Spot, are you saying this all in relation to Vegas 4 or the new
version 5?

Sam, I also used Pinnacle 8 since its inception and it ran well except that it scattered titles randomly in a slide show.

Made the switch to Vegas 4 in January. It's an amazing jump in capability. I'm still learning, but having multiple tracks and good audio tools just by themselves was worth the price and time investment.

Highly recommended.

Is there any improved benefit for HDV
 

Douglas, thanks for getting back to me. By the way I read your book and own the video for Vegas 4 (nice work). However, for the purposes of HDV editing is there any benefit to upgrading to Vegas 5. I mean Ulead has a solution and so does premiere (with cineform), but except for their HDV solutions none are as good an NLE than Vegas.

Dwight

Changing the look of the V5 interface with XP Themes
 

Vegas 5 now supports Windows XP themes. I'm not quite sure what that means....whenever I change my bars from (default)blue to silver, to olive green it all changes in the app as well...but it did that before? Maybe the whole blue/silver/olive aren't "Themes"....if not what ARE Themes? What program do you need to change them- Microsoft Plus? What sort of changes are available and how will they change the look of the Vegas interface?

Vegas 5/PluginPac Frame Server
 

Anyone got Satish's frame server to work with Vegas 5?

hmm..

at the Sony site, they offered Graffiti LE as a download...

so i go to install it and its asking for a serial>???

i thought this was free?

padre treks to boris site huffin and puffin.. :(

Graffiti LTD was listed on the downloads page after I bought the ugprade. The email confirming my purchase included a serial number for it.

Dwight: If you have an HD camera you can perhaps try the trial
out of the new Vegas 5 and see for yourself?

That is what microsoft themes is about. You set on theme in
Windows and applications that support it will change to show
the theme in their applications as well.

I have XP setup with the Classic view of Windows 2000 because
I don't like the new look at all. Therefore my Vegas 5 should also
follow this setting (didn't had time to take a look at it yet though).

Rob, there are two sections under the properties menu that change the look of windows. There is the tab that includes "Themes" which I really should be referring to (beings it's "Themes" Vegas 5 supports) and another one in a different tab that can change your colors from Blue (default), to Silver, to Olive. These settings change all colors including the interface in Vegas- thus the reason I was a bit confused beings these settings aren't "Themes". If changing your startbar etc to Blue, Silver, Olive isn't changing the "Theme" then what is?...what IS a Theme exactly?

Granted under Themes I can change it to Windows 2000 (default) like you and see the effects in Vegas.....but that's something that could be done in Vegas 4?! What's the difference now?

Surface Control: V5
 

Will the surface control feature only work with Mackie Control products, or does it support other manufacturers like Tascam etc.?

Does it come with preset templates or do you currently have to assign the pots/sliders/jog to the video functions yourself?

Does it work pretty smoothly with something like the Contour ShuttlePro?

Mackie is supported now. Others are slated to be supported in the future. In fact, you can even use a MOUSE.

You might need to check with Satish at debugmode.com for the details on how to make this work. It may be as simply as simply copying a file from a Vegas 4 folder to a Vegas 5 folder. Then again, he may create an entirely new setup program. Check with him and let us know what he says.

Ed,
I just found out on Satish's forum he needs to update the pluginpac module for 5... In the interim, I will have to do the same as I'm doing for processess with Neon/Excalibur/Tsunami...use Vegas 4 until your updates are posted :-)


Mark

I'm using the standard 4:3 NTSC template