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vegas pro comparison
Hi all. I’ve been using Vegas Pro for 5 years now, but am seriously thinking of changing over to premier. I’m in the processing of downloading the trial from Adobe.
While this is happening, I’m curious to find out if it would take a lot of adjusting to learn how to use premier pro. Any advice greatly received.
PS Would any of my vegad pro projects work with premier pro.
Chris Siers -
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Vegas is kind of it’s own beast and editing paradigm, much like FCPX while PPRo uses the industry standard Source/Record methods and manages media and projects in Bins. Vegas is explorer based so you can quickly pull in any media from drives and directories that you create right to the timeline or Trimmer. In Premiere you’ll import your media into a specific bin and then cut it in from there though there is a Media Browser for fast importing similar to Vegas. Vegas requires you to manage media well outside of the app, while PPro will let you take organizing media a bit further by setting up proper bins inside the app.
Once you get used to it you may like editing and organizing better in PPro. If you use a lot of audio in your work you’ll miss Vegas a lot, it’s just so fast and great at handling sound design, mixing etc. right in the NLE without the need to ever send sound out to another app. If you shoot with any flavor of Sony XDCAM gear Vegas is far better at handling the native footage and audio than any other NLE out there.
One big benefit you’ll have with Adobe is being cross-platform. If you decide to switch to a Mac you can while Vegas sadly is Windows only. Both are solid NLE’s that can be used well for virtually any type of show from news to feature films.
Finally yes you can export an .AAF of your project(must use 32bit Vegas for exporting .aaf) and import that into PPro.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Thanks for the advice and comparison, Lance
As you say, yes it would appear it will be necessary to adapt to a different way. Pros and cons with both software. I certainly am happy with the way I can do what I loke with the audio tracks in Vegas – I do tend to use a lot of individual audio in some of my projects.
I’ve downloaded the trial of PPro, and have just discovered that I need Win 7. My editing computer is a very good and fast Dell with 5 large external hard disk drives, but I’m running XP Pro. I do have win 7 ultimate on my laptop, but with limited disk drive resouce.
A lot to consider, if I do make the change.
Once again – thank you
Chris siers
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When I put one video track over another to do a pip it bleeds thru to the bottom one even if the opacity is at 100%. Why is this?
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