Vegas Pro 18 EXCEEDING my expectations (so far)...

Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/1/2020, 8:52 PM

I'm pleasantly stunned at how stable Vegas Pro 18 has been so far. I honestly think this is the best version I've ever used (and I go all the way back to version 4)

The new tools I've been using that I wished had been there for ages have made my editing experience so far almost painless and have been trouble free.

The color match feature is truly astounding IMO. It's allowing me to match footage from my second interview camera to my primary even though their exposure settings were the same (still haven't figured out why they look different - but that's another story)

The 8 bit full levels feature has saved me so much time in rendering - I don't have to remember to change my settings before which I use to do all the time, and thus would lose valuable time having to render again.

Integration with Sound Forge Pro 14 is an added bonus in doing noise reduction from ambient traffic noise in some of my outdoor interview material.

No crashes, no lock ups... I'm beside myself in finally being able to use Vegas Pro to get work done quickly without fighting instability.

Kudos to Magix for getting this version right

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fr0sty wrote on 10/19/2020, 4:20 AM

? .veg files are saved... not "rendered" per se... on my system the saving process is almost immediate, and usually anytime there's a background operation going on, there's a progress bar in the bottom left. Can you elaborate more about this freezing you are experiencing?

set wrote on 10/19/2020, 9:46 AM

Perhaps 'not rendered', but 'audio proxy generated'.

michael-harrison wrote on 10/19/2020, 11:31 AM

@fr0sty he's referring to nested veg files, which have to be rendered to be usable in an upper-level project

walter-i. wrote on 10/19/2020, 12:37 PM

? .veg files are saved... not "rendered" per se... on my system the saving process is almost immediate, and usually anytime there's a background operation going on, there's a progress bar in the bottom left. Can you elaborate more about this freezing you are experiencing?

@fr0sty
In the German version - if the audio proxy are generated - it is translated as "render".

From 7 to 25 and from 1:30 to 1:52 Vegas Pro 18 leaves me unclear whether it is working in the background or not. I would like a progress bar or some other notification.

fr0sty wrote on 10/19/2020, 1:59 PM

Interesting, I seem to remember getting notifications of proxy creation for nested projects. I'll test it out later today when I get some free time, and I'll pass it along to the dev team if I can reproduce it (assuming they haven't already read this).

Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/20/2020, 3:07 PM

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)

I discovered they now have a studio version of the driver and updated to that. I've now resorted to ctrl-S after every change to my timeline...

TheRhino wrote on 10/20/2020, 10:42 PM

I've been using Vegas since 3.0 for paid work. Last week I edited over 15 hours of 4K video for paying clients using the last update of V18 & did not have one single crash. Not one! So happy! Also, when I rendered-out the final client videos, I opened (6) instances of Vegas and had (5) rendering approx. one hour of video each to 5 different codecs (each) while I edited the next project in a 6th instance of Vegas without any issues. My 9900K CPU was at 100% usage and VEGA 64 LQ at almost 50% usage nearly 8-9 hours per day plus I allowed some of the renders to finish after I left for the day without incident...

Not only am I happy with editing within Vegas 18 but also with how well it performs on my system when multiple instances are running. I really don't need to upgrade another workstation to do background renders since multiple instances of V18 are running so smoothly. My $200 upgraded saved me $1500+ in hardware upgrades (for now) and I just made my first $2,000 using V18 from start to finish... Honestly, since I had no crashes & everything was running well during background renders it probably saved me a day of work vs. using V15-V17 for the same projects...

BTW, ALL of the drives on my 9900K system are super-fast otherwise if you have a lot of stuff background rendering your project in the foreground will stall occasionally... I have a mix of M.2 and larger SATA drives all in RAID0 configurations with backups across a 10G network...