From Sony's point if they wish to promote an even wider acceptance of the XDCam file based work flow and help sales of XDCam hardware the more complete Vegas becomes Sony can only benefit. To help towards that end uncompressed support of SD and HD is important. We shoot almost exclusively with XDCam and edit native MXF, have done so now for the last two years. Yet for network delivery we still have to deliver on Digi-Beta for SD and HDCam for HD. This requires SDI / HDSDI uncompressed I/O.
I look with a certain amount of envy towards Premiere and FCP with their wider range of hardware interfacing. Sad when you stop to think that Vegas is as good and in many ways far better than either of those as a craft editor. Without further hardware interfacing Vegas as good as it is will float around on the edge of the Pro market and sadly will never quite fulfil its true potential.
I agree with that 100%. I really like Vegas, and I think they are sitting on a winner. I just wish they would quit sitting on it, and develop it instead.
I wanted to get an AG-HPX170 (P2 card), but Sony won't support it. The camera I want after that (AG-HPX300) is also a P2 card machine. Does Sony they think they are going to force me either to go P2, or go XD-cam? They are wrong on both counts.
I have started writing Sony directly, on their Product Suggestion line.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/productsuggestion.asp
Hopefully they can figure out that when they fail to give their customers good third-party hardware and software support, they are just shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot.
