The funny thing is he joined this forum 9 years ago, and THIS is his only post. I think we can safely say that HE is not a pro.

FCPX 20 % and vegas 80...hmmm why is premiere in your future...lol
ever tried it, how about the others...is FCPX bad,,
anyway I make a living with Vegas, but have other programs,, er I mean Apps...but serves me still and will for a while I believe, and 13 is very stable for me.

I have used it for the last 36 episodes of a live music/interview style show that airs every week on Fuse TV. I don't know if that makes me a professional, or me just tired. I know Vegas works though. To be honest, I'd try other editors if they would follow Sony's navigation workflow. Just the fact that I can click anywhere, zoom to center, do many things with single key combos (S) and handle audio EXTREMELY well is honestly keeps me here. I can make anything look great in any editor, It's just the steps to do it are what's most important to me.

As much as I love and keep defending Vegas in every discussion with FCX , Premiere and whatnot users, Vegas ' preview is just terrible. It is its weakest and utmost frustrating element. Nio only for me, during my work, but because I always have to explain the occasionally present client why everything looks like **** right now but will eventually look normal and really good once rendered...
FX, especially NB titler pro 4, grading etc will instantly bring the preview down to its knees and sometimes make it literally impossible to judge the quality of what I'm doing, and I run most with intense processing in the weakest preview modes to keep te preview flowing at all.
32GB ram, i7 3,3mhz 6-core, Radeon X 290.

Some time ago I tried out some 50mb/s 25p XAVCS files from my Sony A7S - just simple viewing mind you, nothing else at all running. Preview, especially pans, stuttered. Downloaded the Edius 8 tryout version - XAVCS runs perfectly, even with titles , fades and FX on top of it!
Don't like Edius' worklfow as much as V13 tho, Vegas just isn't beatable in terms of intuitiveness and workflow, but I'll buy Edius just because of the preview.
Don't even want to think about previewing and working with 4k in V13.

Obviously the preview experience varies a lot depending on footage type, the number and type of effects, titles, etc so YMMV.


... but I just wanted to chime-in and mention that I get full frame rate 1920 x 1080 previews of 4K GH4 footage even with color correction applied (curves, levels, etc.) and that is with a 5 year old computer (it is well specced though).

Both Vegas and Catalyst seem to like MXF footage and of course you can automatically create proxies in Vegas that play back really well. ( Does Edius pre-render in the background to get good playback performance?)

If the preview 'felt heavy' (like recent DJI Osmo UHD footages), right click on that footage in Project Media tab > Create Video Proxy...

Set

I work with XAVC-I MFX 4K 29.97p files which are converted files from an AX100 and they work fine at best/full. Hardware is very important for Vegas.

Darn Troll you are keithdbf.... One post you ever made, and this is it.
Then you rant and rave with mis-guided information and nonsense.

keithdbf, well ? you got info, but no response ....learn anything, or just playing with a bunch of people donating their time for you.......kind of think Steve is right.

So keithdbf who posted for the first time ever, if vegas pro is lacking then why use it for 80% of your work as you mentioned? Wouldn't be %20. It doesn't make sense.

If you know vegas well then you would know that it serves television broadcast editors, filmmakers, corporate/ commercial producers and other media creators. If you know much about audio then you would also know that vegas pro kicks all NLE's butts in audio features, automation, plugin support and 5.1 surround sound.

You don't need to troll.

This thread is like a stray cat showing up just once to the back door, and many well-meaning people falling over themselves rushing to feed the cat...

Even dumb questions have answers. Of course pros use Vegas.

We've been using Sony Vegas for all our productions.
www.lavette.se

..... and the re-disappears !

geoff

@ oldsmoke,
What software is used to convert the AX100 footage to XAVC-I? Catalyst prepare?

And you do that for a better preview performance mainly?

I have both, Prepare and Browse and see no difference in the converted files. I manly do it for playback speed and the fact that it holds up better over generations if you need render intermediates. I wish Handbrake would be able to handle it but it doesn't.

I am sure your clients enjoy working with someone who prefers to call people names rather than discuss ideas and helpful insight.

Better media management. more modern color correction tools. Better text tools (incorporated not ad-ons), automatically pre-rendering. a section of looks and ability to work with LUTS

My experience has been that professions get more work when they are not as mean spirited

Clients tend to want to work with people who are not mean spirited and do not feel the need to call people names. This is also true for most personal family relationships

Keith

Clients tend to want to work with people who are not mean spirited and do not feel the need to call people names. This is also true for most personal family relationships

Keith

Sorry, but I am a shooter as well and have been busy