Vegas - Difference to Acid, & Protools?

buckaroo wrote on 6/9/2006, 2:24 AM
Hi

I have used Acid Pro & Soundforge for about 7 years, and am now on the Mac with logic Pro (for Sequencing & scoring ) and also have Protools LE.

Can you tell me what the difference is between Vegas & Acid regarding Scoring to video? I know Acid does loops well, but wanted to know the main differences between Vegas (which im thinking of trying) and Soundforge/Acid.

Also what are the benfits or comparisons to Protools LE. I know PT is used loads in film, but Acid & Sforge are just so damn easy!! So im thinking Vegas surely would be great for me...??

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 6/9/2006, 3:24 AM
Vegas is "video aware", but not "music aware". Vegas has no way of knowing keys, tempo, beats, etc. It's much more free-form in than ACID in that respect. It may be difficult to use Vegas to score something from loops. Vegas also doesn't do MIDI. If all you're doing is taking existing music beds and fitting them to scenes then Vegas will probably do fine. If you want to work with loops, pitch changes, tempos, etc. then ACID is the right tool.

If you are recording your own sound track live then either tool is fine.

I wouldn't try to use Sound Forge to work with video. Any edits you make will lose sync between the audio track and the video track. It's also only a single stereo track so that makes audio compositing very difficult.

Sorry, only used ProTools once. Hated it. Don't understand why anyone tries to use it.
buckaroo wrote on 6/9/2006, 4:55 AM
So is there any real difference in Vegas to using Acid but with One-shot or Disk based audio?

does Vegas have some extra video features to working with audio and video?
drbam wrote on 6/9/2006, 5:35 AM
"does Vegas have some extra video features to working with audio and video?"

I would suggest that you take your questions over to the Vegas Video forum. You'll get more much more input there. I will say this however, Vegas in its current state is first and formost a video application. It has some amazing audio capabilities but also lacks several features that would be considered standard in an audio app in today's market. Sony clearly is giving Acid the focus in audio development and several of Vegas's features have been moved into Acid. Hopefully this will continue because for me, I'm used to the speed and fluidity of working in Vegas (I'm an audio only user) and when I work with Acid 5 or 6, it feels cumbersome by comparison. Hopefully this will improve at some point. So to answer your question, for me the huge difference in Vegas and Acid is Vegas's superior editing features.

drbam
deusx wrote on 7/7/2006, 7:59 AM
If you rely on loops to create your soundtrack, then you need acid to do that before you import a finished soundtrack into vegas.

Otherwise vegas is pretty much all you need. It works great as a multircker.

Usually video is edited to match music, not the other way around, and it doesn't get any better than vegas.
JeffreyPFisher wrote on 8/14/2006, 9:47 AM
I feel all three are useful. Acid for music comp, Vegas for audio post and final mix, and Sound Forge for mastering (and noise reduction). They all work together quite nicely (especially with the Edit Source Project tools in Vegas).

JPF
Angels wrote on 8/22/2006, 2:11 PM
Sony clearly is giving Acid the focus in audio development and several of Vegas's features have been moved into Acid. Hopefully this will continue because for me, I'm used to the speed and fluidity of working in Vegas (I'm an audio only user) and when I work with Acid 5 or 6, it feels cumbersome by comparison..

My feelings exactly. When working in Acid I really miss things like the quick drag of events to a new track (auto track creation), straight vertical moving of events, the right click options available in Vegas (Mute, lock, loop, Invert Phase, Normalise, Takes, Groups, Channels). My wish is for even better NLE integration for audio in Acid.

My wish for Vegas, is the folder tracks now available in Acid.