Vegas 6

flashlight wrote on 10/15/2004, 7:18 AM

Found this at the DVinfo net forum

" Just palyed with HDR-FX1 at VideoExpo 2004

...bottom line: fantastic camera for the money. Latitude seems to be so much better than HD10's; has decent controls (allowing for INDEPENDENT shutter and iris control; skin tone adjustments; overall saturation adjustment; gamma etc.); fantastic programmable focus rack feature at the press of a button. Will buy it as soon as it's available. B&H says, it's at the end of November.

Downside: no software comes with it to acquire the transport strem files into a computer, according to sales floor reps. Sony pushes their Vegas5+CineForm as current acquisition software, at about $550 street according to them. Vegas6 with native m2t capture ability (no CineForm needed) is expected at the same price in April. Adobe should release within weeks (or has already released, depending on whom you are talking to) a patch for PremierePro to natively capture m2t stream from this cam. All this according to Sony reps."

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 10/15/2004, 8:24 AM

Sounds good to me.

JJK

flashlight wrote on 10/15/2004, 9:59 AM

Vegas 6 in April?

rique wrote on 10/15/2004, 11:27 AM

Or maybe it's Vegas 5c. (Or d or e by then.)

Nat wrote on 10/15/2004, 11:36 AM

I doubt we'll see vegas 6 in april, much too early, i'd bet for a letter release.

[r]Evolution wrote on 10/15/2004, 11:48 AM

Letter or Number... just fix some of the bugs in the current version!!!

PH125 wrote on 10/15/2004, 1:18 PM

And if nothing else Sony please give us a more comprehensive and customizable titling tool!

Wolfgang S. wrote on 10/17/2004, 9:32 AM

What should be the brigth new things that could come up with Vegas 6? HD support - that is implemented yet. Better mpeg-cutting support - ok, that will be necessary in future. YUV-rendering - maybe? A storyboard - would be nice.

But that and maybe other small things should go into a letter instead of a number - a number jumb should be driven by more significant changes, since Sony will ask for additional money for version 6. And a new version every 2 years is enough.

mhbstevens wrote on 10/17/2004, 9:42 PM

I'll get the Sony HD cam when it on the street but only if I can get a plugin capture for Vegas 4 that I bough 3 months ago. Will I get it?

SimonW wrote on 10/18/2004, 1:59 AM

Vegas already has YUV rendering. Or am I missing something? There is a Sony YUV codec that comes with Vegas.

The only thing I would really want with Vegas 6 is nested timelines and XDCAM mxf etc support.

swarrine wrote on 10/18/2004, 3:33 AM

"Letter or Number... just fix some of the bugs in the current version!!!"

I second that...

Grazie wrote on 10/18/2004, 7:17 AM

.. ooo I just love these "gum smacking" threads . . . Grazie!

monteolsen1 wrote on 11/6/2004, 11:42 PM

Absolutely right. I am hoping the bean counters aren't taking over and doing to Vegas what they've done to other software/companies. Fix the bugs so V5 works the way it is supposed to!

SeaJohn wrote on 11/7/2004, 6:24 AM

I just want them to put back the stuff they took out - track motion presets, showing paths in Pan/Crop, ...

ken c wrote on 11/7/2004, 11:55 AM

still using V4 for now.. works great

ken

craftech wrote on 11/8/2004, 3:50 AM

Same here. They won't fix the bugs in Vegas 5 because you guys will all run out and buy Vegas 6 anyway same as you did with Vegas 5. Two or three updates and it's time for a new version. Many of the quirks and bugs in Vegas 2.0 are still in 5. For now I know the workarounds and limitations of Vegas 4 and it works with Windows 98SE so I am happy.

John