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Simple Benchmark Premiere v6.5 vs Vegas 4.0B
Hi,
After reading the posts about the lack of speed in Vegas - I was curious to do a simple test myself. I made a 1 min 5 sec long composition in both vegas and premiere. Both projects showing exactly the same, namely 1. Main video stream 2. A Photoshop PSD with alpha channel ( duration 1 min ) 3. Additive dissolve to video clip nr 2 Rendering time: Premiere 1.30 Vegas 1.42 Comments: In my opinion Vegas does a better job with the alpha matte on the PSD. Vegas is also much faster to work with than premiere - What I miss in Vegas is full control - ie. properties->Duration isn't there and many times when Premiere lets you enter an exact number, you have to use the mouse in Vegas. Final word: Today Vegas is the winnner of user-friendliness and Premiere the speed winner. With Premiere 7 around the corner, sonic foundry better sharpen their knifes because I think Premiere will be a killer app! Best regards, Lazze Z Sweden |
Explain the "Properties - Duration" and how it is used (I don't use Premiere). It *may* be there in some fashion. I can think of at least one method (besides scripting) that could, possibly, provide that functionality if it means what it sounds like it means.
The possibility: 1. Add the clip/picture to the timeline. 2. Double-click the clip (to select it) At this point, the timecodes immediatly below the timeline will show Selection Start, Selection End, Selection Length. 3. Double-click the Selection Length 4. Type in the desired time 5. Resize the clip to the new selection boundry Does this do the same thing???? |
Duration allows you to change the length of a clip whether it is
a movie (frame rate changes) or a still picture (number of frames the still is being displayed changes).... |
Does my described technique do the same thing?
(note: for video, you could do it with or without framerate changing) |
It is as Rob says - fast way to set the duration of a still or a clip.
Edward, thanks for the tip - didn't know that I could double click the media then enter values.... the boxes are coloured as READ-only boxes - but they are editable, once again - thanks for the hint! For me, the rendering speed disadvantage of Vegas isn't so important, I try to keep my projects at maximum 20 minutes - so the difference in redering time won't be more than 2-3 minutes... minutes that I earlier saved using Vegas faster GUI. BUT, I wouldn't cry if Vegas 4.0c or 4.1 boosted rendering performance ;-) // Lazze |
It seems to do the same thing indeed from your description,
Edward! |
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