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Upgrading my VEGAS Pro 11
I bought VegasPro 11 in 2012, running on a Pentium with W7. John Rufrano gave me a long time ago some tips to start. Later I replaced disk C: to SSD and upgraded to Windows 10. Now the PC is very old and very slow, but it still works with Vegas.
In 2012 and 2013 I entered old analog footage through CANOPUS, used Video NEAT and audio SOUNDSOAP for filtering and developped them for clips.
I’m not a pro, just developping my holiday footage for my family. I may use the SW 20% of its capabillities, but was happy to work with. 😃I saw an upgrade to VP19 for just 50$. Would this version of VP work with all videos I developped with VP11?? I’m ready to buy a new PC to run the new version.😅
Thanks for any suggestions.
Heinz
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Hey, your system specs do look fairly outdated, and I’m actually somewhat doubtful if they’ll be supported by the current version of Vegas Pro. You can look at the system requirements here.
As for whether VP19 will work with all of the VP11 developed videos – I’d like to say that yes, they should. You can actually test this before buying the upgrade by downloading the free trial (there’s a link at the bottom of the requirements page with a label “Free trial”). In addition you can keep both versions of Vegas Pro installed at the same time. If something doesn’t work in VP19, just do it in VP11. The trial might be VP20, but that shouldn’t matter in your case.
The new version does have a lot of improvements, but if you should actually upgrade is up to you. Will there be a measurable benefit from the upgrade or will it just be a new interface? Will you use any of the new features? Are there any bugs that annoy you in VP11? etc. etc.
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Thanks Aivis for your explaination. I’m in the process of configuring the new Windows PC for the V19 or V20 version. I’m not a Pro and make my holiday and travel footage to present them to family and friends.
Can anybody help me with required specs for the PC?I suggest Core i5 6 cores, 12-th Generation 2,5 GHz turbo 4,4GHz
24GB DRAMM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 – 12288 MB,
Drive C: 1 TB SSD, Drive D: 1 – 2 TB HDD
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For Vegas Pro – that’s mostly plenty I’d say. If possible I suggest you go for a CPU that has a higher base clock. Might be less power efficient, but I reckon it’ll be worth it overall.
However, one thing I’d definitely recommend you up is RAM. Go for at least 32GB (2×16) and pay attention to the frequency. Essentially the higher the better. Especially important if you work with higher definition footage.
GPU and storage looks fine. Just don’t go for the super cheap storage options as they might actually lack some features or be surprisingly slow.
If you haven’t built systems before I strongly suggest you visit pcpartpicker and first build it there, see if everything’s compatible. You can also check some completed builds there – don’t hesitate to borrow some ideas from those.
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Thank you for your help.
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