I have to chuckle when I read lists like the one above trying to say Resolve is a mess. As a long time Vegas user (since ver. 3) I find myself using Resolve more and more these days with better performance overall and greater stability. I have a decent system but I built it about two years ago so it's not exactly cutting edge. I do however have lots of RAM and a video card with 8GB which is what Resolve needs. The more the better as it can actually take advantage of higher ram and even multiple cards unlike Vegas.
Is Resolve perfect? No and certain things Vegas still does better although this is becoming less and less especially when you start learning the logic of the Resolve workflow. A large part of what's winning me over is the updates and the pace at which they fixing issues and listening to their users. Every update includes multiple pages of improvements, bug fixes and even new features and these come out on a regular basis sometimes every two or three weeks. External video card? Heck yes! $160 and I have perfect playback on my 42" plasma. Ver. 15 update of Resolve was free so it already covered the cost of the card. Vegas does not even support the newer cards and the secondary preview function has been so screwed up in Windows 10 that I rarely use it anymore. I should note that I use the paid Studio version of Resolve which runs certain codecs like XAVC faster which is what I suspect some of the complainers are trying to run on the free version. Anyway, I try not to plug Resolve too much on this forum but comments like those above are just ignorant in my opinion. Hope you guys get an update soon fixing all the flaws in the latest version Vegas, I keep checking back but updates are few and far between and I have my doubts the old code will ever be truly fixed. Hope I'm wrong...
I'm sorry but I just can't let this go ....
Bob-H
Now who's demeaning who? You can disagree with my comments but denigrating Vegas users as self taught users who only know enough to do what they need to do ..... ????
What because they can't be trained or somehow can't handle proper training, Really? Is that what you are implying?
I'm not a braggart. But just to be clear I hold a Masters on the Violin with all that that entails, 25 years of study plus six years at university. And yes I'm self taught on Vegas. Spent countless hours watching video and reading manuals, books, etc. to learn how to use Vegas.
I am trained in what I was fortunate enough and dedicated enough to be trained in. And self taught for whatever else I needed to know or was interested in learning. So are a whole lot of other people here. Many, many people here!!
Being trained, or having training from university or even video courses does not make one special or superior in anything!! There is no difference. One method is in no way superior to the other! Just because you or anyone else is self taught does not make them any less in any way shape or form from someone who is trained. Neither are you superior for your claims of being a trained user. There are many ways to learn one's craft.
Grouping people into classes based on your perception of trained or self taught is simply and always wrong.
And just to be clear I didn't demean any one. I did point out why I believe posting a rant without putting out the slightest effort to help yourself or to allow someone else to help you is immature and disingenuous. I was hoping that my experience with the many versions of Vegas over several decades might, just might help someone else take a deep breath and think about it before starting such a post. And perhaps even then to ask for the help they require. And maybe stop pointing fingers at others, like developers, or the like. Blaming the software or the developers or someone else is just an excuse. Nothing more.
I have yet to see anyone here demeaned because they were having problems with their software. Almost always someone donates their valuable time to help.
I've said enough nor will I waste any more time on this ridiculous bullshit.
Will
after so many years a Vegas user ,i was also forced to move to Resolve due to performance issues and crashes i was getting from Vegas on high end pc's. Resolve is a much more professional editor and the grading tools are on another level, plus everything runs really smooth. I still use Vegas if i want to edit home videos or some low budget wedding but nothing else.
the Pro next to Vegas is for Problematic
Personally, I am not really interested in Resolve as a replacement for Vegas.
However, I am very interested in how to use it in partnership with Vegas. Primarily for the speed of colour grading and for access to some practical tools (eg optical flow retiming, denoising) that are not available in Vegas or would require expensive third party plug-ins.
Anyone have any useful advice about Vegas-Resolve integrated workflows? (XML, EDL, intermediates...)
Neat Video for Vegas is actually quite affordable, it does a better job than Resolve, and won't crash if you have less than 8GB VRAM.
As far as resolve's color tools, Vegas has the vast majority of it built in, the problem is the tools are spread across multiple plugins, so you have to build a plugin chain to do what the stock CC tool in Resolove does. I wouldn't be surprised if that changes in future versions.