My thoughts on V4 after running through the beta for a few weeks.
Well I took a deep breath and in early January decided to use the beta for a project. I was nervous about starting in it and worried that after a couple weeks I might find a bug that would make it impossible to finish. But I couldn't think of a better way to get into this new version, and this was a personal 'art' project so I went ahead and put my time into it.
I never found that bug, and I believe the new features saved me a ton of time. My project was simple, it was manipulating still images in a sort of 'south park' style cartoon. It required a lot of resizing and moving things around. And thats where V4 made a big difference over 3, in quickly moving things around. Little things like the ease of ripple editing and swapping positions, and the fx settings have scroll bars when the window is too small to show everything at once (although they could use max and minimize buttons).
When it came to rendering having only the changes re-rendered made a world of difference. What would've been a 6 hour final render took only 20 minutes. Very good and made making last minute changes, well... possible.
I encountered two crashes. One was while testing out the Satish pluggin 3D LE (and this was after about 16 hours of use).
The second crash I discovered came when I tried capturing from a cheap digital still camera with a USB connection. I found Vegas 3 will capture video from it without problem but it froze when I tried it with the V4 capture utility. Not something I have a great need for, but it might be a bug if the older one could handle it.
After a few weeks of daily use, I never had any problems otherwise. And I was running WinAmp and image editors in the background for most of that time.
At first I wasn't sure what V4 offered me, but after delving in the upgrade will be an obvious choice.
Well I took a deep breath and in early January decided to use the beta for a project. I was nervous about starting in it and worried that after a couple weeks I might find a bug that would make it impossible to finish. But I couldn't think of a better way to get into this new version, and this was a personal 'art' project so I went ahead and put my time into it.
I never found that bug, and I believe the new features saved me a ton of time. My project was simple, it was manipulating still images in a sort of 'south park' style cartoon. It required a lot of resizing and moving things around. And thats where V4 made a big difference over 3, in quickly moving things around. Little things like the ease of ripple editing and swapping positions, and the fx settings have scroll bars when the window is too small to show everything at once (although they could use max and minimize buttons).
When it came to rendering having only the changes re-rendered made a world of difference. What would've been a 6 hour final render took only 20 minutes. Very good and made making last minute changes, well... possible.
I encountered two crashes. One was while testing out the Satish pluggin 3D LE (and this was after about 16 hours of use).
The second crash I discovered came when I tried capturing from a cheap digital still camera with a USB connection. I found Vegas 3 will capture video from it without problem but it froze when I tried it with the V4 capture utility. Not something I have a great need for, but it might be a bug if the older one could handle it.
After a few weeks of daily use, I never had any problems otherwise. And I was running WinAmp and image editors in the background for most of that time.
At first I wasn't sure what V4 offered me, but after delving in the upgrade will be an obvious choice.