Vegas pro edit 14 worth getting?

VEGASDerek wrote on 3/17/2021, 2:26 PM

I am unaware of us having any Humble Bundle offers at the moment.

Marco. wrote on 3/17/2021, 2:29 PM

Just checked, no special offer available.

walter-i. wrote on 3/17/2021, 2:33 PM

The "cheapest" one I see there is Vegas Pro Edit 15 or 16 for € 399,-

VEGASDerek wrote on 3/17/2021, 2:34 PM

I should add that is it very unlikely we will be doing any offers on Humble Bundle in the near future. While previous specials have resulted in very large responses, the costs to us in licensing fees are enormous. (There is a reason the regular price for VP is so high.) I would expect any future Humble Bundle deals would more likely be focused around Movie Studio, which has much lower third party licensing fees.

vkmast wrote on 3/17/2021, 2:37 PM

Seems Steam Store has VEGAS Pro 14 Edit Steam Edition on offer (~55€) still for about 20 hours.

andyrpsmith wrote on 3/18/2021, 8:46 AM

In my view you could buy V14 and use it to provide an upgrade discount to V18. V14 has none of the really useful features that later versions have (bug fixes, much much better GPU management, colour grading, the list goes on). I left Power Director at version 14 as Vegas can do so much more so easily. Although even earlier versions of Power Director could use GPU better than Vegas. V18 is the best version yet (if you leave dynamic Ram preview alone as too many misunderstand what it is for).

red-diamond wrote on 3/18/2021, 9:46 AM

Yes, to answer your question, any version of Vegas would be worth getting over Power Director. I used Power Director after abandoning Avid Liquid Pro. And while there were some charming things about it there were several very basic frustrations about it. There's not enough space to go on about it but if you get it you'll see what I mean, especially in editing with the timeline and the way edits are made. In addition, the power and speed built into the Vegas timeline and the ease of working your edits will impress you.

In addition to AVID Liquid Pro and PowerDirector, I have used Pinnacle's products, Media Composer, Premiere Pro, and Toaster. Nothing beats Vegas.

Reyfox wrote on 3/19/2021, 6:37 AM

After trying VP14 (a HB deal a few years ago) got me into the Vegas Pro ecosystem. After using it for 2 weeks, I upgraded to VP15 Suite and been a VP person since. Using VP18 now. I had a friend that was using Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate, wanted to do some green screen and was having some issues. Me, someone who has never done green screen, took his footage and in 2 minutes, success. He had had VP15 (a HB deal) for a long time. Finally, he decided to use it. After an hour of answering questions and him using it, he upgraded to VP18 and bought Continuum 2021 and Mocha Pro. He hasn't looked back.

Dexcon wrote on 3/19/2021, 7:15 AM

@danaiveys29 ... given the responses re Vegas Pro and Humble Bundle, be careful that you are not looking on a scam website pretending to be Humble Bundle. If it looks 'too good to be true' there's probably a 'not good' reason for that especially given that Vegas staff have advised that there is no current Vegas Pro offer through Humble Bundle. Caveat Emptor.

That said, my first NLE was ULead VideoStudio in around 2002 (only 3 audio tracks - ugh!) and then its next few versions. I finally came across Vegas Pro 10 and bought it. The difference was chalk and cheese. As I recall, if I pushed up saturation in VideoStudio beyond a small amount, color artefacts would appear in the image - not so in Vegas Pro. Back some 10 years ago or so, I trialed Premiere and Pinnacle (Liquid I think), and they were to my mind at the time user-unfriendly and clumsy. Vegas Pro was way more intuitive. BTW, before entering the digital NLE world, I had a long history in the professional film and TV industry in the analogue days but including the introduction of computer controlled technology like CMX editing.