I agree, Set. Made me appreciate the software even more, when the features and benefits in relation to the universe of NLEs were pointed out.

That's a good article. Many of us got hooked on Sonic Foundry through Soundforge XP, which packed free with Soundblaster cards in the early 1990s.

Vegas Video 2 came out soon after, and the rest is history.

i started making money with 4, and though worked with other nle's on and off for many years, always came back to vegas, until its future looked uncertain and rumours were rife. looking for an alternative i ended up with resolve - though nowhere as intuitive and as fast as working in vegas, it offered excellent support and development. i still use vegas 13 for basic rough cutting of long form interviews and such like,

i would happily say that vegas contributed a great deal to my comfortable retirement (well, not quite fully retired as yet ;-)

After viewing the auto return and video reset during playback, the snaps, the out of sink pink video track colors, and the quickie fades what more could you want?

JJK

I am using Vegas Pro to edit my first feature length film, and the more I use it, the more I have come to appreciate it. All the controls are intuitive to me now. I can easily and quickly edit a relatively complex project with multiple video and audio tracks and rarely does the program crash or freeze up on me. I tried using Premiere and even Resolve, but hated the Premiere layout and placement of controls. I also found Resolve to be sluggish and it has nowhere near the editing features Vegas has. And for sound, as the article mentions, Vegas excels, and let's not forget sound quality is more important than video! In fact, for me, the first sign of a professional production is professional sound.

I realize Vegas has had some bumps in the road and there are some haters out there, but for me, it remains a fantastic editing program. I also keep in mind that the most profitable movie in history was edited on Vegas, and that was Paranormal Activity. And by profitable, I mean return on investment profitable. So it is a very capable program, especially for independent filmmakers such as myself.

@karma17 👏

Do you have a trailer of your feature length film? Love to see yours!

Not yet, but soon. We shot from Feb to June, and I started editing on Aug 1. The film will be about 90 minutes, and I'm at the 80 min. mark right now. But once I get closer, I will send you something. We shot the entire thing with the Sony A7S and the images look good straight out of the camera. With just modest grading, they look even better. Vegas seems to work very well with A7S codec too. I've learned that it takes about 10 weeks to edit the first cut of a film. Attached a screen grab from one scene.