Questions about ulead video studio & Vegas movie studio

[janeydoll]

I have been using ulead to make my scenes & dvd lab (free trial) to make my menu's.

I just got the trial of vegas movie studio 6.0 & it won't let me play my scenes so I don't know what all you can do with vegas if I wanted to buy it.

What can you do with the video in vegas? I'm still new to authoring so keep it simple.

I like the way vegas looks, but can you still get just the scenes you want, like you can in ulead?

Can you still make the little montages if you want like you can in unlead?

If there are differences, please tell me.

which one is the best?

Is there anything better than dvd lab for making the menus, I want to be able to use my own pictures for the menu backgrounds.

thanks

[janeydoll]

I will be waiting for some replies, i need to buy one of these this week, so i need to know which one is the best.

please reply

[BJ_M]

well i think vegas is better ... but many like ulead ...

maybe for a new user , ulead is prob, easier to use -- though vegas is not hard to use or learn ...

[harley2ride]

I've used Ulead and Vegas (Vegas 5). I have to agree with BJ. Ulead is pretty easy, and does a good job. But Vegas has a lot more versatility, and power. If you are willing to spend about two hours working the tutorials, you can become fairly proficient with Vegas. If you try without spending time on the tutorials, you WILL struggle. If you just need to convert an avi to mpeg with minor editing and menu stuff, then Ulead is great. But if you need frame accurate editing, and want fancy transitions and menus, Vegas is the way to go.

[janeydoll]

any more opinions on which one of these programs is better?

[GeorgeW]

For comparison's sake which versions are we talking about

Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus vs. Vegas MovieStudio 6.0 + DVD Architect Studio (regular or Platinum)? I see a reference to Vegas 5.0 -- and that is in a different category than VideoStudio

Regards,
George

[edDV]

I can't speak to the Vegas Movie Studio (consumer entry version) but I use ULead Video Studio 9 mostly for editing MPeg2 TV captures and Vegas6+DVD for my DV projects.

The expensive Vegas, like most prosumer programs assumes a high quality to MPeg2 work flow rather than the reverse. Big Vegas is not as good for editing MPeg2 sources and has no MPeg2 capture or AC3 audio import..

I like the general flexibility of ULead VS9 for realtime MPeg2 capture and "smart render" MPeg2 editing. The AC3 import features are nice too. I don't use it for effects editing. Maybe the consumer Vegas includes these features but big Vegas does not. I'm not sure about consumer Vegas.

So get Vegas if your project flow is uncompressed, DV or HDV format to DVD. The effects editing and filtering are superior.

If you are looking for realtime capture with software MPeg2 encoding (fast CPU required) or if you are editing DVD recorder or DVD camcorder material, you might like Video Studio better.

[slacker]

edDV,

I concur Vegas 6.0d isn't necessarily the best mpeg2 editor. And since I just received a 'press kit' copy of Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus and I do occasionally edit mpeg2, would you happen to know if it is safe to run both Vegas 6.0d and VS 10 on the same machine?

Thanks...

[BJ_M]

actually vegas is a very good mpeg2 editor , but it will recompress it just like ulead .. UNLESS it is a HDV stream - those it will recompress the parts only that require it (smart rendering) ...




you can run them both on the same machine though ...


and contrary to editdv - vegas imports ac3 just fine , 2 or 5.1 .. vegas also imports AVC formats also -- as well as export for ipod and psp or and many other formats ...

[edDV]

and contrary to editdv - vegas imports ac3 just fine , 2 or 5.1 .. vegas also imports AVC formats also -- as well as export for ipod and psp or and many other formats ...

I haven't attempted any DVD reauthoring projects in Vegas yet so I missed a few of the new features of the last release.

Best to sort out your workflow and then try VS10 and the Low/High Vegas demos to see which works best for you.

[canadateck]

Will import 5.1 but only as 2.

[canadateck]

actually vegas is a very good mpeg2 editor , but it will recompress it just like ulead .. UNLESS it is a HDV stream - those it will recompress the parts only that require it (smart rendering) ...




you can run them both on the same machine though ...


and contrary to editdv - vegas imports ac3 just fine , 2 or 5.1 .. vegas also imports AVC formats also -- as well as export for ipod and psp or and many other formats ...

I couldnt find anything on this (smart rendering), Do you have a link to read up on? Thanks

[GeorgeW]

actually vegas is a very good mpeg2 editor , but it will recompress it just like ulead .. UNLESS it is a HDV stream - those it will recompress the parts only that require it (smart rendering) ...

Actually, Ulead does not re-encode mpeg2 like Vegas does. It does a good job at smart rendering both SD mpeg2 as well as HDV mpeg2.

Vegas MovieStudio offers a great upgrade path to Vegas -- the interface is very similar so there will be less of a learning curve if you plan to move to the "pro" version.

If all that's needed is regular editing and authoring, then I think VideoStudio 10 Plus offers the most "bang for the buck"

Regards,
George