Why we all use Vegas

scharky

scharky

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Just another confirmation for me for why I prefere vegas over other editors out there. Check out the article in this months issue of Digital content producer. It's a simple article talking about multi camera editing, Avid, FCP, Premiere and Vegas were all reviewed. Now I don't do alot of multi cam editing, so I wasn't too enthralled with the article, but pretty much to give you an idea, Vegas tromps the competition on every corner. All of the other editors had at least one or two "inconvieninces" in their editing workflow, while vegas over and over was said to be intuitive, and easy to work with. Just a little congrats to those over at Vaast who made the multi cam edit for vegas, and to sony for keeping things simple. Why can't the others learn the benefits of uncomplicated and not overly produced software. :)
 
Scharky,
I'm with you on this. Vegas is simply awesome and simplified at the same time. Why do other programs seem to make things hard - I don't know. When I started to research which nle to get I found the common denominator to Vegas which was it was affordable. Then as I looked closer I realized it had all of the features that I would want/need from this kind of software. I would love to see more filter effects on it though but other than that I'm really happy with it.
Jgastelb
 
I can drop anything on a time line anywhere and it works.


It doesn't crash. (As I am doing more and more paid work, this really matters.)


It's cheep, comparatively.
 
and you dont have to activate or arm tracks to move things around like in shmavid, and dont forget the awesome upgrade pricing. And its brother (the musician in the family) Acid Pro is the best its ever been.
 
My previous experience had been editing with glue and tape (Really) on Super 8. I had toyed with Premiere before in Demo's and have sat through on FCP a few times but VEGAS just is so easy it's stupid

Just makes sense and has never confounded me .
 
I learned to edit in Premiere and it never felt intuitive. With Vegas, editing became more of a joy and less of a chore.
 
Editing with a real-time looping going on the timeline WHILE YOU EDIT! Now that is the bomb, try that in some of the other editors sometime. LOL!
 
I guess I'll join the vegas love-fest here. I was a diehard premiere user, until I decided I needed to upgrade from 6.5 - after the sticker shock, I decided I might try something else, and Vegas was answer.

I bought the mentioned plugin (Ultimate S from VASST) but I got it for a whole 'nother reason - there is an incredible photo montage tool on there that was worth the price alone.
 
RokMartian said:
I guess I'll join the vegas love-fest here. I was a diehard premiere user, until I decided I needed to upgrade from 6.5 - after the sticker shock, I decided I might try something else, and Vegas was answer.

I bought the mentioned plugin (Ultimate S from VASST) but I got it for a whole 'nother reason - there is an incredible photo montage tool on there that was worth the price alone.
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I think those ReelPaks are pretty nifty, too . . . :)
 
I do multi camera shoots more than single ones, and it's very easy to work with.

It's too easy not to work with it. I cant figure why people brag about AVID and FCP and Premiere. That's like bragging about driving around the block to get to your refrigerator.

Sure, you can do it, but why the hell would you?
 
Rapier_100a said:
It's too easy not to work with it. I cant figure why people brag about AVID and FCP and Premiere. That's like bragging about driving around the block to get to your refrigerator.

Sure, you can do it, but why the hell would you?
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you my friend have just given me a quote to put on my posts!
 
Man after starting this thread I feel almost as bad as a mac guy :) Not AS bad, but almost, but at least vegas doesn't make cheesy commercials.
 
Here's the link to the article:
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/workflow/multicam_roundup_part/

While I wouldn't exactly say Vegas "tromps the competition", it does get a pretty good review. Mostly, it's paired with Premier Pro when its multicam methodology is being described. Other than that, the only fault attributed to Vegas is that it doesn't have built-in color-matching tools, but goes it goes on to say that VASST plans to release a color-matching plugin for Vegas/Premier Pro mid-2006 (interesting...).

I'm actually surprised to see Vegas included in a review of NLE's and their multi-cam abilities as it's usually left out of most articles due to its lack of native multi-cam functionality while most of the other NLE's in its class have it built-in. Considering that Vegas requires a plugin/script for this functionality, it really has less to do with Vegas, and more to do with the plugin developers. This is something I really hope Sony remedies in their next release, because even though I too am a user of VASST's great multi-cam tools, I really would like something built into the interface/workflow. While VASST's tools are great and they're the best we've got right now, it would not be a bad thing to get a native multi-cam tool in Vegas.

If Sony did it right, a native Vegas multi-cam tool would give us many of the things we wished we could have with VASST tools (but aren't accessible via scripting)
- Automatic synchronization of multiple cams using timecode
- True camera switching via Keyboard OR clicking on the camera's image in the preview window (not creating markers on the timeline and then running another script to process the video based on those markers)
- etc.

Don't get me wrong, I use tools from VASST on a daily basis, but it would still be very nice to get this functionality natively.
 
Its funny that the author of this piece is none other then Jan Ozer, who has spend a good portion of his career mis-reviewing Vegas and other NLE's---I guess he is wearing a differennt hat reviewing for this publication.
 
Vegas+DVD has a couple of real nice benefits for a prosumer.

Easy to use
Almost all the feutures the premerie&co has
Some feutures premiere&co dont have
A price thats less then a third of its competitors
 
Well, I learned it when I had just turned 11, I think that explains the user friendlyness. :)

I just love Vegas, it does everything you want it to do, (almost) never crashes and it's soo cheap.
 
I'm with all of you guys on this, I've been using Vegas since 4.0... Vegas is awesome, everything is so easy and so fluent, making changes to a project is a snap.

People always brag about Final Cut Pro and Avid and I don't understand why... Sure it's industry standard, sure it takes in any kind of media, but doing simple tasks takes more time in those programs than it ever would in Vegas. I've used both systems, I use an Avid MediaComposer at my job ABC15. I still prefer Vegas for side projects.

My only complaint about Vegas right now is they need support for the HVX. Yes, I know they have Raylight and ConnectHD, but they need to put in a realtime plugin so you can download the clips off of the HD or P2 cards and put them directly in the timeline.
 
You know, I've used Avid for about four years and have never had it crash on me, and when things have glitched, I've had no problem recovering everything. Vegas sounds intriguing, but I want to stick to what I know for now, which is Avid, and perfect my skillset on there.
 
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