There are many reasons why people switch editing software. Some switch because they've outgrown their current editing software and want to use more "pro" software. Others change because they are trend followers. Others because of hard/software issues with the files they use. Or any combination.

The internet is flooded with "influencers" proclaiming the virtues of competing software. The "elephant" in the room is Davinci Resolve Free, with the emphasis on the word "free". Hosts of influencers touting the benefits/reasons/etc.. This attracts a lot of the new editors, and again, the word "free" is oft mentioned by the influencers. But I've tried a lot of different editing software out there, and find what I feel most comfortable with. I love the editing workflow of Vegas Pro. I have Resolve Studio w/Speed Editor, and have had it for several years now, but I haven't yet edited any video in it. Oh, I've dabbled with it, and can edit if I had to, but the workflow to me, seems more complex than it has to be. Vegas has everything right there on the same page, never leaving it. Fast timeline editing is amazing. Yes, there are issues with the software. But what software does not have issues?

Hoping that Vegas can get sorted out and get a new, great patch out soon.

 

Yeah, my issue was over the course of my editing journey, I also deleted edits knowing they could've been way Better as well and that got me thinking if I needed a better software, so I tried capcut PC for 2½ years, after learning Vegas can use half the plugins and that it has a flow graph exactly like after effects I immediately went back to it. But a nudge was telling me to keep trying after effects that I have to try to get used to it. Because I tried it I went in to try to make full edits dozens of times. So the last time back in November, I took the time and made every trendy effects for edits out there I finally got a feel for the timeline BUT my quality wasn't good even with topaz. Like when I exported there was a black fuzz on the outro and when I tested it in Vegas before moving back officially I saw there wasn't a black fuzz on the black ouro. I guess it composited right so that's when I learned that Vegas was always my golden ticket when it came to editing and I never realized it until now.

I'm a bit like you; I really loved After Effects. In its category, it's THE best (for compositing and 2D animation). There are a few shortcomings with Vegas, like creating shapes—it's complicated—and the precomposition system (nested timeline). The text tool leaves something to be desired, even though I love Vegas' ProType Title, it's getting a bit outdated.

Honestly, I'm looking for a version of Vegas 20 or 21 with Vegas Effects, but I'm having a hard time finding one, lol.

All this to say that Vegas is incredibly comprehensive and powerful i can do everything i want , and in my opinion, it remains number one.

I'm a bit like you; I really loved After Effects. In its category, it's THE best (for compositing and 2D animation). There are a few shortcomings with Vegas, like creating shapes—it's complicated—and the precomposition system (nested timeline). The text tool leaves something to be desired, even though I love Vegas' ProType Title, it's getting a bit outdated.

Honestly, I'm looking for a version of Vegas 20 or 21 with Vegas Effects, but I'm having a hard time finding one, lol.

All this to say that Vegas is incredibly comprehensive and powerful i can do everything i want , and in my opinion, it remains number one.

Well, as for the protyoe tool, it has one advantage that after effects has not.

1. You can select a single word for gradient text and you have to duplicate it on after effects and mask it. Really useful when you want to make one word gradient.

And as for Vegas effects. If you have a version of Hitfilm Pro. You don't need Vegas effects. Since they were literally the same thing I believe.

And I do wish they would update the protyoe tool a tiny bit to make the fade in and fade outs a bit better but it's easy to achieve the after effects look with fade up words. As in example I shared, very easy once you master basics though I'm not quite there yet with the pop up text effects we can do with it as well.

And I also found a way to do the hand writing effect as well from super old Vegas tutorial but with the new masking tool version unlike the old one I saw it made it much easier. And I never masked anything before so that was attempt 1 in this video and it turned out good surprisingly

So clearly people don't give Vegas as much credit as it desveres.

Hopefully I'll do tutorials on all of these kinds of effects in the future soon, like masking a tutorial recording it is way different than editing by itself cause you can't mess up since I use elevenlabs for a voice over. Lol.

>And as for Vegas effects. If you have a version of Hitfilm Pro. You don't need Vegas effects. Since they were literally the same thing I believe.
Whilst this is truish, the advantage of Vegas Effects - back when it was supported - is that it was integrated into Vegas Pro

>And as for Vegas effects. If you have a version of Hitfilm Pro. You don't need Vegas effects. Since they were literally the same thing I believe.
Whilst this is truish, the advantage of Vegas Effects - back when it was supported - is that it was integrated into Vegas Pro

Ah ok, it had a dynamic link between them like premiere and after effects then. I didn't know that. I got Vegas pro 21 I think when I got Vegas. I don't think I had Vegas 20. Maybe I did

Edit: I guess I did have Vegas 20 but I only bought Vegas pro edit and not the suit subscription. .

Oh and if you do have Vegas Effects you can pretty much exactly duplicate the basic method usually used in After Effects for handwriting text animation

>Ah ok, it had a dynamic link between them 
Yep

Oh and if you do have Vegas Effects you can pretty much exactly duplicate the basic method usually used in After Effects for handwriting text animation

Ah ok. Cool. They should really. Make something like that again. That would be awesome.

These are the tutorials I have in mind for Vegas Pro edits like in after effects.

1. How to get 4k quality in Vegas Pro using topaz and Aiarty video enhancement

2. How to do smooth Twixtor in Vegas Pro

3. How to Make Smooth zooms in Vegas Pro

4. How to make a custom Deep Glow Effect in Vegas pro

5. How to make a custom Glitchify effect in Vegas pro

6. How to mark beats easily in Vegas Pro using VEGASAUR

That's what I have in mind so far for tutorials there are some for edits like I showed above but there from 2020-2023 there's one channel that still makes Vegas Pro tutorials since they edit with it.

I was also thinking of doing like an overview of Vegas Pro for the people who make edits like I do but I wouldn't know where to begin with that.

And reasons why Vegas Pro is a underestimated video editor.

Yes it was for dynamic link, some things a bit harder on vegas seemed easier in Effects, if i'm correct it's 19 20 21 version and Hitfilm was bought out (by Artlist?) and unfortunately it's impossible to update the software with the new versions of Vegas.

I'm agree with you, Vegas is underestimated.

>Hitfilm was bought out (by Artlist?) 
And then shut down

>some things a bit harder on vegas seemed easier in Effects
Well, yes. They are designed for different things.

Not sure if this is right place to ask my question, but any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm running vegas pro 21. Typically, I live-switch a conference (talking head at a podium) with three cameras through an atem mini extreme, and record the output live to a mp4 file, and import the "flat" and switched file later into vegas. Normally the three cameras are color/contrast matched close enough, so I just have to adjust the contrast a bit, knowing, for good or ill, that the adjustment is going to apply to all three cams indiscriminately. I've been trying, and have recently been delighted to discover the "detect scenes" command which works perfectly for me, which places a cut each time the scene/camera changes. Now, I have to manually move the cam/clips each to a different track while keeping in the right chronological sequence. Here at last is the question: is there any way, either in the project media bin or on the timeline, that I can easily identify and "select" each camera automatically, so that I can easily move cam 1 cam 2 and cam 3 clips to their correct track (so I can color correct each track independently?) Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance!