vegas vs premiere ??

[Sada]

I use them both—-(just loaded Premiere 2.0 on my computer). I think that most full fledged NLE’s pretty much do the same things. The only major differences are the way they do them. I know that Vegas has a demo version you can download and I think Premiere does too. Why not play with them and then make your decision.

[Edward Troxel]

Also, do a search. This question has been hashed over many times. (Naturally, in this forum you’ll find Vegas the preferred editor. In a Premiere forum, you’ll find it the preferred editor.)

Edward Troxel

[Mike Harper]

yes i expected them to be close i was wondering if there are any glaring diferences

Mike Harper
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[Yoyodyne]

Nancy sums it up but the basic argument for Vegas is;

Workflow, stability, easy, awesome audio tools, really fast, you can drop almost any kind of media on the timeline.

Hope this helps,

[Jeffrey F. krepner]

Mike, the biggest difference is the interface. On paper, they both do the same thing, Premiere might even “do” more. The Vegas interface is very free form, as an example. You can park the playback head and then grab a clip (called event in Vegas) and move it back and forth and see the preview. This comes in handy when synching up stuff. Also, since Vegas started life as an audio app, you can solo each track – thus muting all of the others. Audio and video tracks can be placed in any order, the last time I checked Premiere dived the timeline in half, bottom for sound and top for picture. Vegas allows sound to stay with the video (or moved way down below if you like them separate) which kicks butt when you are trying to add something with sound to a large complex project.

The trimmer window is really cool, you just highlight the section you like then drag it to the timeline. There’s just so much. I can’t edit on anything else anymore.

Also, the forums over at the Sony site are good too and this question comes up pretty often there as well.

Jeff

[Sada]

One thing I forgot—I have to give Vegas a big edge in multicam editing, do to the scripts by Ed and the guys over at Vaast. Premiere just added this feature and let me tell you, it is poorly designed—it takes too many steps to set up.

[Edward Troxel]

Someone posted the multi-cam steps over on another forum and my first thought was… Man I’m glad I’m using Excalibur on Vegas – much easier than that description!

Edward Troxel

[Sada]

I know, there is a tutorial over at DigitalVideo–it goes on for something like four pages whereas you can learn your application in about five minutes. Unbelievable—

[Allen Zagel]

Nancy
Could you post the link for that tutorial please?
Thanks
Allen

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