My Unlikely Vegas Appreciation Thread

ALO wrote on 3/3/2023, 8:18 PM

Just wanted to say I used VP this week for a VERY high profile rush job, and it worked brilliantly. I continue to marvel at the genius of the original Vegas interface, and how rapidly, effortlessly, and intuitively it allows you to organize, arrange, and shift clips and audio on the timeline. I could not have successfully processed such a massive project in any other NLE in such a short span of time.

Vegas is, truly, a work of art.

Some things that made a big difference:

For the first time, I let Vegas create proxies, and did all my editing and playback (except color, of course) in the Preview-->Full mode rather than Good or Best. I also worked only in 8-bit mode, including render.

That made a huge difference, allowing me to work with virtually none of the normal (and near-continuous) crashes I otherwise encounter in large projects.

There were still a number of Vegas glitches, to be sure, but they did not significantly impede my workflow.

So let me just say, as much as this program drives me crazy (and it is indeed a disaster in 10-bit mode w/HEVC right now), I do love it, and can't imagine using anything else. :)

 

Comments

fr0sty wrote on 3/3/2023, 9:18 PM

We're getting there! Baby steps...

If folks had any idea how much time is being put into this project by the small team responsible for it... those folks are working their asses off, sometimes even during time they are supposed to have off, and they're up against well-funded, large teams of developers making competing apps... and still managing to hold their own.

You can rest assured that the team has shifted focus from trying to get caught up to the others feature-wise to making sure VEGAS has a solid, as bug-free as possible foundation to build new updates upon. Stability and performance are now priority #1 at VEGAS HQ, which is why we might not see revolutionary new features for a second... rest assured that they are not resting assured... they're working hard right now addressing the issues you and others experience.

Glad VEGAS was able to pull through for you! Proxies do make a world of difference, especially with HEVC (which was a codec not designed to ever be edited with, so it is particularly tricky to decode). Hopefully before too long VEGAS' engine will be at the point where those proxies aren't needed as often, though.

Seb-o wrote on 3/4/2023, 4:36 PM

We're getting there! Baby steps...

If folks had any idea how much time is being put into this project by the small team responsible for it... those folks are working their asses off, sometimes even during time they are supposed to have off, and they're up against well-funded, large teams of developers making competing apps... and still managing to hold their own.

You can rest assured that the team has shifted focus from trying to get caught up to the others feature-wise to making sure VEGAS has a solid, as bug-free as possible foundation to build new updates upon. Stability and performance are now priority #1 at VEGAS HQ, which is why we might not see revolutionary new features for a second... rest assured that they are not resting assured... they're working hard right now addressing the issues you and others experience.

Glad VEGAS was able to pull through for you! Proxies do make a world of difference, especially with HEVC (which was a codec not designed to ever be edited with, so it is particularly tricky to decode). Hopefully before too long VEGAS' engine will be at the point where those proxies aren't needed as often, though.

Yes, wel Frosty, we agree on "features" vs. stablility. I say; Features Smeachers. This is too often Marketing Dept. driven baubles and bangles. People can get "features" easily enough - if not included in Vegas, via third party especially if absolutely necessary. Most recent Vegas "features" are - to quite a few - bells and whistles - with certainly some exceptions.

I think all of this "it's coming (i.e., stability) - let's all just be patient" jazz is wishful thinking and/or bull pucky. This is decades now. Magix needs to open the check book, hire some re-write crew, and stop this nonsense and lipstick on the pig/bandaid approach, IMHO.

To the original poster, YES, conceptually, hands down, best NLE. AND it works for some applications just fine, but quickly bogs down in others. I'm not saying solutions are easy, but they (Magix) just won't bite the bullet...Too bad. Software business, to me, is - too often anyway - a constant and purposeful dangling of the carrot.