I've used Vegas since version 5. I recently upgraded from 8 to 10c, and this past week used 10c in depth for the first time on fairly simple SD project. There were several MAJOR issues:
- Vegas crashed, twice! In the past few years, I've seen Vegas crash maybe 5 times. It's always been one of the most stable programs on my computer. Not anymore. :<
- I rendered several sections of the timeline to mp4. The audio on these was a speaker's voice on one track with background music on another track. On two of these renders, when I played the file, the background music was not there. Even worse, part way through the file, the speaker's voice was suddenly accompanied by a sped-up version of his voice. So, we heard the speaker in his normal voice, along with a time-delayed chipmunk. This happened on 2 out of 6 renders, all done the same way. When I re-rendered these 2 sections, it turned out fine.
- At one point I dropped a background onto a track, cropped it, and used track motion to drag it down to make a lower-third. Then I added a little transparency. Suddenly it looked like a jigsaw puzzle - on the preview screen everything was cut apart and scrambled. I tried it again on another section, and the same thing happened. I had to close Vegas and restart it, and after that it worked correctly.
- At one point I displayed some pictures, full screen. All of these pictures were the same resolution, and I treated them the same way - crop/match output aspect ratio/and a slow pan. Everything looked good during playback from the timeline. However, when I rendered, 2 of the 4 pictures had small gaps at the top and bottom, so you could see the background track behind them. This was repeatable, and I couldn't find any way to fix it.
What has happened to Vegas? I've never had these kinds of problems with it before. A long, long time ago, I switched from Premiere 6 to Vegas because of Premiere's instability, and I've always appreciated how well Vegas performs, but this new version is giant step backwards.
The rendering problems really bother me, because it leaves me with no faith that Vegas is really rendering what I think it is. The crashing and the scrambled pictures are irritating time wasters, but at least I know they're happening.
Along with the upgrade to Vegas 10, I also switched to the 64 bit version, always having run 32 bits before. Any chance that the 32 bit version would be more stable? I'm going to try it, but if I have the same issues, I'm going to have to go back to version 8. I hope Sony pulls things together.
- Vegas crashed, twice! In the past few years, I've seen Vegas crash maybe 5 times. It's always been one of the most stable programs on my computer. Not anymore. :<
- I rendered several sections of the timeline to mp4. The audio on these was a speaker's voice on one track with background music on another track. On two of these renders, when I played the file, the background music was not there. Even worse, part way through the file, the speaker's voice was suddenly accompanied by a sped-up version of his voice. So, we heard the speaker in his normal voice, along with a time-delayed chipmunk. This happened on 2 out of 6 renders, all done the same way. When I re-rendered these 2 sections, it turned out fine.
- At one point I dropped a background onto a track, cropped it, and used track motion to drag it down to make a lower-third. Then I added a little transparency. Suddenly it looked like a jigsaw puzzle - on the preview screen everything was cut apart and scrambled. I tried it again on another section, and the same thing happened. I had to close Vegas and restart it, and after that it worked correctly.
- At one point I displayed some pictures, full screen. All of these pictures were the same resolution, and I treated them the same way - crop/match output aspect ratio/and a slow pan. Everything looked good during playback from the timeline. However, when I rendered, 2 of the 4 pictures had small gaps at the top and bottom, so you could see the background track behind them. This was repeatable, and I couldn't find any way to fix it.
What has happened to Vegas? I've never had these kinds of problems with it before. A long, long time ago, I switched from Premiere 6 to Vegas because of Premiere's instability, and I've always appreciated how well Vegas performs, but this new version is giant step backwards.
The rendering problems really bother me, because it leaves me with no faith that Vegas is really rendering what I think it is. The crashing and the scrambled pictures are irritating time wasters, but at least I know they're happening.
Along with the upgrade to Vegas 10, I also switched to the 64 bit version, always having run 32 bits before. Any chance that the 32 bit version would be more stable? I'm going to try it, but if I have the same issues, I'm going to have to go back to version 8. I hope Sony pulls things together.