Thinking about moving to Vegas (from Premiere of course)

[Perry Cheng]

Well, thank you folks for all the input. I have been using Prem for years, to make a switch is really a difficult decision. But, aside from Adobe sometimes driving me crazy on their policies, I like Prem Pro. Contrary to what ‘mrbb’ stated in his post, Prem does display things (e.g. filter applied) in Realtime for most effects without me having to render them for preview. (He might have his setting mixed up to render every time?)

Anyway, the main reason for consider upgrade are:
1. PPro’s ability to import flash files (ironically after acquiring Macromedia, PPro 2 does not state it can or not to import swi or swf.)
2. PPro rendered quality is not very clean and vivid! It takes a long time compared to other Rendering Codecs
3. Vegas include: Boris Grafitti Ltd, Boris FX Ltd for Vegas, and Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD50, 5.1-channel AC-3 encoding, Copy-protection tools, Multilangual DVD, Elementary stream import… (Filters…)

4. NOW, the competitive upgrade is only $299 for Vegas6 + DVD Architech (After $100 rebate) while PPro 2.0 upgrade is $199!!!!!

I have couple more days to think about!!!

Thanks again folks.
Perry

[Gary Kleiner]

Just a couple of details:

Magic Bullet can be nice for film looks, but is notoriously slow to render.

No copy protection if you are burning your discs. This only applies if you are sending projects out for replication.

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Agree with ” Steve Mann ” Too true man too true