I have managed to find my way round Vegas Studio 10 HD. It`s a little jerky playing back a cross dissolve with AVCHD, so I thought I would upgrade to the new Movie Studio 13 64bit.
Although the download page said Movie Studio Suite 13, it was not the suit that I got, just Studio 13 - no Sound forge or New Blue effects. First impressions are not that good. The interface looks very toy like, but playback of AVCHD dissolves are very smooth.
It takes twice as long to find the stabilizer, and it is much slower than the old version. A six second clip takes 20 seconds, where the old version takes about four.
Rendering a 20min. DV file took 11 min in studio 13, and about six min with studio 10.
This is 64 bit Win7. what am I doing wrong?
Premiere Elements can render the same DV file in just over 3min....
I`m not familiar with the programme but if you were led to believe that you were buying the suite but only got the basic programme with out the extras I would be contacting the vendor/credit card company to ask either let me have what I paid for or refund my dosh!
you John,
I have just upgraded from 12 to 13 edition. The Suite upgrade cost £ 38.96 + Vat . Sound Forge, etc, were all available to download - no problem The basic product costs £ 24.71 + Vat, is this the amount you paid ?. If you paid the higher amount then you do have a case for a refund.
The interface is rather strange particularly with the fade. I also had problems the stabilizer which is a confusing procedure. I do however like the fact that I can make a slide show video for my prints with random dissolves. As far as performance is concerned I have not really noticed any major difference but. From what you say I presume you are using the same video material for your various tests?.
John
Hi John.
I have not paid anything. Just downloaded the trial. I did reply to Barry, but the post seems to have disappeared!
I also find the stabilizer confusing in Vers. 13. It does not work dragging it to the clip, and must be used from the plug in...
I have decided to buy version 13 from Amazon. The price of the suit is £34.99. Some people have paid less and not received all the CD`s in the package, although the content can be downloaded. I believe vers. 12 to be 64bit. My vers. 10 is 32bit.
I have an i7 and 8Gig of ram. It edits very well, but I would like playback of transitions used with AVCHD to be smoother.
Apart from the new interface, and some people have referred to it as having "Fisher Price" buttons, it would seem basically the same as vers. 12, but includes better titles and sound forge. I shall hold on now until tomorrow, but I cannot se this as a "bad" buy.
Movies Studio 12 is what I now have. Unfortunately I have not been too well, and although I intended to get the Suit, I made the mistake.
I didn`t want Sound Forge, although Acid studio may have been interesting. However there are some things that I do not like.
Several choices of titles that do not work. Selecting where you want the title to be on screen always ends up in the wrong place. Thank goodness for the legacy titles that do what you want.
Using the GFX card for rendering, slows everything down. I have a nVidia 8600 GT, and it`s faster with it off. Dynamic RAM default is 200meg. But set it to zero seems to boost performance, but I have only tried it on very short video`s of less than 20 min. Animated titles certainly hold up rendering which can take two times the project length to finish.
I already had DVD Architect, but looking at the files on the CD, there is a 64 bit version. This didn`t load although I opened it, and I still have version 5 32bit.
I am left wondering if the upgrade has made any startling difference!