Screw Premiere - I'm switching to Vegas
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marketmd
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That is so typical of them, like with their laptops sporting the stupid Memory Stick for so long and no SD slots.
commalot
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From my experience almost all the problems I've had with applications, both video and music, turned out to be compatibility issues. The programs themselves work well. I use my computer for everything; video, music, internet. There's one particular sampling program from Tascam that when put on the same computer with a bunch of other stuff causes frequent crashes. Tascam, however, warns you of this.
Dave M.
Dave M.
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
That was a joke Jade. Try and not take things too seriously when it comes to discussing an NLE. But I do apologize if I offended you :beer:
Some people like Premiere, some like FCP and the rest of the all knowing like Vegas.
See, that was another joke ! :cheesy:
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But really, no matter what your preference is, Vegas seems to be designed by people who actually edit.
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J.R. Hudson
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heh heh
He said panzy
He said panzy
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
It's funny
Dave showed me some FCP and Vegas comparisons the other day (Yes, Dave has an IMac and FCP in his house) and something as simple as splitting a clip and creating a transition in FCP seemed to be like jumping over fences whereas Vegas was like Hit S, Click and Drag = Done
That's all I want. I just want simple and efficient.
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I have found all of Adobes products to be simply not making sense. I use Photoshop (who does not?) and am atleast intermediate but to this day am constantly saying 'What the hell ... that's lame'
Dave showed me some FCP and Vegas comparisons the other day (Yes, Dave has an IMac and FCP in his house) and something as simple as splitting a clip and creating a transition in FCP seemed to be like jumping over fences whereas Vegas was like Hit S, Click and Drag = Done
That's all I want. I just want simple and efficient.
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I have found all of Adobes products to be simply not making sense. I use Photoshop (who does not?) and am atleast intermediate but to this day am constantly saying 'What the hell ... that's lame'
cecil995
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The only advantage to running something like fcp, premiere, or avid ( which I find to have a much larger learning curve than the others) is that you have a better chance of getting a job in a post house, cause I see very little postings out there listing vegas experience. I'm not discrediting vegas at all, I have never used it but a friend of mine has had sucess with it, just that it has not made its way into the professional world yet.
But.....if you are just doing your own thing, then use what you are most comfortable with. They all basically do the same thing.
But.....if you are just doing your own thing, then use what you are most comfortable with. They all basically do the same thing.
Capt Quirk
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I have yet to see a serious position that required Premiere. Avid and FCP, yes. Shake, Smoke and Combustion too.
cecil995
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There are some out there. Really, AE and Photoshop are really the most popular adobe softwares used out there.
Giving people an update here. One of the reasons I hated Premiere was that it wouldn't capture video from any camcorder I set it up with. I always had to use another program. People "in the know" discredited me as an imbocile and said I was having hardware issues. Hmm, well, first time I ever tried capturing with Vegas (HD footage mind you), it just recognized my camera right away and started capturing. Imagine that.
I sat there in shock because I was waiting for someone to jump around the corner and go "just kidding" and my computer would crash. But it just worked. Amazing.
I sat there in shock because I was waiting for someone to jump around the corner and go "just kidding" and my computer would crash. But it just worked. Amazing.
It doesn't mean that at all. What it does mean is that your current system configuration happens to be in the acceptable range for Vegas. There's all sorts of factor that can screw with your programs, and it's not always a question of better or worst hardware. I've had softwares before that'll refused to work unless I change the RAM brand. Older versions of Premiere can sometimes stop working when you have certain codecs installed.
The only conclusion you can draw is that your computer is incompatible with Premiere; it's possible there's a piece of hardware that doesn't play nice or some software that's screwing with it. If you post your system specs I'm willing to bet that someone on here (possibly even me) is running a worse rig yet have Premiere working just fine.
Heck, the first time I ran PP 2.0 was on a 2.4 Ghz single core computer with 1.5 GB of RAM and I could still edit HDV.
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in the issue of fairness, I will continue to post both the good and the bad of Vegas. I have just run into my first problem. After importing all of my footage, all of it plays very stuttery. I'm not sure whether this is a simple preference I am overlooking, or something more final. Either way, I am still not able to edit my footage. Going on over 20 days now.