Quick question - is there a format - even if it's "uncompressed" or YUV - which will render video close to or faster than real time on Vegas, that I can then pump out through Badaboom for the final product? This may be a faster workflow than rendering to H.264/AVCHD directly from Vegas.

Any "simple" AVI type should do. HuffYUV or Sony YUV should get you what you want. As for realtime or near real-time, that depends on your computer.

So far, Badaboom hasn't accepted any of the AVI files I have tried to encode. It definitely won't open YUV, HuffYUV, Lagarith, DV or MJPEG AVI files. It will open MPEG2, H.264, HDV, AVCHD, MPG1, VC-1, DivX and WMV.

So far, Badaboom hasn't accepted any of the AVI files I have tried to encode. It definitely won't open YUV, HuffYUV, Lagarith, DV or MJPEG AVI files. It will open MPEG2, H.264, HDV, AVCHD, MPG1, VC-1, DivX and WMV.

Bah, then screw it. 4cores is enough for me right now. If I need to, I'll get some network rendering going with another 4-core computer.

Looked at the product page, seems to only accept highly compressed formats. Not the most useful product for this.

Bah, then screw it. 4cores is enough for me right now. If I need to, I'll get some network rendering going with another 4-core computer.

I've had nothing but trouble with Sony;s network render service. Some times you may not even be able to use multiple cores on a network render job (due to license restrictions.... aka Sony wants more money) so throwing a network render system at the job may not actually help you at all. YMMV