Considering switching to Premiere Pro

jeff92k7 wrote on 2/21/2015, 11:37 AM

Basically...Convince me to stay with Vegas.

I currently have Vegas Pro 11. Previously used Vegas Pro 10, 9, and before that, Studio platinum 8. However, lately I find myself more and more frustrated with Vegas. My big complaint is the constant crashes. I have gotten in the habit of hitting CTRL + S after ever single edit. EVERY SINGLE EDIT! because I never know when Vegas is going to crash. I upgraded from 9 to 10 because of it crashing. I upgraded from 10 to 11 because of it crashing. I'm not willing to keep paying money for crappy software. For example, I cannot render a video after making ANY edits without Vegas crashing. I HAVE to close Vegas, then reopen it, reopen the project, and then immediately render or Vegas will crash. If I make preference changes, I have to close Vegas and then reopen it before working on a project with the new preferences or else Vegas will crash.

I like editing video in Vegas Pro because its easy to do and I can get good results pretty quickly (except for the constant crashing), but I'm to the point where I'm looking to upgrade my software and I'm not convinced I want to stay with Vegas.

So here are my questions:
1. Is Vegas Pro Edit 13 any more stable than previous versions of Vegas Pro?
2. Should I just give up on Vegas and switch to Adobe Premiere Pro?

In case it matters, I don't do much audio editing in Vegas at all. I do all my heavy audio work in Cubase, and then render a wave file to dump into Vegas and mix with on camera audio (if needed). Basically, all I want is a good, reliable video editor.

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jeff92k7 wrote on 2/24/2015, 9:18 AM

Thought I would post back. I've been working on a project the last few days and haven't had any crashes in Vegas Pro 11 at all. It's been weird. So I got to thinking about what is different and I realized that I hadn't loaded any 3rd party audio plugins in this project. Plugins is one area that I have noticed a lot of crashes. So I'm wondering now if a big part of my crashing is the way Vegas handles plugins.

I can always, always force a crash by trying to add certain 64 bit audio plugins. Because of that, I have resorted to using all 32 bit vst plugins. However, I have other 64 bit plugins that work fine, even though I don't load them because I don't want to confuse Vegas further by mixing plugin types.

So does Vegas prefer 32 bit plugins in general? Is there something wrong with mixing 32 and 64 bit plugins in Vegas?

John222 wrote on 2/24/2015, 7:05 PM

I've been running Vegas pro 11 64 bit with Win 8.1 without any problems. But other than Vegasaur and deshaker, I don't have anything else installed within Vegas. All my other stuff is independant packages like Mocha Pro, Fusion and Hitfilm 2 Ultimate.

VidMus wrote on 2/24/2015, 7:49 PM

I recently upgraded to windows 8.1 from Window 7 Ultimate. I was occasionally having strange crashes with Vegas and Windows.

The problem turned out to be the latest version of GPU-Z. I set it not to run on start-up and not at all and now the system and Vegas is 100% stable.

Problem with Vegas was a not responding message after x amount of time and edits, etc.. Windows 8.1 would boot up with no icons and not even the metro. I had to click on the lower left to get it to jump in.

Somebody at TechPowerUp blew it big time!

There are a lot of things that can trip-up a system. This one was a bit on the obvious side and was easy to fix. There are more details that helped me figure it out, but I am too tired to type them all right now.