Scripts
Ease of use
Saving projects over networks
Automatic save in case of windows failure
Multiple tracks
Extensive sound capabilities (5.1)
Auto timeline movement when playing
Keystrokes
Vertical and Horizontal track adjustment
External monitor preview and split screen
Ram preview
Loop select render
Stability
High Def edit and render
Lots more that I can't remember

JJK

Top thingy?
Well it's more of what it DOESN'T do:

CRASH!

Second on my list:

Absense of arcane widgets in the GUI.

You did say no comaprisions but I've just had a glass of Bourbon so I'm gonna make a comparison, OK!

I foolishly got sucked into trying to help someone with a FCP problem yesterday, I'd say 60% of the things on the screen that I asked the guy what they were for he didn't know and I'd be damned if they were obvious to me either. I'm happy about all the things that Vegas DOESN't do. Why, because everyone of them that people complain about is one more thing to clutter up the screen, one more thing to click at the wrong time and one more thing to explain to the newbies and another 50 pages to be added to the manual.

I like how you can have more then 1 copy open at once. :) 1 to render 1 to edit and 1 to impress people. :) That was with a p3-667 too. No slowdowns. :)

The forum(s). 'Way helpful. DGrob

#1 switching from Premiere
#2 switching from Premiere
#3 switching from Premiere
#4 (you get the idea...)

Greg

The way it's possible to have three windows open at once, showing RGB parade, color curves and the event, for adjusting the image.

Working with a company I consult with today and they had me in to train them on the basics .ie creating DVD's and such. The main guy there was using Premire 6.5 and had some questions on it. I answered them as I have used P before. I was very nice and didn't dog P. But he was complaining how he hated the preview of changes and stability problems. Anyways I just so happend to have my Laptop with me ,-) with Vegas and wanted to show him Vegas. Simply put he was blown away at the stuff I could do real time while video was playing back. Showed him how you could apply any FX and adjusting them while video was playing! He was very impressed to say the least. I love the real time effects of Vegas to me it is one of the best features.

Also the stability, I have only had Vegas crash 3 or 4 times and it always opened back up with what I was working on at the time and prompting me to save it.

1. I agree with "switching from Premiere"
2. I agree with "switching from Premiere"
3.I agree with "switching from Premiere"
.....
So stable, Vegas rocks...the first time seeing that live preview and then turning on the loop, wow! And the user community is great, so helpful.

- The ability and the willingness of this community to share .veg files.

- Generated Media - a vast, slowly emerging gold mine.

I'm earning extra $$$$ with it.

Thank You Vegas.

The Southern California Vegas Users Group. 300 Strong and Growing!

Open to All Vegas Users - Worldwide!

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Not necessarily in order:

Pan and Crop on Each Event
Track Motion
Scripts
Audio Tools
Color Correction Flexibility
Compositing Tools
Stability and Responsiveness
Auto Crossfades
Integration with DVDA

Mike

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Zipps... your posts are definitely the low point.

Easy to use.
Workspace friendly (especially with dual monitors).
Audio is second to none.
Transitions are for kids, but plentiful when you need them!

Generated text.
FX allows me to make my own digital backgrounds.

Adobe and FCP (final cut pro), YOU GOIN DOWN!!!
It's just a matter of time...

Combined with Sound Forge 6 or 7 it is an excellent audio editor, better than Adobe's latest offering and I prefer the SOny solution to Pro Tools (which is okay too, just not as easy to use)

Peter

Why is Vegas the best? Simply because you can create, instead of having to learn the conventions of the system (*cough, AVID, *cough). I feel like my hands are bound and tied whenever I shift over to Avid Xpress...

Best peripheral Vegas experience-- the fact that someone in this forum mentioned Particle Illusion 2 SE came with Digit. I have been hooked ever since! It truly beats the hell out of the AE particle system!

David.

1. Most recent best exp. Was doing a picture montage with about 300 pics. I noticed a duplicate on the TL and wanted to replace it with one from the Media Pool. But the Media Pool and TL pics were only numbered NOT named. What to do to find a pic in the Media Pool, and not on the TL?
Right click, select events to end on pics on TL. Right click again, select, select in Media Pool, and (drum roll please) ALL events currently on the TL were grayed out and a few dozen pics not used were still with white background. WOW . More learning less headache.
2. Scripts and that community. John.

Real time effects. They're great!!

Hey Grazie, ya gonna do an Excel spreadsheet with all this stuff and let us know the stats??? DGrob

That is NOW becoming a real option as people are "Coming Out!" as it were .. I wanted to see what would come outta the woodwork on this .. I really am interested to see the real Golden Nuggets emerge. Our Vegas has much to offer .. I believe that if Sony would post this somewhere it would be a real .. I don't know .. . a real world expereintial thingy - yeah?

I'd like to see the SS having Gaps that could be updated by "new" ways .. New Futures and all that yeah? . .. More than just a "Wish List!" more of a Darwinian Evolution table of effectiveness - yeah?

I'll get on the case Grobsie .. promise!!

Grazie

Simulatneously doing:
-4 (FOUR!) renders of one hour video each
-while listening to music
-and surfing the internet

on only an 800 mhz system...Vegas rocks.

Carson Calderwood