Thats a lot of cuts.

Yeah, music videos are fast-paced usually in terms of scenes.

Cool. Now you just need one of those SSD drives. Have you considered it ?

SSD drives are too slow for the job. In video editing it’s important to have fast drives, like regular ones. They’re cheaper too, since we need lots of space.

Looks great. I like how you have set things up. How well do you find the PC performs will the 6 gigs of ram? I’ve been holding out for a good quad core system, but yours seems to be able to handle about anything.

As I mention above, I am using 32bit versions of apps in the 64bit OS for plugin/codec backwards compatibility reasons, so none of the apps use more than 2-3 GBs.

Switch to Windows 7, I am working with W7 64bit and it is amazing compared to Vista, It works very well with Vegas 64bit, I have same problem too with the plugin/codecs.

Logitech??? High-quality ??? Jajaja, go and get a true speakers like GENELEC

what kind of nvidia card do you use?

>Switch to Windows 7

No, Vegas and its plugins have not been tested for it. I am not 28 anymore, trying to hop from one OS to another. I need things that are known to work for what I do.

>Logitech??? High-quality ???

The specific speakers were good.

>what kind of nvidia card do you use?

A 8600GTS I believe. More than enough, since Vegas doesn’t support PureVideo2 anyway.

What’s the model number on that Vizio? Looks like it has a nice picture.

I actually want to replace it because of what I describe here.

Eh, that’s too bad. If you find something nice let me know.

Just out of curiosity: why not Macs, technically speaking?

Cheers!

Because I like the usability of Sony Vegas compared to FCP/Premiere.

I wonder about one thing regarding preview monitors for video editing – you seem to want something “nice”; but vast majority of people will get POS ones. Is it still more important to make the video look good on fine quality one? (perhaps because cheap ones are too “random” to target them anyway?)

The monitors I use are cheap. They work fine.

Sony Vegas vs. FCP/Premiere
Can you define “usability”? is it performance? ease of use?
just trying to make some expensive decisions. Your help is very useful and trustworthy… thanks.

Ease of use.

That was my question. How good is the Vizio for color correction/grading?

I’m also looking for an extra monitor…

I gave a link above about it.

looks wicked!

Love your blog.

Two questions.

1. What would you replace the vizio with?

2. How did you calibrate the vizio for preview?

Thanks

>1. What would you replace the vizio with?

Any monitor that doesn’t have its problems.

>2. How did you calibrate the vizio for preview?

I didn’t. I used it in its default configuration. The whole point is to be able to look good on normal TVs. And since people don’t change their default color settings (which are usually over-saturated and over-contrasty in order to sell better to housewives), there’s no point calibrating anything.

Thanks

“…there’s no point calibrating anything.” – Eugenia

Ha!

If you are doing pro work, calibration is important. If you are cutting for the web, friends, and family, no, there’s no point calibrating since all their TVs will be jacked up on saturation and contrast like hell. That’s the reality of it. Each TV manufacturer is setting all that up differently.

Are you using an analog or digital connection from the computer to the Vizio? Have you tried both?

I am using DVI-2-HDMI. I don’t want to use VGA.