DR Guy Tries Vegas 21

Reyfox wrote on 9/25/2023, 6:32 AM

I found the review interesting, and he did touch on a few points that I agree with. I know a lot of people mention the dated UI, but I don't mind it. Also having all the audio in something like how the Color Grading Panel is. But for me, Vegas works. It was easy to learn "how" to use it for me.

I do own Resolve Studio, which is the paid version. Update it whenever there is an update. See what is new, etc.. I have had it for a few years. I've yet to edit any video in it. I've explored it, watched a lot of tutorials, experimented in editing, I have the Speed Editor sitting here, heard all the talk about how great the free version is and people celebrating the Studio price structuring. But for me, Vegas has worked, and I am comfortable editing with it. It does all that I want. All for the cost of few cups of "boutique" coffee a month.

I also think that this is a renaissance period for Vegas Pro. Yeah.... seeing how they are moving forward... this should be fun!

Comments

frmax wrote on 9/25/2023, 5:21 PM

Imho a fair comment, especially he praises the color grading of Vegas, where you would expect him to emphasize the "superiority" of DR in this area.
On the subject of audio, one can agree with him, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 9/25/2023, 6:54 PM

Not too much of a bad review.... Initially i was expecting a lot of negativity towards Vegas, along with a lot of comparisons to Davinci.

fr0sty wrote on 9/25/2023, 11:56 PM

Imho a fair comment, especially he praises the color grading of Vegas, where you would expect him to emphasize the "superiority" of DR in this area.
On the subject of audio, one can agree with him, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Room for improvement, yes, but there's a lot of areas where VEGAS is miles ahead of Resolve as far as audio goes, since it did start off its life as a DAW.

relaxvideo wrote on 9/26/2023, 12:35 AM

But first: app stability! before anything!
We see, almost every 2nd 3rd post is about crashes, hangups.
Can't be all user error.

Reyfox wrote on 9/26/2023, 8:37 AM

@relaxvideo I agree with you on stability and would like to add performance and graphic driver compatibility.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 9/26/2023, 10:37 AM

@fr0sty Agreed, Vegas's audio capabilities is ahead of Resolve's own in many ways.

Also, many does not realize as yet how versatile and impressive the Vegas Color Grading feature actually is...To point out a discovery, for many years i always use RevisionFX Match Color plugin to handle all my color matching needs when doing heavy compositing, and was fairly satisfied with most of its results thru many tweaking.... But when Vegas stepped up their game to improve its Color Correction + Grading capabilities, i one day casually gave the Color Match feature a try, and was completely blown away with the results, very accurate and a better match than what RevisionFX outputs.

RogerS wrote on 9/26/2023, 12:47 PM

Fairlight is a DAW as well and with the limitations of VEGAS and VSTs I have roundtripped audio through Resolve to access its features. Its native loudness tools are also faster than generating text logs in VEGAS.