Vegas 13 has been out for a while - Lucky 13?

MTuggy wrote on 11/5/2014, 2:10 PM
You what I miss in Vegas 13? The lack of excitement. No long strings of posts about the bugs and the failure to operate that were widespread with V12 and V11 when they first were release. The rants (some of which I participated in) and the raving about all the small ways we felt ripped off.

Vegas 13 (which just strikes me as high risk for bad luck for some reason) has been remarkable functional since day one. I know is Vegas 12 on steroids but hey, if you are doing heavy lifting, steroids can help.

Just miss all the chaos...

MT

Comments

videoITguy wrote on 11/5/2014, 2:58 PM
Chaos or bliss - really what do you want? Actually what I think you are referring to is the absence of chatter about this release..and there is good reason. The extras that it introduced like remote control and cloud collaboration have really been ho-hum. The user community thru the years of release of 10 to 12b have really moved on.
Make no mistake there were some serious bugs introduced by VPro13 that had not been there before and it certainly did not cure all the gotcha's of the preceding years.

Remarkably if you just stay on the straight and narrow workflow - this release will work as well as the renowned 8.0b. But note it will not run on the same platform that spun 8.0b so well. I for one had to spring several thousand on a new platform to support VegasPro13 from what had been the baseline at 8.0b. And incredibly the first iteration of VPro13 almost killed any plug-in support - a huge step backward. Recall how 8.0b release actually sprang off a whole third-party industry of script and plug-in support. That is not happening now, and probably never will again. So this release looks to mark a plateau - which suffice it to say is an admirable NLE on 64bits.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 11/5/2014, 4:25 PM
Sadly not for me as unable to use with combination of ASIO audio driver and VST effects without severe stuttering ;-(

geoff
malowz wrote on 11/5/2014, 7:57 PM
When new version comes out, people complain about the new bugs (some get fixed, some not) and some people complain about old bugs from previous versions that do not get fixed. and some complain about what Vegas should have that don't have.

Screaming "FIX THAT DAM THING SONY, IS THERE FOR AGES" clearly does not work. "Why we have to use third-party plugins to implement simple functions that Vegas should have" also goes unnoticed.

so, its a conformity period. we try to make Vegas better, sometimes we get to be listened, but most of the time we don't. so, in the end, you accept Vegas "as-is" or move to something else
Jeff9329 wrote on 11/17/2014, 7:33 PM
videoITguy:

Great post!

I still have a machine running 8.0c and it still works perfectly for DVD and BD projects. It has quite a few plugins that probably can never be replaced.

I don't follow the forum much anymore, so Im not sure what to make of it. Ever since 3D I just gave up on having the latest NLE that doesn't do anything better that I need.

Later,
Jeff
ushere wrote on 11/17/2014, 7:52 PM
13 is working very well for me - but i'm no power-user in as much as using it for compositing or heavy duty fx...

i am still cheesed off that gpu is still a dogs breakfast and that scs sees fit to develope / introduce completely 'useless*' gimmicks such as 3d and tablet support whilst ignoring the numerous fixes and implementations the vast majority of us have asked (very loudly) for.

i do not see myself investing in 14 UNLESS it does substantially address these outstanding problems.

with so much competition and freebies around scs really do need to get their act together otherwise vegas might well go the way of numerous other well received, but now extinct nle's.

*i don't mean 'useless' as a derogatory term, i'm sure there's a handful of users out there working 3d, using ipads, etc., but in the scheme of things they ARE a handful from what i can gather. most users have a need for reliability, stability and implementation of existing functionality ABOVE & BEFORE anything else.
Laurence wrote on 11/18/2014, 12:50 PM
I had an absolute nightmare of a time with both V11 and V12 releases. V13 on the other hand is back to being a joy to work with.