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Vegas Pro 11: Who is happy with it ?
Not looking to bait or troll but I was wondering what the state of play is.
Im currently using Pro 8 on an old XP machine that is getting replaced in the next month with an i7 2600K with all the bells and whistles.
Ive paid to upgrade from 8 to 9 then to 10 but never installed them due to time and the old “if it aint broke” thinking. Ive also seen more and more mention of problems with the newer versions and today I scanned this forum area and saw a TON of complaints.
What I want to do is ask if there are people who are completely happy with 11, who obviously havent needed to post about issues.
For me 8 has been good, though with projects of 45+ mins rendering out to MP4 does crash for no apparent reason now and again.
I dont want to drop a ton of cash on a speedy new PC with a fast GPU and spend to upgrade to 11 for it to fall over all the time, negating the whole upgrade process.
Thanks for any advice and info 🙂
Rik -
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I am completely satisfied with VP11. I have it installed on 2 machines, I keep them clean and have had no problems with it. One is an AMD Phenom running win7 and the other is an i7 with win7. I am slow to upgrade my “production” machine only because of some reports here.
Jeff
Windows 7 64-bit, ASUS P6X58D, i7 960 3.20GHz, 24.0GB DDR3, 12TB connected storage
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To be honest with you Rikki, i still use Vegas 10.0e
to handle all my paid projects.(and that is what iam
thoroughly happy using).Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I update my Vegas installation with every release and I am very pleased with it. It makes money for me every day.
Steve Mann
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Thanks for the replies folks.
I see what you’re saying about not putting it on a production machine but at the same time its a bit like buying a brand new limo but using your old limo for paid jobs – it kinda defeats the purpose.
I think I’ll get my new PC next month but keep a close eye on threads here and then dip my toe with 11 and see how it goes.
I love Vegas so I really dont want to swap (and thats the reason Im getting a new beefy PC instead of going Mac) 🙂
Thanks again for your replies,
Rik
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its a bit like buying a brand new limo but using your old limo for paid jobs – it kinda defeats the purpose.
You have a point yes, but i would not quite put it at that.
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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With the 595 build Sony just released, NewBlue Titler seems to FINALLY be useable. I tried it out last night and didn’t have a crash or lock up. So I’m trying it out on new projects occasionally, but it’s still got some features which are baffling.
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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Perhaps it’s my plugins (I’m still on very old 32-bit plugins), but on a clean new Win7 machine, V10 seems to crash way more than on my old XP machine. So I have 32-bit V11 also installed and when things go bad with the V10 veg, I start working with it in V11. At this point all new projects are V11.
My experience with the latest 32-bit build #594 of V11, it is more stable than V10. Certainly not as stable as V8, which I thought was VERY stable, but V8 can’t cut through h.264 at all. There are odd times that V11 will crash, but at least so far I don’t get the veg project in a state that it will crash just by playing the timeline like V10 can eventually do to me.
-Jim.
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I’m still thinking that Vegas11 has rendering problems. I’d hate to work a week on a show and then not be able to render it.
Has Sony corrected all those issues?
Roger -
Not ready to use Vegas 11 on my main edit bay as yet.
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956 -
Systems people can teach a lesson. They are not usually enamored with new software. They don’t put it into production until they are fairly sure that it will work reliably. You don’t risk your revenue stream on untested software, and software is a tool. A fancy new car is a toy.
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