I've got better responsiveness with VP18 as well. At least, so far, so good. I hope others chime in. I've been outspoken about things I find disappointing regarding Vegas; this Version is NOT that....not long on features, LONG on functionality, stability. Love it.

I think they are on the right track. They should use me as a "user consultant" on the GUI...Gary, feel free to contact me.

Vegas has always been stable for me. But i was really delighted and thrilled at how far Vegas Pro 17 had come and further improved.... Then comes Vegas Pro 18, which has taken it that much further and better.

Magix is on a wonderful path with Vegas Pro.....

I had soured on Vegas awhile back and had version 15 installed but since I hadn’t shot any video in a year, I had decided to just let things lie around ever using Vegas again. Due to the pandemic and social distancing, a client approached me to shoot a series of interviews and create a narrative story based on those interviews. Just as I started the project, I received the announcement of Vegas 18 being on sale. I was really skeptical that anything g had been improved around stability and certain features I wanted that were already in Resolve. My biggest issue with the latter was system requirements and wrapping my head around node based color correction/grading. It just didn’t make sense to me intuitively. I kept saying to myself “I wish Vegas could do this or that...”

Well it seems it now does and I’m all the happier for it. I’m a one man operation so anything that can improve my efficiency especially in post production I’m all for. Magix has shown me that Vegas 18 can do that.

Thanks to all the code crunchers at Magix for making Vegas Pro 18 a solid piece of software.

Just wait until VEGAS Hub launches, and the media manager... Those are coming soon, as well, as free updates to 18.

The hub is centered around an internet based editing experience. Cloud storage, easily collaborating on projects with others... gonna be some cool stuff.

The Media Manager is exactly that, and what VEGAS has been needing for a long time.

I've always wondered what it would take to make VEGAS the number 1 industry standard NLE, and as time passes I realize more and more, "just be VEGAS while being able to do what all the others can do as well". People just like VEGAS and how it operates, how intuitive the UI is. Nothing else matches it, and that's VEGAS strongest point. Now that VEGAS is approaching feature parity with the others, I think we're going to see it start to grow quickly. Good things have been happening for VEGAS internally as well, behind the scenes, I have good hope for its future.

Keep it up guys (developers). Working very well. Just don't force me onto Win 10, working great on Win 7.

Indeed fr0sty, Vegas Pro has a very bright future on this path. Plus all the third party big wigs are now paying far more serious attention and support.

Well, it seems my expectations of Vegas being solid are being somewhat dashed...

I've had Vegas 18 latest release crash more than once in the middle of editing (Proverbial "Vegas has stopped working" message as Vegas goes white and crashes) and then I lose what editing I had done, sometimes a fair amount of editing - Then I receive messages like this: "The PC level is not defined in the levels effect Vegas Pro" - not sure what that means.

My hardware specs are pretty solid with nothing out of the ordinary IMO. Drivers are up to date, etc.

I'm beginning to wonder if I've invested yet again in software I won't be able to rely upon. What am I missing here?

"Then I receive messages like this: "The PC level is not defined in the levels effect Vegas Pro" - not sure what that means."

To me this looks like you use the Preview Levels extension but you lost the Levels FX "PC Levels" preset somehow (which the Preview Levels extension needs to work properly).
In this case re-installing the Preview Levels extension should solve at least this particular issue.

I discovered that after I posted and reinstalled that extension although I now realize that I dont' need it given Vegas Pro 18 does full level 8 bit natively - I'm unsure about the crashing given I'm still editing 1080p footage on a simple timeline and haven't applied any effects. The only difference is I'm nesting timelines which is something I've never done before.

Cliff, what GPU & drivers are you using? = also what build version of w10

Cliff, what GPU & drivers are you using? = also what build version of w10

Latest updated version of Windows 10 Pro, GPU = ASUS Strix GTX 1080 8GB, Drivers = 452.06 Studio Drivers

Just to try, I have the 1080Ti and it is working really well with V18 using driver 456.71 - maybe give it ago (no studio version of this driver yet available) - also set dynamic ram preview to 0. ( W10 build 19041.546)

Following the instructions and the Helpfile option of VP18 the latest Studio Nvidia driver is 456.38. Works with me excellent on laptop, also with 4K AVC DJI and 4K HEVC GOPro files, unless everything in the settings of Video Acceleration and File I/O is at default after installing..

Well, now I'm beginning to see what I've come to know about Vegas as being sketchy at best... Moving a short subclip on the timeline all of a sudden causes the following in order - I'm on the verge of requesting a full refund and starting over from scratch in Resolve 16 - this is ridiculous and unacceptable that moving a simple clip causes Vegas to crash.. more than once! Footage is from my Olympus Pen-f mirrorless cameras and using native .MOV files from the cameras.

Do your MOV files require Quicktime or does Vegas decode them natively?

I second that VP 18 is pretty stable and love the new additions.

However, as you're saying the NESTED TIMELINE feature is still buggy within VP18. I tried this once and nearly lost my project. I'll wait until that's ironed out.

Beyond Nested Timelines, I haven't seen any major hiccups. Knock on wood.

Since the last update, and since a couple smaller projects went great, I'm using V18 for a very, very large 4K paid project and it has been going GREAT (YES, knock on wood...). It involves some color editing, stabilization, etc. (using Mercalli stand-alone)... To minimize consequences if something doesn't go well, I've kept each 30-60 minute segment as its' own VEG...

This week I was able to render (4-5) instances of Vegas in the background, which together use 100% of my 9900K CPU & 50% of my VEGA 64 LQ GPU, and then STILL open a NEW (6th) instance of Vegas & start editing right-away without any slow-downs, crashes, etc. Very, very pleased. The only issues is that since I've got my 9900K at 4.9 ghz for this one, ALL of my Corsair H150i & GPU radiators fans spin-up & my studio gets a little warm. It's been cool outside where I live, so I just open some windows & save on A/C... But ya, this is about the SOONEST I've been able to use a new release after launch...

I have noticed speed and stability improvements under the hood, and I am quite impressed, and looking forward to the other improvements ahead as mentioned by @fr0sty.

However I am a bit worried, with my A7Siii arriving soon, there is no proper support for HEVC 10-bit 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 and 4ch audio with the so4compound crashing VP, this is a showstopper that needs to be addressed quickly; this camera is a game changer for Sony content creators and I'd say many would want to use and edit this properly. Other NLEs are having difficulties with this too, so it would be an opportunity for the Magix team to get the upper hand here

I will be forever grateful to Magix for picking up where Sony dropped off and continuing to support and develop a great video editing program. I also think that this forum and the hard-core Vegas users are very much a part of Vegas' success too.

I will be forever grateful to Magix for picking up where Sony dropped off and continuing to support and develop a great video editing program. I also think that this forum and the hard-core Vegas users are very much a part of Vegas' success too.

+10

@walter-i. & @karma17 - Please, please remember the KUDOS and love to Gary and the OLD firm that came with it, who believe in the Product and ever more so us USERS! Been following these chaps and their devotion to VP over the decades. They’ve had Stormy weather and more stormy waters to navigate through. So here’s to ALL Team Vegas - us included. Cheers 🥂 🍻.

I use the Vegas nested timeline quite extensively in both in Vegas 17 and now 18, and never an issue, perfectly stable and very convenient to use, given the recent improvement done to it a while back!