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Can Vegas 11 get any MORE buggy?
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Agree, I have always crash when I need to trim clip in multicamera mode
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Erik, I do get ‘it’. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, particularly with the use of the term lemmings. I was comparing our compulsion to upgrade SVP to that of a common myth, as explained below:
“Lemming Suicide Plunge” – where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be dashed to their deaths on the rocks below, or to drown in the raging ocean. Indeed, this myth is now a metaphor for the behaviour of crowds of people who foolishly follow each other, lemming-like, regardless of the consequences.
😉
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For me, V8 was the most stable. I skipped V9 because it also had many grumblings of crashing. I tried a trial of it and it seemed worse than V8 by far (for me). I went to V10 because of AVCHD support. It worked OK, but still crashed WAY more than V8. Now I’m on V11, but only after their latest build. It seems much more stable (for me) than V10. I have projects started on V10 that get a bit complicated over time and eventually start to hang or crash, so I converted them to V11. No more hangs or crashes. And this is all on a very new and mostly clean PC, Win7, latest i7 cpu, GTX570 gpu, etc.
Oh, and gpu cuda support DOES work well for me, but is only noticeable when previewing 4 streams of avchd in multicam mode. Something V10 does not do well.
That said, I will most likely skip V12, at least for a couple of builds. But then again, for $130 upgrade, it’s not a big deal to download it.
-Jim.
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[Lance Bachelder] “11 has been the worst version ever of Vegas”
No… That distinction goes to version 8.1! I couldn’t use it all! At least I can use 11.
Edward Troxel
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I’m sure I’m in the minority here, but V11 has got to the point where it’s more stable in my use than V10 was. Of course, V10 broke more things for me than anything other than V8.1, which of course wasn’t really sold as a finished thing, so much as a 64-bit preview.
Could Vegas get worse? It certainly has got worse; it was at one point in time the most stable piece of software I used on any platform. Not any longer, not by far. On the other, there have been other so-called “professional” programs that were so buggy, they should have qualified as fraud. One was ULead’s Media Studio Pro — so buggy it was virtually impossible to load DV files and edit without fatal crashes. They put out one small bug fix in more than two years.. clearly, they were not supporting it.
But the winner was Pinnacle Impression, a DVD authoring program. This was a $350 program, back in the early days of DVD, which I gather had formerly been from Minerva and sold for thousands. Apparently, Pinnacle bought only the code, not the team, and processed to destroy it. Or maybe it was that buggy from the start. You had to spend about a week to learn which features actually worked, which crashed, and which just corrupted your project file, so that next time, it just wouldn’t load. I used this for two major projects, it did pay for itself ultimately, but never again, even though it did permit things I don’t think you can still accomplish in DVDA. Not at all easy — DVDA lets you bang out a DVD interface fast, and then do the same for a BD version. But it inserts its own abstraction over the DVD mechanisms to accomplish that; Impression was much more “to the metal”.
-Dave
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Yes, so many went under Dave!!
Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I’m with you. Vegas 11 has been the buggiest version yet. I just had to stop editing to find if anyone else was having difficulties with simple tasks.
Vegas 10 sails on my machine, no problems whatsoever. When I open Vegas 10 files in 11, it moves around graphic overlay elements to completely different locations, disregards fades, messes up key frame FX animation, etc. The text and FX fields seem to eat up 10x the amount of resources compared to 10. This has caused the majority of my crashes.
Yeah, inferior product. This new interface made to look like other editors was a loss, in my opinion.
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