Screw Premiere - I'm switching to Vegas

Alright so which is it, I respect all of you and the ups and downs of Premier, Avid and Vegas. I just would like to know, "What's the best one to go with?" Sorry I benifit from your frustrations.
 
As in all such questions, there is no one "best" one. There is only the "best one for you", and every individual's circumstances are different.
 
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filmguy123 said:
When I say Vegas is on more of a consumer level, I mean that it does everything most consumers want it to do - and very well - BUT, not everything professional users want and need it to do.
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Fair so far, lets see

filmguy123 said:
how many of you work on large projects between a team and share assests
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So are you saying that you can not install multiple copies of Vegas on a LAN network and not be able to share media assets?


filmguy123 said:
exchange EDLs
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Vegas does export CMX Format EDL (Since Version 5, perhaps even Version 4):

its under:

Tools>Scripting


filmguy123 said:
output to film
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I assume again a question of EDL export (which has already been clarified).

Anhar,
 
I'm a photography hobbyist. I started with SceenBlaster when Sony just took it over (2002?) and then I bought a used Sony Vegas 4, upgraded a few times and here I am Sony Vegas 7. I did not upgrade to 8. I've run Vegas on four different machines and can honestly say it never locked up or crashed. It did fail to boot one time, but I was running several applications, I re-booted and all was good. I tried several NLE's and DVD authoring programs (That use to be separate issues). We had Premiere on two systems at a facility I worked at, but never really used it. At that time, Adobe Premiere was just too expensive for me to buy for my hobby. I do not find all aspects of Vegas to be intuitive, and the provided manual is inadequate, so I bought some books. There were other NLE's which I would have liked to have used which were less expensive but I always seemed to have problems with (crashing, locking up etc). As long as Vegas remains as reliable for me as it has been for 5+ years, I will stay with it...



Rich
 
I'm going to also agree that Vegas seems to be the simplest, easiest, and most intuitive NLE. But, it doesn't quite have all the capabilities that some of the other NLE's have. But I find if you couple it with something like Adobe After Effects, all of your editing needs are taken care of. I find I can edit faster in Vegas than any other program. Not to mention, Vegas is great for lining up audio in too. Such big tracks makes everything so easy to see :)
 
JakeB said:
I find I can edit faster in Vegas than any other program.
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Sounds a lot like what almost any editor will say about the program they learned first :)

Everything is relative. If you're stuck up picking which program to use you're missing the point entirely.

Get something. Vegas, Premiere, Avid, FCP, or even Edius. Then use it, and make your work. If it doesn't work out, find something else.

No amount of discussion will EVER settle or give much perspective beyond which programs are industry standard.


This thread should have died a long long time ago (and it did, too! :beer:)
 
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