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Email: sales@dvc.uk.com - Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9.30-5.30 HardwareOnline Catalogue | EDITING PROGRAMS | Sony Vegas | Sony Vegas | Hardware |  | | | Add extra hardware to get video in and out of Vegas...Sony Vegas is supported by Black Magic cards - which range from the Intensity Pro which had component, composite, SVIDEO and HDMI in and out, to the Decklink Extreme which has the same i/o as well as HD-SDI. Add a Black Magic card and Vegas performs in exactly the same way as it does without except you can see your edit in full quality on a proper video monitor attached to your computer. Given that the Intensity Pro is only £125 +VAT it is almost criminal not to have this card in your computer! If you buy a Black Magic card we can also supply it with an OEM version of Vegas, which is considerably cheaper than buying the full version - its actually cheaper to buy Vegas with the Intensity Pro, for example, than to buy just the software. You can only buy the OEM version of Vegas with a Black Magic card or with a computer system. The OEM version is a full copy of Vegas with DVD Architect, with full upgrade rights - in other words exactly the same thing as it would be if you bought the boxed product. The manuals will be in PDF version, not printed. Without the hardware Vegas will playback all the video on your computer screen. It does have a way of taking over the output from a second monitor attached to the graphic card and displaying a full HD picture on this screen. Vegas is not unique in this ability as Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer can do exactly the same thing. However, this will always be a picture displayed on a computer monitor, not a picture which is displayed in proper video colour space via a card like the Intensity Pro. It also means that you can only use one computer screen for the program and another for the output, and like all video programs Vegas benefits from having more screen space to spread out (ie having two computer screens and 1 video output screen). |
| | Capture formats with Black Magic cardsSony Vegas with capture video from DV or HDV with no extra hardware, and will also accept various card based formats - form more information see our section about video format support in Vegas. Add a Black Magic card and you can capture into different formats: MJPEGThe is an "old fashioned" format that has the advantage of being relatively small -so even with HD footage a normal SATA drive can cope with the amount of data. It has a fixed compression rate which means that it only does one quality level and if you look closely you will see artefacts on high detail areas. Its not a bad format to use but does not give optimum quality. Uncompressed 8 bit and 10 bitUncompressed video is the best quality - with both 8 bit and 10 bit options. The difference is that 10 bit gives better colour definition, and will take up more space. As both are uncompressed they will take up a lot of space on the hard drive. Modern hard drives can copy with standard definition uncompressed footage, but not with High definition uncompressed footage - an hour of uncompressed 8 bit footage will take about 400GB hard drive space and you will need to "stripe" two drives together for them to be fast enough to capture into this format. 10 bit uncompressed is worse. If you want to be able to capture into uncompressed it would be good to add a device like aSonnet RAID box to your system. Sony MXF 422In Vegas there is another format into which you can capture - Sony MXF. This does not work at all resolutions - for example it will not work at 720P, but for 1080i and standard definition this is a good option. It can be captured onto a normal hard drive (so does not need a RAID) and can manage a high quality picture. |
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