to impact vegas's operations.

I think the long render times are just long because of windows...again, me bashing windows. But in this case, I'm suspecting our problems with vegas 5 lie in the build, not in the software. For some reason, they decided to download the trial version rather then just buying a box, and I don't ever trust software that's downloaded.

Error checking can only go so far, and it has to introduce errors in the binaries at some point.
 
Re: Vegas 4 or 5?

Actually, in the case of Vegas, the downloadable full version of Vegas 5 was better than boxed version when it was first released. The boxed version had bugs that were fixed within days of the release of Vegas 5 and made available as a downloadable full installation.

I'm not sure about the trial version, but as far as Vegas is concerned, whenever I do a system reinstall, I always go to Sony's website and download the latest revision of Vegas to do my Vegas install.

I too am curious as to why you're experiencing such slow rendering on a system such as yours. I worked on Macs and FCP for years (since version 1) before I started using Vegas on the PC so I'm fairly familiar with rendering on a mac. I find Vegas render times to be at least on par with FCP and a comprobable Mac system. Nonetheless, the newest G5's do allow FCP to do some mighty fast renders! :)
 
Re: Vegas 4 or 5?

Raw horsepower of a dual 2.4 xeon with 2 gigs and scsi internal drives

vs.

A dual G4 1.2 gig Mac with 512 gigs of ram and two internal ata drives.

You wouldn't think the Mac would kick the tar out of a dual xeon, but that's what seems to happen in my case. I also don't like the method that vegas uses to render, as it seems to recompile the video from start to finish regardless of changes.

Either way, we're not getting a mac here, so I'm stuck with what I've got.
 
Re: Vegas 4 or 5?

[quote author=J_Barnes link=board=Vegas;num=1094578194;start=15#23 date=09/13/04 at 09:38:34]I also don't like the method that vegas uses to render, as it seems to recompile the video from start to finish regardless of changes.[/quote]

That, I agree with. It would be nice to be able to move rendered clips around.
 
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