@Ross-Jackson Glad to hear it. It's good to see positive comments on the forum once in a while. Thanks for posting. The majority of users are very satisfied but not many express their satisfaction publicly.

Here is another positive message.
I have been working with video editing on windows based machines since the late 90's. On a serious hobby level. Pinnacle - Adobe Premiere pro 2 (not pirated) and since 2016 it's been Vegas Movie Studio Platinum (Suite) - and now it's Version 17 (built 221).
Vegas Studio Platinum is a really good program that I am pretty much happy with. Once in a while the program crashes. There have been a lot of crashes here lately, but I hope the provider comes up with updates that remedy this.
Windows 10 update can probably also cause irregularities. And maybe it's going completely wrong with the announced Windows 11.

Sincerely

Hans-Jørgen

... with the announced Windows 11

And here was I thinking that MS said back in 2015 that W10 was the last version of Windows and that that version would be continually updated.

I like the UI of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. The feature set is decent.

But, unfortunately, as far as my experience goes especially with the latest build (but before that too), v17 tends to be an unstable heap of trash. It would be nice to get some direct dev team responces on their plans of fixing their not exactly free product and the timeline of said plans.

It feels like they don't think it's a big deal to break a major feature or two with a new build. At the very least they should have rolled back all changes with another build and start working on real fixes with some sort of feel of urgency.

This is my opinion/experience. Maybe I should get Vegas Pro v18 at some point. What do you think? Is it more stable than MSP?

What do you think? Is it more stable than MSP?

Both are well equipped and work very well on both machines I installed them on (signature), unless the right options and settings are choosen.
Yours( settings or hardware) you did not tell here.

I have Intel Core i5-8600K, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, GeForce GTX 1660 Super with Windows 10 64 bit. Videos are mostly encoded with nVidia GPU H264 in 20mbit 1080p30.

Vegas Movie Studio V14 works way better for me and never crashes if you disable GPU acceleration. Disabling it in V17 doesn't improve things one bit. All the people I know who are using V16 and V17 have similar problems too.

@LastofAvari
Are you only complaining or do you want possible help?
For the latter start your own topic in this forum and give there at least the MediaInfo of your sourcefiles, screenshots of your setting in Options/Preferences/Video and Options/Preferences/File I/O and the exact driverversions of your Intel 630 and Nividia 1660 super GPU's.

The thing is I'm editing the same files in the same format in V14 and I haven't got a single crash in an hour. It also keeps up with showing preview at maximum quality with no slowdowns and with GPU acceleration turned off. V17 Can't really do that on the same exact hardware at the same exact settings.

I've created a support request ticket a month ago, regarding "my" problem with frequent freezes and crashes of V17, and after passing some logs, footage samples and various other information that was asked I haven't heard much back.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are making it look like there are only extremely rare occurences of this sort of behaviour and from what I can tell that's not the case. This is a thread about users' feedback on V17 and my take is - it was never stable enough to be truly usable and the latest build made it even worse.

If "only complaining" is your definition of feedback of real experience a plenty of people have, I'm not sure it makes sense to continue this discussion.

Sorry for wasting your time I suppose.

Have a good day.