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Alternative to Sony Vegas
Hi Sony Vegas users. I have been a happy SVPro user, but I am losing patience with Sony Vegas crashes and they don’t seem to go away with recent undates. What would your alternative NLE software be with similar features and flexibility? I plan to stay on PC, so Final Cut is not an option. How about Edius? Premiere, Speededit, or something more simple like Pinnacle? Or maybe something else? Has anyone given some thought regarding this matter?
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hi there. vegas pro 11 is a piece of shit. i was thinking exactly the same way you are thinking now. and you know what i did? i went back to sony vegas pro 10. i have all my plugins and i have not so many crashes 🙂 i mean i have some, very rare and they all come from plugins, not directly from vegas. workflow is back. in general i love sony vegas so i am happy again.
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Sony Vegas Pro 10.0 has been extremely stable for me. I just built a new PC and I only have Vegas Pro 11.0 on it and so far I haven’t seen a reason to go back to 10 but if 11 isn’t stable for you, I would just go back to 10. Learning something new is not trivial. I have Premiere as part of my Adobe CS6 (which I bought for After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator) and every time I try and learn Premiere I give up. Everything is 10x harder to do than in Vegas Pro. I would stay away from Pinnacle, unless you want to appreciate the stability of Vegas Pro because Pinnacle is just a bag of bugs. I don’t know about the others as I haven’t tried them.
~jr
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I agree about Pinnacle. Way back, before DVD Architect was out, I used a fairly expensive DVD authoring tool from Pinnacle. This was the absolute buggiest piece of software I have ever successfully managed to use for any actual work. And they offered no support, only a single update over the life of the program (and that didn’t help much). Maybe they’ve cleaned up their act, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
It’s a shame that Vegas isn’t what it used to be. I haven’t personally had serious issues with Vegas 11 after the updates, but I go get isolated crashes every now and then. But when I first moved to Vegas, I had found serious problems with every other NLE, including Adobe Premiere and ULead Media Studio Pro (ok, sure, it was awhile back). Vegas at the time was the most stable program of any kind I used on any platform, and that included $10K+ EE-CAD tools. It pretty much remained so until the switchover to Sony. No idea if it’s Sony’s environment or just the increased complexity that’s leading to instability. But they’d get an upgrade out of me if they did nothing more than harden the code against these bugs.
-Dave
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