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Timeline Preview - Vegas Pro 8 vs. Premiere CS3

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SCDVD
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Post Posted: Aug 11, 2008 12:12 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote

A friend who is a professional videographer uses Premiere CS3 and the Matrox RT.X2 http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/rtx2/ . The RT.X2 provides a hardware assist that allows real time preview in the editor including filters, effects and transitions. He says this is the one reason that he uses Premiere. It speeds up the editing process or so he says. He isn't a Premiere versus other editors fan-boy. He just wants to easily and quickly preview in his editor. I have heard that Vegas Pro 8 handles previews in the editor differently so it doesn't need a Matrox type hardware assist as much. I haven't used CS3 so I don't have a direct comparison. Does anyone have any insight on this?

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Post Posted: Aug 15, 2008 12:09 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote

This is one of many area's where Vegas Pro is superior to Premiere. Vegas has real time preview out of the box without any addon. Even HD content with any decent computer will show real time previews of most things.

Now, having said that, if you are doing 3D compositing or other advanced stuff, the preview will start to stutter a little. It's decent enough to see what it will look like though.
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SCDVD
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Post Posted: Aug 15, 2008 12:29 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote

I read somewhere although I don't remember where that Vegas breaks the video into segments that allows multi threaded processing that is much faster where Premiere processes the preview as one big "chunk" that can't be processed nearly as quickly.

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