As it is the last day to discount upgrade and I upgraded today I thought I would add a few quick opinions to the debate.
I have always avoided a Vegas initial release. I have been working with Vegas 9 for the last 3 years and it has served me well. I have avoided 10 and 11 due to bad press in this forum
Over the weekend I had the good fortune to direct a short film with a RED Scarlet and the editing duties were handed to someone else.
I realized yesterday that I had a horrible continuity problem and needed to do an edit for myself to figure out what shots needed to be redone asap.
With Vegas 9 not being able to edit Scarlet files, it put me in the position that I had to upgrade and work with the Vegas 12 initial release version with 4K files - something I would not normally have dreamed of attempting. I normally edit DSLR and HDV video
I have no hardware acceleration and have worked all day with 3 tracks of 4K footage with 4 tracks of audio. I have pieced together several scenes. Playback is sluggish with the three tracks of video, but doable.
I did some animated masking effects and this worked as expected.
I don't understand the purpose of the new color values, but I guess I can get used to it.
One crash due to the new explorer window trying to navigate down through folders. I have seen other comments on this and am hoping this is being addressed.
Red audio waveforms did not display correctly sometimes but played back fine.
Apart from this I had no problems. I rendered out several Mpeg4 files at different resolutions and bit rates.
After years of fearing to upgrade from Vegas 9 I would say so far so good. It is early days yet but there are lots of little minor improvements that have made this is a worthwhile upgrade coming from Vegas 9.
With1 crash in 10 hours of editing 4K files, maybe not having any hardware acceleration I have avoided the problems others have had.
I have always avoided a Vegas initial release. I have been working with Vegas 9 for the last 3 years and it has served me well. I have avoided 10 and 11 due to bad press in this forum
Over the weekend I had the good fortune to direct a short film with a RED Scarlet and the editing duties were handed to someone else.
I realized yesterday that I had a horrible continuity problem and needed to do an edit for myself to figure out what shots needed to be redone asap.
With Vegas 9 not being able to edit Scarlet files, it put me in the position that I had to upgrade and work with the Vegas 12 initial release version with 4K files - something I would not normally have dreamed of attempting. I normally edit DSLR and HDV video
I have no hardware acceleration and have worked all day with 3 tracks of 4K footage with 4 tracks of audio. I have pieced together several scenes. Playback is sluggish with the three tracks of video, but doable.
I did some animated masking effects and this worked as expected.
I don't understand the purpose of the new color values, but I guess I can get used to it.
One crash due to the new explorer window trying to navigate down through folders. I have seen other comments on this and am hoping this is being addressed.
Red audio waveforms did not display correctly sometimes but played back fine.
Apart from this I had no problems. I rendered out several Mpeg4 files at different resolutions and bit rates.
After years of fearing to upgrade from Vegas 9 I would say so far so good. It is early days yet but there are lots of little minor improvements that have made this is a worthwhile upgrade coming from Vegas 9.
With1 crash in 10 hours of editing 4K files, maybe not having any hardware acceleration I have avoided the problems others have had.