Fave Vegas feature?

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/7/2006, 8:26 AM

If you could identify just ONE feature in Vegas that has saved you a ton of time, eased your workflow, or altered the way you look at the editing world...what one feature would it be?

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RalphM wrote on 3/7/2006, 11:36 AM

Stability (another Pinnacle refugee).

If stability doesn't count as a feature - the ability to improve still images right on the timeline rather than going back to a still image editor.

LyricsGirl wrote on 3/7/2006, 11:51 AM

GUI- Usability of the interface. I ditched Premiere Pro as I got fed up guessing where they hide their functions.

Vegas has an extremely logical interface.

LG

Tattoo wrote on 3/7/2006, 11:53 AM

I can't resist this post - Stability! Any guesses on my previous NLE?

MarkWWW wrote on 3/7/2006, 11:54 AM

Scripting.

Mark

dand9959 wrote on 3/7/2006, 11:55 AM

1: Stability (another Pinnacle victim here)

2: Vegas' ability to handle almost any type of media

3: Realtime preview without special hardware

zcus wrote on 3/7/2006, 12:26 PM

3D track motion and Parent/Child track relations

Logan5 wrote on 3/7/2006, 12:31 PM

Being able to edit at my at office, home, laptop & at my contractor’s editors system locations.

It easy to find a PC that will do the job –
in the past I needed a Mac & some chunks of hardware.

epirb wrote on 3/7/2006, 1:16 PM

Handling of HDV and or 24p conversion.
No scratch that..... This forum and the suuport network from the everyday amatuers to the seasoned pros that make this one of the best editing platforms around.

Quryous wrote on 3/7/2006, 1:20 PM

Background rendering and pre-rendering, hands down. (opps, not yet. Maybe in V7?).

tthulson wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:19 PM

Definitely the interface! Being able to do so much on the timeline itself -- even stuff as simple as auto-crossfades.

PierreB wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:46 PM

LyricsGirl, behind you all the way! Respect for the Windows interface is the reason I originally opted for Vegas. Stability's kept me here.

Pierre B

Harold Brown wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:47 PM

Nestd projects. Great to break up my work in major categories.

jrazz wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:49 PM

Stability/Scripting

j razz

Nat wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:59 PM

Realtime audio/video

Dan Sherman wrote on 3/7/2006, 4:01 PM

Nested projects.

jaydeeee wrote on 3/7/2006, 4:04 PM

The UI (please don't f with it :) and stability.

Serena wrote on 3/7/2006, 4:18 PM

Tricky question! Probably it would be easier to nominate a feature I could manage without. Although the list is getting shorter as my competence with Vegas increases.
Also difficult because my experience with other NLEs is limited to helping people with problems where, of course, I'm constantly mumbling "how do you work with this?"
My top requirement of any software is stablility and freedom from bugs, with soft landing for user errors and ease of learning. Vegas satisfies these essentials. Capability for real-time display of all post-production effects - yes. Extensive flexibility of workflow. Accommodates a large range of 3rd party tools. Yes, colour curves and colour correction would be a huge loss; essential for squeezing the real world into 8 bits.
I guess if you took away HDV facilities I'd have to look elsewhere, but Gearshift makes even that unnecessary.

vicmilt wrote on 3/7/2006, 4:46 PM

THIS FORUM - no doubt about it.

v

DrLumen wrote on 3/7/2006, 5:48 PM

What sold me on it was the ability for keyframe effects, large amount of import filters and the compositing tools. I too am a pinnacle refugee so it is the stability that keeps me here. ;-)

I agree with Vic, this is a great forum!

PeterWright wrote on 3/7/2006, 5:56 PM

Uninterrupted looped preview allowing us to immediately see the results of any setting we change.

TomG wrote on 3/7/2006, 6:09 PM

Stability... by far and away....

TomG

fldave wrote on 3/7/2006, 6:22 PM

I think...

Nested Projects

have opened up a whole new level of options to be creative, without the redundancy.

Second in line would be Hi Def, export/import sequential images, color correction, Wax extensions, scripting, this forum...not necessarily in that order.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop there.

Dave

DGates wrote on 3/7/2006, 6:59 PM

Just the overall simplicity. Overlap 2 video files, boom, an instant dissolve. Stuff like that.

dibbkd wrote on 3/7/2006, 7:11 PM

As many others, STABILITY.

If I hadn't come from Pinnacle, maybe I'd say multiple tracks that are easy to use.

But yeah, the instability of Pinnacle is why I'm here, so I think I'd have to say stability is the feature that brought me here and that I love the most.