Vegas or Premiere 1.5 PRO???

[Brian Deviteri]

have you used or are you experienced with Photoshop or any other Adobe products at all? what type of work will you be doing and how are you shooting your footage (camera, format, etc)?

[Steven L. gotz]

The strongest point for Premiere Pro is probably the ability to copy and paste over to After Effects. I don’t know enough about Vegas to make any other comparisons.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I have never used Vegas but know Premeire Pro very well. I would say Adobe Premiere pro is very flexible with it’s close intergration as Steve said with Adobe After Effects. You can also open your Premeire pro projects in After Effects ready to work as well on more advanced compositing.

Premiere Pro also is very powerful in terms of it’s new project trmming/consolidating functions as well as use of AAF so you can easily work on a higher end system abit like a EDL.

Hope this helps? You may also want to download a trial version of Adpbe Premiere pro just to get to grips with it and see how it works into your work flow? WHat sort of projects are you wanting to undertake as well that would dictate the editor as well. As Adobe Premiere Pro intergrates with the Adobe video collection, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Encore DVD, Adobe Audition, Adobe After Effects, so you have really advanced Adobe applications which work in tandum which one another.

Let me know if you need any further help?

Thanks,

Leo 🙂

LEO BAKER
SYNC FILMS UK
Web: http://www.syncfilms.com
E-Mail: leo@syncfilms.com

[John Baum]

I recently switched from Vegas to PPro. Not because I wanted to. I just bought a whole new NLE setup based around the Decklink Extreme card since it now supports the latest version of vegas.Unfortunately the link between Vegas and the Decklink card seems “unfinished” to put it politely. I found it buggy and unstable beyond use for a production enviorement.
But I knew Decklink cards had been supporting PPro for some time and we had an old copy that only cost $200 to upgrade to the latest version(1.5). So I dove into Premiere.
At first it was a totally frustrating experiance as the interfaces and toolsets are structured very differently. But as I slowly figure out all the new shortcuts and get used to Premieres workflow I’m finding there are fewer differances in actual capabilities then I first thought.
The thing I miss the most so far from Vegas is the velocity envelopes, which allow you to keyframe clip speed right on the timeline.
The thing I like most about Premiers so far is cutting and pasting elements right into After Effects since I am the chief animation artist at our facility. So I do this alot. Huge time saver.
Vegas also started out as an audio editor so this is one thing it excels at. However, Premiere’s audio capabilities aren’t too bad and even with Vegas I still found the need to occasionally dump a track to Soundforge for fine surgery.
Basically , I think you will be satisfied with either one. Though there is no good hardware for Vegas if you want to work with something other then DV sources. Premiere’s workflow is also much more similar to Avid’s if you see youself ever moving in that direction.

[Tim Kolb]

Along with this input, you may want to check the copious links to archived discussions they supplied you with on the Vegas Forum…

Vegas has an advantage on a lesser system as it will run on probably the slimmest system of any NLE. PPro has the Adobe integrated workflow for visual effects work in AE, Photoshop, etc. and Vegas has great interaction on the audio side with Sound Forge and Acid…

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net