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Audio Editing
I have been a professional Audio engineer most of my adult life 30 years. I started editing on Vegas when it was called something else and I got given a crack. Now I own pro 11 and love it. I recently had to mix two albums that were recorded with pro tools so I went and purchased the software. All I can say is THANK YOU SONY. All you people out there that think sony is for video, guess what it absolutely shits on Pro tools and Cubase for editing audio. I always wondered why people on pro-tools took forever to do a simple edit and now I know.
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Glad to hear that you are impressed with Vegas’s versatility.
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I’m with you Mark. I’ve sound designed several feature films and TV shows in Vegas – WHILE I was cutting picture and finished the final 5.1 mix while color timing using pro plug-ins for audio such as WAVES and isotope! Can’t do that in ANY other application.
Hilarious that Pro Tools 10 now allows real-time fades etc. without rendering a new file – revolutionary!
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
I’m of the opinion that as I’ve been using Vegas for 10 years now, that the ease with which the “editor” can get to creative decisions, is influencing the very nature and type of finished product we produce. I’ve starting to maybe recognise output that has been cut with Vegas. There’s a type of immediacy and style. Maybe I’m wrong, but SONY are developing a core set of tools to manipulate media that are not found elsewhere. And that this results in providing the media artist vast options to discover their creations from their Video and Audio content.
We are standing at a crossroad of opportunity for SCS. The busting out of OFX, the search for better fps preview using GPU for render, the multiplicity of extra editing assists from Vegas5 onwards points to how the company wants to take these products. As long as SCS spends time and money on hand holding users through thee changes Vegas has a bright and spectacularly stellar future.
Can I see a Vegas Graphics Editir? Why not? Thinking outside the box? How about an entirely different box altogether!
As I say “crossroads” time. Just remember that Robetrt Johnson recording.
Cheers
Grazie
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Vegas 1 and 2 were strictly audio editors. Video was added with Version 3.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Video was added in Version 2 – I know I bought the retail box for $499 at Frys after seeing Sonic Foundry booth at the DV Expo in Long Beach way back when… maybe 1999 or 2000.
I became a beta tester not long after for version 3 thru the present…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
I too have been doing audio for +30 years (as a profession). To me, there is one bug in Ver. 11 that needs to be fixed. The solo function does not work when trying to solo an audio bus. It will solo the bus from the other buses, but not from the rest of the individual tracks.
Maybe this is some new thing which Sony thinks is better…but to me it is a bug. I use the solo function for buses quite often…and it does not work. It worked great in Ver. 8c which is what I upgraded from to 11.
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Yes I noticed this problem too – was never a problem in 10 or earlier when the buss controls were also located next to the Preview and Master faders which I prefer and used daily.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Vegas can also hold its own in high end Compositing.
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956 -
Lance, I wasn’t sure when this changed as I jumped from 8.0c to 11. I also liked the sub mixes placed in the master window like it was in the earlier versions.
I really don’t understand why they changed this. I actually upgraded to 11 because I bought a hi def camera and 11 does seem to handle hi def video better. But as far as audio, I’d rather use 8.0 than 11.
I even bought Cakewalk X1 Expanded to start doing audio on…because I was getting so many random “Sony Vegas has stopped working…” crashes. I am just now finding time to mess with the Sonar software. It does have a lot of useful functions and is actually geared more toward audio than Vegas is. But I am so used to using Vegas for audio that it’s just a pain to have to learn new software after spending money to upgrade Vegas.
I just wish they would fix the bus solo function as I use that all the time…and it no longer works 🙁 .
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ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 GB DDR 5
Intel i7 2600k 3.4 Ghz
Corsair HX750 power supply
Two Seagate Barracuda 500g SATA III drives
16 Gig G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
Canopus ACEDVio card
Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
Win 7 Pro
VEGAS 8.0
VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
Sony VX2100
Sony HVR-Z7U
Sony HDR-CX130
Alesis HD24 -
Also Ted, i wish they would just fix some of the other
little bugs that’s lurking in the corners myself…..Then again
there is nothing in this world that’s perfect.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
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