Just got another $60 mail now, Magix won't let go😅

*Just for the record I'm not in the EU but I use EU mailbox on my account

I got another email as well so I got out the credit card. Good deal even if the next version is close.

Thanks @vkmast that worked for me!

The fact they say there is a new version coming is great. I complained to them when they came out with the new version of Sound Forge and did not let anyone, well at least me, know. I got an offer to upgrade to the Pro version so I did and a week later I had an email saying the new SF version was out. I contacted them saying I had not even registered the version I purchased and was never told a new version was coming out a week later and was told they do not do "free" version upgrades because I purchased the pro version at a "special" price so they offered me and upgrade for the new SF version. It was for more than I was offered in the promotional feed messages at the time. I complained about the lack of transparency in the newer version coming out a week later Maybe that complaint was heard thus the reason for stating a newer version Vegas is coming out.

I doubt if one complaint would change Magix. They've always done business this way. If the price is way low, and it's about that time of the year for an upgrade to come out, then you wait. Sales always comes along. Especially when a new release is about to happen and on Black Friday in Novemenber.

Vegas seems to always release in August. Also, VEGAS is run separately from the other Magix software.

I doubt if one complaint would change Magix. They've always done business this way. If the price is way low, and it's about that time of the year for an upgrade to come out, then you wait. Sales always comes along. Especially when a new release is about to happen and on Black Friday in Novemenber.

Vegas seems to always release in August. Also, VEGAS is run separately from the other Magix software.

I'm on the other hand had different experience with Magix. Way back I got full refund on my VM16P, after a month, only to buy a better practical bundle for me.

I got it, but I'm honestly not going to keep it installed. I am too lazy to ask for a refund, but maybe I'll do that as well. The preview performance is still pretty mediocre. It's not really any better than v18, and I'm growing less and less willing to eat these losses when the software isn't delivering any improvements that matter to me.

I got it, but I'm honestly not going to keep it installed. I am too lazy to ask for a refund, but maybe I'll do that as well. The preview performance is still pretty mediocre. It's not really any better than v18, and I'm growing less and less willing to eat these losses when the software isn't delivering any improvements that matter to me.

@Former user If you look at products like Capcut and Davinci Resolve there is no option to turn off the GPU, it's because they were build from the ground up and a GPU is an integral part of the design, they'll break without one. Vegas's approach to GPU processing is different, they still use a design based around not having a GPU, but added a 'plugin' of sorts for GPU processing/decoding/encoding.

It's why you have people like @john_dennis and @Steve_Rhoden using modern computers with their GPU's turned off. They are some of the most experienced Vegas users, been here since the single digit versions and they know Vegas in it's current form was never meant to be hooked up to a GPU the way it is. Would they turn on their GPU's with a complete overhaul of the render engine with a design that includes the GPU? Ofcourse they would!

Vegas have improved stability for many with VP20, and also with the amount of work they've put into this, it surely means there is no new render engine coming, otherwise this would be a huge amount of wasted resources that could have gone to something else.

I'd recommend anyone do a trial before paying and make sure the program does what you need it to do.

For render engine I don't see these options are exclusive- you could have a redesigned video engine that's still modular in that it takes inputs from plugins and then outputs using plugins. So the work patching the aging engine in VEGAS may not carry forward, but the work with decoding and format support would. It's not unusual to have a short-term bandaid and a long-term overhaul strategy operating simultaneously. I do in my house, in my work, etc.

I've not found the perfect editing software yet where it does everything perfectly. I have my GPU on all the time, and mostly edit 4K. When adding effects/transitions etc. to a clips, and I want to see what it will actually look like, I have HOS (Happy Otter Scripts) and Vegasaur to render it out and put it on the timeline.

And while other editors might leverage the GPU more, they still aren't perfect and there are delays when things start playing back from the moment you press "play". Something has to happen to render things out, and it doesn't happen instantly. And yes, I have Resolve Studio which does use the GPU more than the free version.

Everything has a trade-off.