Sony Vegas Requirements

A lot of people asks me what software d I use for developing montage videos. the answer is sony vegas. It used to be sonic foundry vegas but sony bought the software thus the name changed. The followings is a blog post by Eugenia about the requirements for installing the software. I hope this info will be helpful.

Don’t believe Sony’s own “minimum requirements” lists. These are sub-minimum in reality. While other NLEs are able to work with DV or HDV requiring fewer resources (e.g. iMovie is one of them), Vegas is a beast (although it is not as demanding as Premiere/AfterEffects). Here’s what you need to work without headaches:

For miniDV (720x480i, Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 ):

- Any CPU released after 2003.
- 1 GB RAM minimum (1.5 GBs will be optimal).
- 120+ GB IDE NTFS-formatted hard drive (don’t forget to delete your temp/storage files after rendering the final).
- Windows XP. Their version 8 software doesn’t work perfectly on Vista yet.
- Any DirectX 9+ 64MB+ graphics card.
- A 1440x900 LCD monitor or above (1280x1024 will be pushing it to fit the UI).
- In the Settings/Video preference panel, make sure the “dynamic RAM” is set to 256 MBs.

For HDV (1440x1080i, Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum):

- Any CoreDuo or higher CPU (basically, any CPU developed on 2006 onwards that was not a Celeron-class). My own 3 Ghz P4-Hyperthreaded CPU from March 2005 is pushing its limits with HDV on Vegas.
- 2 GB RAM minimum (3 GBs will be optimal).
- Two SATA NTFS-formatted hard drives. The system 120+ GB drive will hold the “temp” files, while all other work, rendering and archiving should be done on the second, 500 GB SATA disk.
- Windows XP Pro. Their version 8 software doesn’t work perfectly on Vista yet.
- Any DirectX 9+ 128MB+ graphics card.
- A 1680x1050 LCD monitor.
- In the Settings/Video preference panel, make sure the “dynamic RAM” is set to 512 MBs.
- A PCI/PCI-express sound card (meaning, not on-board AC-97 crap).

For full HD (1920x1080p, Sony Vegas 7):

- The highest-end CPU(s) you can find in the market.
- 4 GB RAM.
- Two SATA NTFS-formatted hard drives. The system 250 GB drive will hold the “temp” files, while all other work, rendering and archiving should be done one the second, 500 GB SATA disk.
- Windows XP Pro. Their version 8 software doesn’t work perfectly on Vista yet.
- Any DirectX 9+ 128MB+ graphics card.
- A 1680x1050 LCD monitor or above.
- In the Settings/Video preference panel, make sure the “dynamic RAM” is set to 768 MBs.
- A good PCI/PCI-express sound card.

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