Concerned about buying Vegas 23

Reno wrote on 11/17/2025, 7:10 PM

I have Vegas 13 which will not open the newer video types and need to upgrade or change programs. I do relatively simple videos of our travels for personal pleasure. As I do not want to tithe to a company, I want to buy rather than have a subscription. I'm very concerned as to whether Vegas 23 will work with my computers. I have a ton of questions that I would normally ask a salesperson, but they do not exist for this software.
I'd ask a salesperson the following:
How really, really bad is the support going to be because I cannot even ask the questions I need answered to decide to buy?
1) May I put it on my two computers?
2) Since I have Vegas 13 - is this an upgrade, or do I need to buy completely new - the price is quite different.
3) My desktop has the minimum system requirements, however, I love to mess with videos on my laptop - especially when traveling, but I don't know if the graphics will keep up...
Desktop system is: Windows 11, Intel core i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz,64-bit operating system, x64-based processor, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Driver version 32.0.14.7683
Laptop system is: 12th gen core i7 1.70 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor, Intel Iris Xe driver version 31.0.101.4502
4) How buggy is it? I just spent a ton of time with DaVinci and having to constantly reboot. I then spent a ton of time with CapCut (which I really liked), but the project files are kept online and they are sneaky about how they try to get you to buy a subscription as there is basically NOTHING you can do with audio without the full software. It is a $90 tithe a year.
6) When, (not if), I'm trying to get this to work on my computer, how difficult is it going to be to figure out what is causing the problem? I have a TON of using software experience, but I do this stuff for fun and am not great at the hardware issues.

So does anyone know how to get these questions answered? Are we supposed to, as users, get all of our information from other users? I'm kind of on an island here as I don't know other people who do the kinds of things I do with computers... and I am frankly VERY tired of having to work so hard just to get software working rather than getting to work in the software.

Any suggestions?

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Reyfox wrote on 11/21/2025, 12:24 PM

I'm a patient person. I love the way I can edit in Vegas. Everything right in front of me. I also have Resolve Studio w/Speed Editor that was gifted to me by my wife a few years ago. I was caught up in the hype. So who would not want to have Resolve? But then I actually started to use it and missed the simplicity of using Vegas to do the same thing. Then I ran into nodes. My brain just can't handle it yet.

Each release of a new version of Vegas was problematic for me with various "pull my hair out" issues. But eventually, my issues were solved and I found Vegas rock stable for me to edit for hours without issues.

I do have VP23, but for me, it isn't ready. Crashing when I click the Render button unless I go for a walk around the block and let VP23 finish doing what it has to. Maybe it is the new UI for the Render templates. I do the same thing in VP22, and it just works, and faster. Again, I love the way I can edit in Vegas, and want it to succeed.

@Vincent-Brice thanks for your kind words. We are all in the same "boat". We all should work together to achieve what we desire in editing, helping each other. You have to use what works for you. Happy editing!

3POINT wrote on 11/21/2025, 12:51 PM

@3POINT There is a sample in this thread:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/gopro-hero-5-black-video-probem--149801/?page=2#ca943138

Thanks @john_dennis but the sample in that thread is just a Gopro 2.7k clip. @Dexcon has an issue with a Gopro 5.3k clip, that's a huge difference: 2.7k = 2704x1520 and 5.3k= 5312x2988.

I prefer to get a sample from @Dexcon.

john_dennis wrote on 11/21/2025, 12:53 PM

Noted.

3POINT wrote on 11/21/2025, 1:05 PM

I also have Resolve Studio w/Speed Editor that was gifted to me by my wife a few years ago. I was caught up in the hype. So who would not want to have Resolve? But then I actually started to use it and missed the simplicity of using Vegas to do the same thing. Then I ran into nodes. My brain just can't handle it yet.

You're a lucky one, I never get such useful presents from my wife...

About nodes, at first sight it looks very complicated, but playing around with them it is just another way to make complicated compositions in one timeline event instead of using multiple tracks as in Vegas, which can also look very complicated.

Reyfox wrote on 11/21/2025, 1:09 PM

Yes, my wife knows I spend a lot of time in front of the computer editing. She heard me talking about how BMD was offering the Speed Editor with Resolve Studio for the cost of Studio alone.

I was excited to get it but honestly, while it does work, I find for me, editing in Vegas much easier. If there was layer based compositing, I might use it more. The same with grading, back to the nodes for something I just don't feel I need. I can easily follow layers. Timeline editing is for me, easier and faster. It is a matter of personal preferences. I am not saying which editor is best, but which one I prefer to edit with.

Dexcon wrote on 11/21/2025, 4:26 PM

@3POINT ... I've just PM'd you link and password to a 17 seconds GoPro 11 5312x2988 25fps HEVC 4:2:0 10 bits sample on my OneDrive.

3POINT wrote on 11/22/2025, 12:53 AM

@Dexcon Thanks for the sample. I put it on a DR20 5312x2988p25 Timeline and it plays butter smooth even with applied stabilization (DR needed about 5 sec to stabilize the clip). Also applying a cut/crossfade and a color correction didn't hamper the preview. So unfortunately, I couldn't confirm your findings. Strange because we both use almost identical hardware.

In VP23 it also plays smooth (only for applying stabilization, Vegas stabilization needed 75 sec) Applying a cut/crossfade and a color correction hampers extremely the preview but only at the crossfade.

Ofcourse tested both without proxies.

Dexcon wrote on 11/22/2025, 1:55 AM

@3POINT ... Thanks so much for checking. After putting on my Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat, I think I've discovered the problem. I'm not sure how it happened but in DR's Project Settings the timeline resolution was set to 8K. On changing that setting to 4K UHD, playback performance is excellent (constant 25 fps) - even with the Timeline Playback Resolution set to Full.

3POINT wrote on 11/22/2025, 3:25 AM

@Dexcon glad I could put you in the right direction. I also just discovered that, because I have only the free version of DR, the max project/timeline resolution is limited to 4k. I manually set it to 5k to test your file, but it was reset to 4k. (which is more than sufficient for my purpose). So to make a real comparison I should set VP23 also to 4k.