sony video products

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can someone explain the basic differences between sony vegas 6 ($99 at b&H?) & sony VIDEO MOVIE STUDIO 7 + DVD platinum about the same price (new egg) can you work with mpeg2 in any sony?

[edDV]

Depends how you define "work on"

Most editors including those two must decode MPeg2 in order to "work on" them so you always will loose a generation (decode - process - encode again to MPeg2).

If all you want to do is cut MPeg2, there are solutions like Womble's MPeg2VCR that will natively edit MPeg2 with the only regenerated frames being those between the I frames at the cut.

If you want this kind of technology extended to effects editing and transitions, then look at Mainconcept's "MPEG Elements" $59 plug-in for Premiere Elements 2.0. http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=6875
It will keep MPeg2 first generation except those frames that you process.

Unlike DV format, Mpeg2 has significant losses with each generation loss. If you don't care about this, then most editors (including free ones like Virtualdubmod) will work on Mpeg2 so long as you have a MPeg2 encoder and decoder installed.

[dwill123]

The short answer is basically the two are functionally the same (editing wise - unless you're talking about HD). Vegas 6 is the full (prosumer) version of the Sony product "Studio" is the consumer level product. "Studio" will give much of what most basic (home) user's needs to handle most home videos. The full version includes many more of the features that a "pro" level user may require\desire. Use the two url's below to comapare differences between products:

Studio vs Full version comparison

full version Vegas 7 new features compared to full version Vegas 6

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so you're saying vegas in any form only uses avi? so any file that is inputted will have to be converted by it? i seem to have read that in the authoring part of movie studio that there is a 8000kps limit on dvd where maybe the regular vegas 6 may not have that limit. what other difference would there be between vegas 6 & movie studio 7 platinum? can you export avi files from sony & save to be encoded in que enc instead?

[edDV]

so you're saying vegas in any form only uses avi? so any file that is inputted will have to be converted by it?

Vegas 6 is native uncompressed or DV. With the included Cineform codec it will also work with HDV (high definition MPeg2) with very low multi-generation loss. Any other MPeg2 source is decompressed during import. Same is true for most other editing software other than the Premiere Elements solution mentioned above and much more expensive pro solutions.

i seem to have read that in the authoring part of movie studio that there is a 8000kps limit on dvd where maybe the regular vegas 6 may not have that limit. what other difference would there be between vegas 6 & movie studio 7 platinum? can you export avi files from sony & save to be encoded in que enc instead?

I doubt Movie Studio has that limitation but I don't have one to check. Movie studio is more streamlined and much easier to use. Full Vegas will take time to learn but has more high end features.

If you mean DV-AVI files, either program handle DV directly if you specify a DV format project.

"AVI" is a container only and can mean any of a hundred things. You need to be specific about what compression format you mean.

[BJ_M]

so you're saying vegas in any form only uses avi? so any file that is inputted will have to be converted by it? i seem to have read that in the authoring part of movie studio that there is a 8000kps limit on dvd where maybe the regular vegas 6 may not have that limit. what other difference would there be between vegas 6 & movie studio 7 platinum? can you export avi files from sony & save to be encoded in que enc instead?

Vegas will work directly with most any type of quicktime file, some flash files, many avi type files, mpeg1 and 2 files, transport stream files (.ts) , jpeg , targa, png, photoshop files, cineform, blackmagic (qt) and many others .. all are a direct import ...

vegas does not have a bitrate limit on mpeg2 (within the specs of mpeg2 - you can make a 80,000 mpeg2 file if you want to) --- but dvds do have a limit ...