[Luigi Perrotta]

Thank you Steve,

I am a musician, I edit music and playing around with Chroma key. I used Cakewalk and Sonar for many years, but I found it was easy to just work a project in Vegas Pro, I haven’t used Sonar for many years.

I downloaded the trial version of Vegas 18, I download the suite version to see if it was worth the extra money. Unfortunately I only see Vegas Pro 18 and not the Suite version.

I opened a ticket two weeks ago with Magix about the above problem and the Suite version, the program also crashed a few times and sent them the info.

As you can see from the answer above, Dimitri solved the problem with a simple answer. Magix pointed their finger to the PLUG-INN, I am confused, I waited two weeks for a simple answer and they couldn’t figure it out. Thanks to this Forum! I think some of you guys may know more than Magix and most of you are all willing to help!

[Luigi Perrotta]

Thank you Dimitrios,

It resolved the problem.
This forum gives more timely and better answers than Magix.
Yesterday, Magix answer was contact the third party company that made the effects.

Vegas 18 comes with sound forge 14, I noticed sound forge has more audio effects that are not visible from Vegas 18, they are called Core FX. Any way these effects can be used from Vegas PRO?

Vegas Pro has a great way to work audio, I feel it’s a lot of work to learn Sound Forge.

I use Vegas Pro 16 do you know if there is anything that Vegas Pro 18 can do that I can’t do with vegas pro 16?

Thank you again!

[Luigi Perrotta]

Why they, Magix, removed these options it’s crazy. Those options work. Now I am rendering in Vegas 16, rendering again in Vegas 12 to make a DVD in DVD Architect. There must be a better way of doing this by using Vegas 16 only.
No one else is having this problem, I guess it’s just me.

I make music DVD, the flat screen televisions don’t have powerful speakers, when I play the DVDs made in Vegas 16, with the volume all the way up the sound has no life.
When I play a DVD rendered in Vegas 12 with the volume half way up the DVD has a nice presence.

[Luigi Perrotta]

I don’t get it, is this something I can download and will work in Vegas 16? Please explain.

[Luigi Perrotta]

Thank you Edward,
These options are not available in my Vegas 16, they are available in Vegas 12 and I made a template years ago, they work well.
See the post above from Magix, they told me the options were removed since Vegas 14, they didn’t offer any solutions. I asked they refund me money I paid for the “upgrade” back. Since I purchased Vegas over 14 days ago they will not refund it. I asked them how they expect people to buy future upgrades if they remove options that worked and they don’t offer a fix. They just don’t answer.
As of now I need to go back to Vegas 12 to produce a DVD with a healthy volume.
In fairness they offer many Audio templates. I am trying a few to see if any work.

[Luigi Perrotta]

I would like to update the problem I am having with volume.
After I sent screen shots of my vegas 12 and 16 this is their answer: Hello

Thank you for your message.

The AC-3 Pro encoder was removed as a feature since VEGAS Pro 14 and going forward. VEGAS Pro still does contain the AC-3 Studio encoder as a feature.
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Thank you for contacting Magix Support.

Best regards,
Eric Dettman

MAGIX Software GmbH
Supportmanager

They don’t offer any solution. I requested the money back for the “upgrade”

Postfach 500109
01067 Dresden
Germany

[Luigi Perrotta]

Maybe as a musician I perceive the audio questions as volume as well as frequencies. The obvious should have been the headphone is right in the ear the speaker depends where is locate.

I used to mix audio on studio monitors, the sound was beautiful only to be disappointed when I heard the same sound on a flat screen TV or a laptop, The music had a very nice bass on the monitors when played on a laptop was like half the music was missing the music had no body and no volume.
I went out and got a very cheap computer’s speakers but even those cheap speakers were better than a laptop and a flat screen TV. So now I connected also a flat screen TV to my computer.
I drive myself crazy trying to get a decent sound from my TV and speakers!

Ciao

[Luigi Perrotta]

Thank you, that’s all I can do for now, I hope Magix will come up with a fix

[Luigi Perrotta]

I have a Presonus audio box 4 VSL it has different volume outputs.
I think the question was speakers VS headphones.
There is not a simple answer, the sound is going to be different, it depends from the fidelity of the speakers and headphones, it’s obvious that many headphones can’t reproduce the sound of a 15″ speakers.
I have 2 sets of monitors and a Television connected to my computer, I alternate. Usually when the sound is acceptable on my lousy television it is good on the other speakers as well or needs little adjustment.

I keep in mind how most people listen to my music.

[Luigi Perrotta]

Thank you Bernard,
I just rendered another DVD choosing the second option as you suggested, it didn’t work for me, I got the same results. I wish I could let you hear the difference of these two DVDs, it’s not a difference that you go back and forth to hear it, it is a definite difference, the one from Vegas 16 went directly in the garbage.

I did a simple test, I played the DVD that i rendered in Vegas 12 first, it sounded nice and clear. Then I inserted the DVD that I made with Vegas 16, without touching anything, I could barely hear it.

If it works for you I am glad it means that my version of Vegas 16 has something missing.

Maybe a member who has Vegas 12 and 16 version can try to see if they get the same results?

Now a new question comes up: Why I can customize a template in an old Vegas version and Vegas took away this great option in a new version?

Grazie
Gino