How stable is Vegas?

StormMarc wrote on 1/5/2002, 4:06 PM
Hello,

I've been hearing many good things about Vegas and have been trying to learn it with the Demo. I am a Sound Forge user and have always been pleased with the stability of Sonic Foundry products and was wondering how stable Vegas really is? Adobe still has issues and is finicky and I'm having trouble believing Vegas is as stable as it sounds.

Thanks,

Marc

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dvstudio wrote on 1/5/2002, 4:32 PM
I think you'll find VV3 to be more stable than Premiere 6. I've no problems at all, running Win2000Pro on AthlonXP system.

I think you'll also find you can do more creative things faster than you can in Prem. Multi-layer, multi-effect projects will be much easier and more stable in VV3.

Lance
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MacMoney wrote on 1/5/2002, 6:58 PM
I have no problems with VV3 on Win2k with a P4 1.7 system, I only use it for audio.

George Ware
Avenger wrote on 1/5/2002, 9:28 PM
i run it on Win98 Se with a PIII 667eb, and i use it for audio and video..I havent had any problems at all..And i own a Computer Store..lol you would think i would have a Super System..
bcbarnes wrote on 1/5/2002, 10:35 PM
I have only run into one bug, and it's known and apparently being fixed in the update. Otherwise, it has been VERY stable on WinXP Home.

The bug:

In the "media pool", if you have an mpeg-2 clip, and the media pool is set to display "thumbnails", it will sometimes crash. Setting the media pool to "details" or other settings keeps this from happening.
RichR wrote on 1/5/2002, 11:16 PM
Very stable on my PIII dual 450 win 2000 machine
StormMarc wrote on 1/6/2002, 12:26 AM
Sounds great. I've been playing around with the demo and I must say this software is amazing! Sonic Foundry appears to have done in a short time what Adobe is still yet to do. I'll be buying soon.

Thanks,

Marc
frog wrote on 1/6/2002, 10:32 AM
i've using vegas audio for over two years, and have upgraded to 2.0h recently. with 98se operating system, and a fairly simple pc...with the luxury of 2 flat screen monitors, the system is virtually flawless; the only problem that appears to be more related to having 128 mb ram and a pentium III class processor, is the buffering issue that seems to come and go, i.e.e audio not in sync with audio graphics...
usually, closing the program and reopening seems to flush the memory and let things run smoothly. the other thing i've noticed is to reduce the number of fx on a track if there not being used...and not just disable them, but delete them from the track...again, because of the limitations of the processor [i believe], there is a noticable glitching [stuttering] during playback.
other than these two issues [which i seem to be able to work around] the system is fabulous, and offers pretty much every option i've desired in producing everything from imaging projects to complete soundtracks for fireworks shows. i'm a big fan of sonic foundry, and am continually amazed at what is a truly elegant program.
redmt wrote on 1/6/2002, 12:12 PM
Very stable cosidering whats going on "under the hood"
and the varibles involved with the MB/Chipset/OS/ issues it has to deal with.
Andy
stakeoutstudios wrote on 1/6/2002, 2:34 PM
using Vegas Audio 2.0h for audio only, in a commercial recording studio 'stakeout studios' , Surrey, England:

generally VERY stable - the most stable pro audio program I have used on a PC so far.

however.. it still get's a bit tetchy when adding or removing plugins from really complex multitrack mixes.. especially multiple buss projects. Sometimes crashes.

Only very occasionally a seemingly random crash happens.

Also, sometimes when you zoom all the way out.. you can't zoom back in... closing and re-opening Vegas solves that one. Pretty rare though.

I'm waiting for Vegas Audio 3.0 (patched up Vegas Video 3) to come out before I pass complete judgment on that one though! I've had some great experience mixing on the new version... and some nasty experiences tracking.

Watch what Sound card / Drivers combination you use as well. Sometimes newer is not better...!

My system:

AMD Athlon XP 1700+
VIA KT266A based motherboard
M-audio Delta 1010 soundcard
Gadget labs Wave 8*24 soundcard
2x IBM deskstar 60 GXP hard drives
512MB DDR SDRAM
NVidia Geforce DDR 32MB graphics

that's about it... custom built by me :o)