After being an advocate for SONY Vegas since version 7, the latest iteration has become too unreliable to rely upon in my video post production work.
The last project I shot and started initially editing in Vegas Pro 9  resulted in a mess in trying to edit content that had been transcoded to Cineform Neo Scene [...]

Those who read this blog know that I am a Vegas Pro user and I have my reasons for it that apply specifically to self contained video shooters.  One of the weaknesses of Vegas is editing the native m2t files, which eat up CPU cycles.  My understanding is, editing AVCHD is even worse.  CineForm has [...]

I recently became aware of the ability of Adobe’s Flash Player having the capability of playing mpeg4 video’s.
Why, when there has been such great success with On2’s VP6 codec would Adobe make this feature available?
My conclusion is because mpeg4 is a superior format to native flv at the cost of slightly larger file sizes.

One of the weaknesses of Vegas Pro is its inability to render Adobe Flash Video files within the application itself.
FLV files are the defacto standard for web video content distribution. I discovered a way to create FLV’s via frameserving from Vegas Pro to On2’s Flix Pro.

I recently posted a question on the Vegas forums about what Adobe’s After Effects is and is there a real need to learn this very powerful application.
When all was said and done, the answer, at least for those working as a solo video journalist, is not really.
Here’s why: