Again, please, let's avoid any and all contentious arguments.

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What is a professional tool?

This is commonly understood to refer to a tool that is of lasting value, that is worth learning and then using.

It does NOT refer to a tool that can "do everything," nor does it necessarily refer to a tool that is "the best for everything."

Sorry, but it sounds to me like the question you are really asking is "What will other pros think of me if I use Vegas?"

If you are sensitive to that, you could try say Avid Media Composer. That will earn you respect, but unfortunately also scorn, "How can you use that obsolete cr*p? Are you totally nuts?"

So you then switch to FCP, which earns you respect, but then your old Avid buddies say, "How can you use that toy NLE?"

So you go back to Vegas with your tail between your legs, determined to never again give a rat's patootie what other people say about your tools.

Vegas is for people with solid self esteem, the lone wolf type who couldn't care less about what others are doing.

OTOH, it is not for those pros who need to work with high end formats or those who need to interchange footage with non-Vegas editors and post people.

It's just too painful for that, and if you haven't tried, you have no idea how incredibly painful it can be. I spent years trying, and I ain't going there again.

So nothing prevents Vegas from being a professional NLE for all kinds of videographers and microfilmmakers, as long as they can work on their own or limit themselves to working with other Vegas users.

It is a professional tool used to make money for pros every day.

My question is: What, at a minimum, prevents Vegas Pro from being a truly "professional" NLE?

not being used by someone who does editing work "professionally" (ie getting paid).

IE: Blender isn't considered "professional" BUT people use it to make $$ & in place of other 3d apps in some cases (like making a movie, FX, etc), so it's "professional" no matter what the people who use Maya, 3DSMax, Lightwave, etc. say. Same with Vegas.

my post made no sense since jay deleted

I know people who make $$ of HDV (would definitely be considered "pro" by any standard) so the format isn't a question either.

A more proper question(s) would be: what would it take for Vegas to be accepted by someone in X industry.

And that wouldn't matter, people don't want to change anyway!

the only professional tool i've ever owned is my brain (some might argue that it's not all that professional at times), however, i often have recourse to extraneous equipment in order to 'commercialise / visualise' my brains output.

in the many years i've been paid to use my 'brain', i've used numerous extraneous 'tools', such as cameras, nle's, photo manipulation programs, etc., some have had the term 'pro' in their name, others not, but it never mattered as long as it got the job done.

i've always thought that if you have to argue / defend your choice of tool, then both you and your protagonist are holding the wrong end of the stick.

ask not what you can do with your nle, but what your nle can do for you. and if it can't do it - move on....

om,

leslie

Wow, this is a first. A whole discussion started over one quoted word.