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You can have up to 4 audio and 4 video tracks on the consumer versions of Vegas and unlimited on Pro. Vegas supports plugins, transitions, markers and regions, it has great trimming tools, it allows you to mix different kinds of footage in one track (including pictures), it supports panning & cropping and motion tracking. I have written a crash course on Vegas here if you are interested in learning the basics in 5 minutes time. The heart of the editing process, the timeline, is a bit difficult to get into at first, but it becomes second nature after a while. When using plain DV footage, the RAM requirements were much smaller, below 1 GB. Premiere also used from the get-go about 1.2 GBs of RAM and about 1.6 GBs when some HDV footage was loaded, while Vegas was happy with 512 MBs of RAM on load, and up to 1 to 1.4 GBs when some HDV footage was placed in the timeline. For example, we found Premiere much slower than Vegas: slower to load and slower to operate.
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On the plus side, Vegas uses fewer resources than some of its main competitors.
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Vegas uses DirectX-9 hardware for basic acceleration, but no special hooks are used like other pro NLEs do with OpenGL. mov files (some digi-videocams shoot as such) are not ideal either in terms of editing speed. When using the “Best” preview quality, frame rate drops down to 10fps. I usually get about 27 frames out of 30 when playing back HDV on the preview window (using “preview” quality), which is good enough for editing. While our iMovie ’05 can playback 1080i footage real-time on a dual 1.2 Ghz G4 PPC, the same can’t be said about Vegas on a 3 Ghz hyperthreaded P4. One of the sticky point on Vegas is HD playback speed.
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Vegas has support for secondary monitors that can go full screen, but the preview window itself doesn’t (that would be a nice feature to have). The preview window allows you to playback and view the currently selected clip, selected track or the whole project.
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Reports for such support for Premiere Elements have been conflicting, while the rest of the consumer video editing applications like Ulead, Magix, iMovie and Movie Maker don’t support 24p at all (which is important if you are an owner of a recent Canon HD consumer camera). Vegas Movie Studio is perhaps the only NLE in the consumer market that supports 24p properly. Vegas supports a variety of audio formats too, including AAC, mp3, WAVE, OGG and the Pro version supports FLAC too. It couldn’t read our XViD/DivX files, but apparently it can export as such as long as an encoder is installed.

Vegas supports a variety of mpeg, h.264 and intermediate formats and it can also read codecs installed system-wide on Windows (I tried the popular open source intermediate codecs Huffyuv and Lagarith).

The first thing that a user must get right on Vegas is the project properties, which must reflect the source footage’s properties. As of this writing, the latest versions are 8.0c for the two consumer versions and 8.0a for the Pro version.Ī Vegas window consists of the timeline, the extra tools organized in a tab window format, the audio mixer, and the preview window. Prices range from $80 to $600 for the three products. NET/VB scripting, and the various exporting options. Other differences include the amount of A/V tracks allowed in the timeline, available plugins, editing picture quality (8bit vs 32bit). In simple terms, Movie Studio can only use DV-sized video, Platinum can deal with AVCHD/HDV-sized one (not full HD), and Pro can go full HD.

Sony Vegas comes in three flavors: Movie Studio (usually abbreviated as VMS among its users), Movie Studio Platinum (VMSP), and Pro. This is an introduction of the application and the features that sets it apart from all the rest. Vegas is one of the quickly rising video applications on the market today. After days of intense searching and testing last June, I decided on the Windows platform and Sony Vegas. Having this recent infatuation with video, I embarked on a trip in the video editor world for Mac, Windows and Linux a few months ago.
